The result had been expected, and while French stocks initially lurched lower, they eventually regained their footing.
Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, accused ETA of terrorist blackmail, while French Foreign Minister, Hubert Vedrine, said the move was ''deplorable''.
Adidas is now the subject of takeover rumours while French retailer PPR has built up a large stake in German sportswear firm Puma.
While French Axa has been pushing deeper into the US already by buying the portion of its Axa Financial which it did not already own.
Sixth seed Juan Martin del Potro eased past German Benjamin Becker 6-2 6-4 6-2, while French seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga battled to a straight-sets win over Japan's Go Soeda.
The president of Chad said Chadian troops killed the commander, while French military sources said earlier that Abou Zeid, a deputy leader of AQIM, was killed in an airstrike in Mali late last month.
Barcelona are travelling 450 miles by coach over two days to Italy for Tuesday's first leg against Inter Milan, while French side Lyon will make a 360-mile road trip for their tie at Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
They will need airlift help -- which has been promised by the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany, and in which the United States conceivably could participate -- and are likely to be deployed in a holding role while French and Malian forces push north.
While French government bonds suffered with the market jitters surrounding Spain earlier this week, the premium above German bunds that France pays to borrow money is well below levels seen at the peak of financial stress last year, and French bonds have remained relatively steady.
When the French journalist Alexis de Toqueville visited America early in the republic, he noted that, while the French revolution had been about equality, the American revolution was to win liberty.
While the French were trading with the Innu, the English made alliances with an indigenous American league of nations, the Iroquois.
The UK's FTSE 100 closed 8.9% down, while the French Cac lost 7.7% and German Dax dropped 8.4%.
And while the French painter was painting these happy, pretty pictures, his contemporaries were dismantling art and inventing cubism.
German banks fuelled Spain's property boom, while their French peers funded Greece's borrowing.
The Greek contagion has already made insolvent the Greek banks, while 3 French banks may have their credit ratings reduced.
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The Americans want one soon, while the French are in no hurry.
Alonso, a two-time world champion with Renault, finished fifth in the drivers' standings, while the French team were fourth in the constructors' championship.
While reading French and German at New College, Oxford, his fondness for Abba and the Bee Gees did not mark him out as a satirist.
In the European Union, surveys released Friday show that Germans and Italians are more pessimistic about their economies, while the French are a bit more upbeat.
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With the blessing of the United States, Britain's Aldermaston research establishment will concentrate on developing technology, while its French counterpart at Valduc will carry out simulated warhead testing.
In the economic crisis that followed the quadrupling of the price of oil, the British unit sank deeply into the red while the French operation was only marginally profitable.
Former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, from Denmark, faces a tricky opening encounter against Sabine Lisicki while 2010 French Open winner Francesca Schiavone plays 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova.
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Americans usually take her advice, noted Ms. De Barros, while the French tend to order from the list: "French people don't like to be told what to do, " she said.
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The drop in the average index was broadly in line with expectations, but the German index fell by less than expected, while the French and Italian indices fell by more.
In Germany, the DAX 30 index added 1.8% to 6539.85 in Germany, while the French CAC 40 index rose 1.5% to 3363.23 and London's FTSE 100 moved 1.3% higher to 5795.20.
Chinese and Southeast Asian investment banks are fighting especially hard for market share, while some French banks are switching their focus to Asian bond markets, away from Europe where activity is slow.
But while many French people agree Chirac was an energetic and effective leader on the world stage, they say he was indecisive and weak when it came to enacting reforms at home.
While the French media are not allowed to reveal the name of the winner before 8.00 pm that evening, social media by then will probably have had the news posted for over an hour.
One implication of this is that while the French military may have scored impressive short term success, AQIM and its allies will almost certainly be back to try to re-implement the plan at a later date.
French officials say Google, Amazon (AMZN), Apple and Facebook (FB) are able to sell to French consumers while not paying the 19.6 percent French VAT.
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