Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in sixteen-oh-nine.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

Sebastien Galy is senior currency strategist for the French bank BNP Paribas.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

One of her first jobs for the magazine was a series of stories about the life of the French Emperor Napoleon.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

The American,British and French leaders announced that Iran has been secretly building a second enrichment center for several years.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

Pete Yorn says the idea for the album was based on the songs of French entertainer Serge Gainsbourg and actress Brigitte Bardot.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

For example, the French artists Honore Daumier and later Henri Toulouse Lautrec were masters of this process.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

And French President Nicholas Sarkozy has decided to return France to NATO's military command for the first time in more than forty years.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

A French historian and political leader, Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, had the idea for the statue.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The French painter Henri Matisse is known for his use of bright colors and expressive forms.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

It started when Louisiana printed notes with the French word for "ten" on them.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

In eighteen seventy-five, the French established an organization to raise money for Bartholdi's creation.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The French band Phoenix won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

"Petit" -- p-e-t-i-t comes from the French word for small.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Luge comes from the French word for sled.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The French are famous for their food.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

That has prompted a call from the French government for these universities to institute new admissions procedures favoring underprivileged students.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The two telescopes are being launched from French Guyana for a total cost of more than $2 billion.

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

For their part, the squatters hope to take advantage of a French law preventing authorities from evicting tenants during the winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Then Mr.Obama heads to the French-German border for a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

All the more reason, Cwajgenbaum says, for a film like La Rafle - so French and Europeans do not forget the Holocaust's lessons.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10