As Eleanor Beardsley reports from Paris, these new owners are helping to preserve a French tradition.
The French tradition of rebellion reaches way back, past 1789 to the 1358 Jacquerie revolt, and beyond.
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Equitation in the French tradition is a school of horseback riding that emphasizes harmonious relations between humans and horses.
Massachusetts has a number of families, for example, from the French tradition.
But Mr. Hollande has firmly rebuffed his offers, citing the French tradition of holding just one debate between the two rounds of presidential elections.
For all the power of the elite and the poverty of the magistrates, the corrupt practices of French tradition are becoming ever harder to maintain.
The French tradition is that the benefits are an unconditional right.
This is because in the French tradition, they would drape hugely expensive white linen damask over a simple walnut table and place a silver mirror on top.
Though he had dedicated himself to "making clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition, " he still felt that he had become a "society designer, " to his disappointment.
In some ways, indeed, Mr Sarkozy is simply returning to French interventionist tradition, with the economic crisis providing a ready excuse.
In their common sense of French decline, however, which has a long tradition in French writing, they share a bleakness that has struck a chord in contemporary France.
In Sullivan's day, American architectural studies were dominated by the French Beaux-Arts tradition, and particularly by Viollet-le-Duc's romantic rationalism.
Hence, on March 9th, some 15, 000 protesters followed the long-established tradition of disgruntled French people by taking to the streets.
The big Australian winemakers, such as Southcorp, scientifically classify, grade and blend grapes from various regions in a way that would make the tradition-bound French choke.
"Keep in mind that he comes out of the tradition of (French author) Jules Verne, whose characters are always traveling around the world and finding lost civilizations and incredible ruins, " he continued.
French kids with an entire national tradition of great cinema are instead obsessed with "South Park" (Eric Cartman's face is more ubiquitous in the French countryside than bitter, entitled-feeling farmers).
Whereas French and Italian fashion students labour under the deadweight of tradition and past glory, she says, British students are encouraged to be individualistic.
By tradition, though not by explicit constitutional diktat, foreign policy is the French president's preserve.
One reason is their century-old secular tradition, which fiercely defends the separation of faith and state, and makes most French people uneasy about conspicuous religion.
Which helps to explain the weaker tradition of public stock ownership in Europe: As of 1999 less than 10% of the German and French population owned individual stocks, compared with 21% in the U.S. But as state-owned companies and pension funds are privatized, more companies issue stock options and cross-border investments increase, equities are the order of the day.
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