Other French firms fall under a territorial tax system, in which foreign subsidiaries are taxed by the country where they are based.
More bizarre terms like "fear of belly button lint" and "fear of the French people" fall farther down the list.
According to their simulation, French output would fall by more than 2%.
The exchange of letters has been played out on a broader landscape of rising unemployment and fears that French industry will fall further behind as its economy slumps.
On the Eurofighter deal, despite the somewhat optimistic briefing, the prime minister will simply remind his Indian counterpart that the European offer stands if the French bid were to fall through.
Despite a 1.1% increase in French, there has been a fall of 5.5% in applications to teach German.
Because it recognises that young French Muslims are bumping against the limits of the integrationist model, the French government frets that they will fall prey to extremists.
Denis, where the intrepid detective, gourmet cook and hunter makes readers fall in love with the French kitchen.
By 2008 look for it to fall another 7% as younger French drinkers switch to beer and spirits for their joie de vivre.
Pierre Aidenbaum, who personally welcomed the participants and encouraged their discussion of this topic - one made all the more urgent in light of the recent, destructive riots in the French capital and elsewhere in the country during the Fall of 2005 and violent manifestations of rising anti-semitism in Western Europe.
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French media and telecoms giant Vivendi has seen its profits fall, but its results still beat analysts' forecasts.
They fell more than 2% to FF12.10 in early trading on the French stockmarket on Wednesday on top of a 3% fall on Tuesday.
Sixties legends The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are also in the running - although the Fab Four's All You Need Is Love may fall foul of its opening blast of the French Marseillaise.
After the fall of France in 1940, Mrs Wake became a French Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy - setting up escape routes and sabotaging German installations, saving hundreds of Allied lives.
French and German have been hit particularly hard, with a 30% fall in two years.
The announcement came as it reported a 50% fall in net profits in the first quarter due to the weak French economy.
Credit default swaps for a number of French banks, for instance, are costing more than they did in the fall of 2008.
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.
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).
In the fall-out between George Bush and Jacques Chirac a year ago, French-bashing in America turned harsh.
However, the biggest single lesson from the French and Dutch referendums is the pressing need to get Europe's economies to grow and European unemployment to fall.
The history prize went to Frederik Logevall for "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " about Vietnam under the French.
"We must stop the rebels' offensive, otherwise the whole of Mali will fall into their hands -- creating a threat for Africa and even for Europe, " said the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius.
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