It was just before ten-thirty, in the darkness close to the French coast, that Ellen MacArthur made history.
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"The French coast there is extraordinary tidal, I can't imagine people coming in the winter at all, " he said.
British fishermen claim their French counterparts fired flares and hurled rocks at them in a spat over the right to trawl for scallops off the French coast.
Traditionally, every fall along the marshes of Noirmoutier, a tiny island on the French coast, young women would gently rake a thin, white film that forms atop the water.
However, before he was demobbed, he was drafted on duty aboard another mine sweeper with responsibility for clearing the inshore minefields between Boulogne and Dieppe off the French coast.
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For this D-Day anniversary, standing shoulder to shoulder with the stumbling Gordon Brown, he spoke of "the sheer improbability of this victory, " in which American, British and Canadian forces won a beachhead in 1944 on the French coast.
At the centre of the two wings will be a first floor viewing area and balcony with views across the Channel to the French coast, from where the Luftwaffe would have appeared in the summer and early autumn of 1940.
Mr Blunkett said that the new system should send a message to the world that Britain is not open to abuse, and try to deter refugees at the notorious Sangatte camp near the French coast from risking the trip across.
The enormous shroud of fine mineral dust particles now stretches from the Arctic Circle in the north to the French Mediterranean coast in the south, and from Spain into Russia.
The shirts were tieless, the iPads abundant and the language a blend of French and West Coast.
Still, the maritime community greatly appreciates the work of coalition, U.S. Navy, NATO, French and Yemeni coast guard vessels that were helping to deter some would-be attackers.
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was secretly arrested, wrongfully convicted by a court martial of high treason, sentenced to life imprisonment, stripped of his military rank and shipped off in chains to solitary confinement in the sweltering heat of Devil's Island, a French territory off the coast of South America.
These two islands are a Gallic aberration in North America, an honest-to-goodness French department in the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland, where you pay with euros and connect your calls through French telecom services, but with a bit of Canadian bonhomie thrown in.
It was seized and then burned by French sailors off the Scottish coast in 1692.
Militia groups in Ivory Coast turned against French citizens 10 years ago when France was then seen as interfering in the country's affairs.
In late May, when the Grand Prix is in town, most of them leg it down the coast to their French Riviera weekend houses.
The decision to resume the Nautile's operation came as fresh incidences of pollution were reported on the coast of the French region of Brittany.
And one could say the same for the French positions in Libyan, Ivory Coast or Syrian crisis.
"That's the mission we want fulfilled and the satellite we will launch will be one major step towards that mission, " he said during a visit to Ariane's launch center in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America, late last month.
In 1491, Jacques Cartier, the French navigator who explored the North American coast and the St.
"Jose Nagbe, " like many of you, noted that a shared French heritage links Canada and the Ivory Coast.
Such a scenario was played out recently in the Comoro islands, a former French colony off Africa's east coast.
The French trawler found his body off the coast of Newhaven and a DNA profile was taken in April 2011.
And just as President Sarkozy and I have honored those who fell at Normandy, let it also be remembered that American and free French forces stormed the beaches of this southern coast.
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The nuances are still there, but are reflected less in the words but the rhythm and intonation of sentences - the west coast "n'at" - stems principally from Gaelic, whereas the east coast "ken" from the French.
Last week, a French-owned ship seized by pirates off Ivory Coast was freed.
But this week, French and Chinese destroyers staged joint manoeuvres off the Chinese coast, the Chinese navy's biggest ever with a foreign country, according to the Chinese press.
During our conversation the manager explained he was born and raised on the large island of Madagascar (where French, English and Malagasy languages are spoken), off the southeastern coast of Africa, and later attended a Paris university before joining the U.S. chip firm.
The city, on India's southeast coast, is unique in that it was once colonized by the French and still has a notable French presence.
Speaking from the French Quarter of New Orleans, the president outlined a number of federal programs to rebuild the Gulf Coast.
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