Bergkamp and his Arsenal strike-partner Marc Overmars should also be on their way to France.
Mrs Thatcher wrote that one Peruvian ship had been sent away from France empty, but another ship was on its way to France to take delivery of weapons - Peru was protesting to France about a breach of contract.
Tony Judt, a scholar at New York University who has written widely on modern French culture and ideas, suggests that one useful way to take writing about France by foreigners is to stand it on its head.
America isn't a country united by ethnicity the way, say, Japan is, the way France used to be before immigrants from former colonies made its population more diverse.
The three-way struggle to form France's largest bank looks likely to chunter on all summer.
Recorders from the doomed plane, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009 on its way from Brazil to France, were found amid the wreckage last week after almost two years on the sea bed.
The structural engineer and designer had completed a business trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was flying to Paris, France, on his way back to their home in Whitby, North Yorkshire, near England's northeast coast.
Given the constraints of international finance and economic structures, observers say that if Hollande is elected president he will not really have the room to maneuver to radically shift France to the left the way his Socialist predecessor Francois Mitterrand did three decades ago.
Or to put it another way, unless a country like France is prepared to make a much greater sacrifice (for the good of the currency union) of its own government's budget-making powers than it currently seems prepared to do, it is quite hard to paint a rosy picture for the eurozone.
Marie-Eve Fleuchey, who moved to Cork from France, said swing became a way to settle into her new home.
They have quickly captured 15% of the market, second to France and way ahead of California.
The intervention in Libya therefore is a way to reassert to Europe, but particularly to Germany, that France still leads the Continent on foreign and military affairs.
Assisted reproduction is considered in France only as a way to treat the medical condition of infertility.
Now the race is down to two candidates, will this type of tub thumping give way to a more reasoned debate about whether France can still afford its way of life?
The son of a Hungarian immigrant, who did not go to one of France's elite schools, Sarkozy had to fight his way to the top of politics by sheer strength of will.
The institute's director Zuhair Mahmood says it is up to both sides - France and the nations' Muslims - to find a comfortable way to co-exist.
In 2003, when The Associated Press first dispatched me to the Tour de France to cover a guy from Texas who was on his way to becoming the race's most successful champion, I never imagined for one moment that a decade later I'd be waiting to hear him say that we all should have stayed home.
This assumes that all newcomers adapt to France, not the other way round.
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There is, however, growing resentment towards the way France and Germany between them appear to decide the future of the eurozone.
On his way to the 65th D-Day commemorations in France, President Obama plans a curious stop-over in Germany, my home country.
He made his way, at the age of nine, to France to join his two brothers, and worked in Paris as a chimney sweep and paper boy.
INSEAD, the highly respected French university based in Fontainebleau, France, is well on its way to global dominance with the continuing success of its Asian campus in Singapore.
But so will his enthusiasm for the UK and the rest of Europe to take the lead in some parts of the world, with Libya as a precise example of the way he is thinking - France and the UK to the fore of military action, the US deliberately hanging back.
The conviction among the French elite that France represents an alternative to the American way runs deep.
"I don't want the European Union to be something where France is pulling its way, Germany its way and Poland and others another way, " he said.
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To put it another way: Italy, Spain and France can manage their respective fiscal affairs as prudently as they like, but there are - in Turner's view - bigger risks in lending to each of them than to governments of comparable economies outside the eurozone.
Polanski was arrested in September on his way from France, where he has lived for decades, to the Zurich Film Festival, where he was to collect an award for lifetime achievement.
Against France and Wales, they attempted to barnstorm their way up field with limited success.
Germany has worked to keep France appraised of the reforms every step of the way, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel huddling with Sarkozy before every major decision.
The obvious way, apart from improving the efficiency of the tax office, to lower France's high rates of income tax would be to broaden the tax net.
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