AXA, an insurance giant, and Jean-Pierre Jouyet, ex-head of the French Treasury and now head of Barclays France.
Earlier this year, Mr Sarkozy dropped in on angry fishermen in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, and promised a thorough review of European Union fishing quotas during the French presidency of the EU. France gives up this position at the end of December, yet nothing of the sort has happened.
But collectively, they represent Spain like a box of french fries represents France.
Patrice Hagelauer, the technical director of the French Tennis Federation, said France is in the process of devaluing rankings for young players.
It is true that the surviving evidence of an intensely religious society is impressive: the superb gothic cathedrals of the 13th century, the fine poetry of the French and German epics, the leading universities of France, England and Italy, a whole world of sculpture and manuscript painting.
David Macey's life of Fanon provides, as background, an excellent guide to the history of French decolonisation and the intellectual debates of post-war France.
Bernard Squarcini, head of French intelligence, says France is al-Qaeda's second biggest target after America.
No one on either the British or the French side seriously thought of occupying France or Britain.
It was taken there by members of the former Italian and French royal house of Savoy who originally acquired it in France in the belief that it had been brought to Europe by returning Crusaders.
And speaking on a visit to the United Arab Emirates, French President Francois Hollande said the number of French troops deployed would increase "so that France can make way as quickly as possible" for an African force.
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 April 2011, he launched a controversial public debate on the practice of Islam in secular France, saying many French people were concerned by the "failures of integration".
The arrests are part of a wider French inquiry into the deaths of at least four people in France from variant CJD that is passed onto humans by eating beef.
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.
Online, she found a 2011 article from the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester describing Mann's being named a knight of the French Legion of Honor, a gesture bestowed by the French government to thank the veterans who helped liberate France.
Eurotunnel said that its purchase of Sea France's assets followed the decision of a French court.
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Another reason why French companies in aggregate have not done so well in China, says Wang Jiann-Yuh, director-general of the France-China Committee, part of MEDEF, the French employer's union, is that French businesspeople can be impatient, sometimes arrogant, and overly focused on short-term results.
Like many French of his generation he was appalled by France's quick defeat, but was equally defensive of France's greatness.
Due to Betancourt's French citizenship, the newly elected President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, is already involved in the cas e.
Some 63% of respondents to one French poll say France is the most exposed country to contagion from Greece, after Spain and Portugal.
The message could not be clearer: The number of requests by French citizens to leave France are suddenly up by 400 to 500 percent.
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About 24% of the general adult population of France possesses an E-4, but only 10% of French centenarians do.
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The NRC's last new reactor approval predates Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, all of which dented public support (and not just in America either: nuclear power supplies three-fourths of France's electricity, yet in one poll 57% of French respondents favoured abandoning it).
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Vietnam has turned down a request to scatter the ashes of a French war veteran at the site of a battle which helped end colonial rule by France.
The French Transport Ministry has kept the rest of Air France's fleet of Concordes grounded until more is known about what caused the crash.
This is the moment when General de Gaulle restored the pride of France, the moment he created the founding myth of the post war French republic.
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 European Court of Human Rights says France violated freedom of expression by fining a man for insulting former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
But the man who had been expected to succeed him, Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of the French central bank, is caught up in a trial relating to the collapse of one of France's largest banks.
No list of French dividend stocks would be complete without mentioning France Telecom SA (FTE).
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