He continued his war with the French over nuclear testing, again visiting Mururoa.
Indeed, perhaps the surprise is that the victory of French over the dialects was not completed more quickly: in the 1850s, one in five Frenchmen still could not speak French.
Harder for the Germans to take was their treatment by the British and French over the Rambouillet conference, which began work in February to try to find a political solution for Kosovo.
It barely matters that her promise is, as some Socialists are hinting, just an electoral ploy meant to paper over divisions in the French left over Europe.
At one point in a show down among the English and French central bankers over French recovery from the war, the French central banker threatened to redeem its reserves in pound sterling back into gold, as the English went back on the gold standard a few years earlier.
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The rift between the American and French governments over the Iraq war and the anti-French sentiment it generated ravaged sales of BPDR wines by an acknowledged 30% in the U.S. through May.
The spreads, or gap of U.K. government debt over similar German debt has widened less than the spread of French debt over German paper.
Obviously, our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims and to the French people over this incident.
But as the fears of a Eurozone breakup recede with each passing day, I expect investors to warm to French stocks over the course of 2013.
The French fork over more than 20% of their income in taxes for public coverage (and another 2.5% to purchase supplemental private coverage)--yet their public program suffers from chronic deficits.
Medals awarded to a World War II pilot who risked his life to drop the French Tricolour over the Arc de Triomphe in occupied Paris in 1942 are being auctioned.
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Mr Kerry's knowledge of French prompted scorn from the right-wing US press during his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2004, due to the souring of US-French ties over the war in Iraq.
LUXEMBOURG, October 7, 2011-(NASDAQ: AMZN)- Amazon.fr today launched the French Kindle Store offering customers a vast selection of over 35, 000 French-language Kindle books, all 28 L'Express best sellers available in digital-the most in France-hundreds of popular graphic novels and over 4, 000 free classics in French.
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The spat has been front page news in France and caused lots of discussion over "le French bashing" on social media over the past few days.
There will be many women left confused and worried about latest developments over French breast implants.
Sam Stosur rounded off Tuesday's play with a 6-4 6-4 win over French Open champion Francesca Schiavone.
Quins, fresh from back-to-back victories over French giants Stade Francais in the Heineken Cup, appeared in control at half-time.
The 25-year-old cruised into his eighth successive Monte Carlo final with a 6-4 6-4 win over French ninth seed Gilles Simon.
In June Wendel found itself under investigation by the French stockmarket regulator over the timing of its purchases of Saint-Gobain's shares.
Sarries earned a bonus point as they scored four tries in a 36-0 win over French side Bayonne at Vicarage Road.
The St Petersburg city government is negotiating with Accor, a French group, over the management of three municipally owned mid-range tourist hotels.
Now, there is even more anger in Germany over French attempts to stop Siemens, the German industrial giant, buying parts of Alstom, the near-bankrupt French engineering group.
The French company owns over 60 percent of Activision, and it has been widely speculated for quite some time that Vivendi is looking to sell its stake.
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In that year 23, 000 British soldiers were hospitalised for treatment and the French government reported over a million cases of syphilis or gonorrhoea since the start of the war.
In 1557, the French army lost over 14, 000 men when they tried to block a Spanish army under Count Egmont at the Battle of Saint Quentin in the Spanish-French Wars.
Two free kick goals from Gareth Bale -- the second in the last ten seconds of the match -- helped Tottenham to a 2-1 victory over French side Lyon in London.
The Argentina star had been on target in PSG's 3-1 French Cup win over the same opponents last week and the result never looked being any different despite Toulouse's home advantage.
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Given the French general wariness over new technology and its potentially disruptive impacts I do rather like the fact that it all happened in a part of France that you cannot get to from France.
The American gold rush at SW19 continued Saturday as brothers Bob and Mike Bryan won their first Olympic title with a 6-4 7-6 victory over French second seeds Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra in the men's doubles final.
The Blues - born out of the venerable Cardiff club when Welsh rugby moved to the regional model - went into the game chasing silverware on two fronts following last weekend's Heineken Cup quarter-final win over French aristocrats Toulouse.
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