"But Shanghai has always been known as the 'Paris of the East' and, even before that, the city was important in terms of trade, " he said.
"He appears to have drifted into a parallel world where he picked and chose elements to build himself a new identity, " said Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor in the Middle East department at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
Click on Instagram feeds for any of the women, and you'll see a cheery array of photographs from their rounds in Paris and the Middle East.
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At the onset of the unrest in the Middle East, Paris stalled on recognizing the protesters as legitimate.
It went under the hammer in Fontainebleau, south-east of Paris, at 10 times the initial estimate.
Mr Perben said the Muslim scarf, worn by the juror at a trial in Bobigny, north-east of Paris, was contrary to the principle of impartiality.
But in a world of intense competition from the booming cities of the East, as well as the more familiar rivalries with the likes of Paris and New York, London cannot rely on its inherent strengths alone.
The brightly-coloured Hi-Matic hotel in the east of Paris, which opened in 2011, also has a designer decor and a focus on being environmentally conscious.
Long after navigators from every corner of the globe had accepted it, the French continued using their own - the Paris Merdien, about two degrees east of Greenwich and nine minutes and twenty two seconds ahead of it.
As ambassador, her fluent French, hard work and access to the highest officials in Washington and Paris eased the sting of such contentious Franco-American issues as NATO expansion and differences over the Middle East, U.N. leadership and trade.
Third, the assumption that Paris has been displaced as the cultural capital of the world looks even more questionable if we look east rather than west.
More than 100 rescue workers, firefighters, sniffer-dog squads and bomb and gas experts were deployed to the gutted building in a subsidized housing complex in the city of Reims, east of Paris, officials said.
Her character robs banks, shoots a Paris policeman, and escapes to East Germany, where she enjoys the protection of an intelligence operative (Martin Wuttke) and winds up in a dreary textile plant, cast among women who are dying to get to the West.
The children also made a model of East Dorset's Charles Bennett who took part in the 1900 Paris Olympic Games.
For example, when the Bank of England began to tighten slightly its oversight of Moscow Narodny Bank in London after 1986, the USSR simply moved at least a portion of its more risque banking activities to Eurobank in Paris and East-West United Bank in Luxembourg where regulatory officials were more laissez-faire.
For example, when the Bank of England began to tighten slightly its oversight of Moscow Narodny Bank in London after 1986, the USSR simply moved at least a portion of its more risque banking activities to Eurobank in Paris and East-West United Bank in Luxembourg -- where regulatory officials were more laissez-faire.
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