Lawmakers from the opposition Socialist Party in France have called for a parliamentary inquiry into any role the French government might have played in facilitating Amesys's sale of equipment to Libya.
Since the EFSF depends partly on France for its own credit rating, a French downgrade could undermine the rescue fund just when it is most needed.
France hopes the latest European financing for African troops will allow French troops to take a more supporting role in the campaign.
The three-day summit hosted by France provided the first opportunity for some of the leaders - notably the US and French presidents - to meet since sharp differences developed over military action in Iraq.
The request was made over a year ago by the French authorities with respect to concerts the performer headlined in France for the tax years 2009 and 2010.
Although the 1960s might seem to have been an exhilarating time for France, there is little evidence that most ordinary French people shared the Gaullist view of history, destiny and all that.
Patrice Hagelauer, the technical director of the French Tennis Federation, said France is in the process of devaluing rankings for young players.
At the time, Mr Gilliland was spending Christmas at the French Centre, a study centre in France which was bought by the trust for pupils to visit.
But Henry was no match for the French king, who introduced France's first standing army in 1445, and ultimately crushed the overstretched English within a little over two years.
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America's collective intrigue with boeuf bourguignon can be nearly single-handedly credited to the food legend whose 1961 tome "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" held rhapsodic praise for the stew that she encountered when living in France.
Mitterrand, who served as president of France for 14 years, will be buried Thursday, but the French have already begun dissecting his past.
In 1870, after France's defeat by Germany, there were calls for the French to produce more children, to overcome the nation's supposed demographic weakness.
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As Zidane struggles for fitness, France team-mate David Trezeguet claims the inspirational French midfielder had injury worries before the friendly with South Korea.
In September, the Merc will switch on an electronic after-hours trading system developed in France, and next year the French will adopt Merc technology for settling trades.
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This week it said operating profits for the first six months of the year would fall by 23%, mainly due to an abysmal performance in French hypermarkets (France accounts for 44% of the group's sales).
France, for example, never imagined that French would cease to be the international language of diplomacy and business.
Realistically, Johnson expects to be going to the Stade de France to face a French side going for a Grand Slam but he remains convinced that could play into England's hands.
France, for example, could never imagine that French would cease to be the international language of diplomacy and business.
For France, another chunk of la Francophonie - of French influence in the world - was disappearing beneath the unstoppable advance of the Anglo-Saxons.
Prussia smashed France in 1870, annexing critical French territory for security reasons, but that sowed the seeds for the First World War.
The satellite built in collaboration with France will carry two climate tools developed for analysing ocean current and sea surface heights by the French space agency CNES, reports say.
Her examples included the inspiration behind California cuisine, the reasons fewer chefs are going to France for training, and her decision to change the name of her cooking school from the French Culinary Institute.
Rolf Breuer, chairman of mighty Deutsche Bank, has resorted to opening a small chain of banks in France, because the French government has told him it would not welcome a bid for one of the big banks.
But then he does something unique in the world: While the rums start in the traditional fashion, produced in local distilleries and barrel-aged in the tropical sun, they are plucked from their country of origin at just the right moment and brought to the Ferrand estate in France, where they are refined for several more months in small French oak Ferrand cognac barrels.
Finance Minister Francois Baroin, in an interview Saturday for French television network i-tele, said France had "full confidence" in the strength of the U.S. economy.
France's antipathy for the deal may have mellowed into a typical Gallic shrug: On Thursday, French Finance Minister Thierry Breton said shareholders, not governments, would decide the outcome.
According to military records, Joyeuse worked for the OSS but was officially a member of the Free French Forces, enlisting after France's surrender to Germany in 1940.
The state of public opinion in France, where 18% of the votes were recently cast for a xenophobe for president, suggests that the French might give a resounding no.
In 2001, when the total number of cinema admissions in France was up 11% on the previous year, over two-fifths of those tickets were for French films, up from 29% in 2000, and the highest proportion for 16 years.
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