At the beginning of February Louis Vuitton moet Hennessy, the French luxury-goods empire, reported flat profits for last year.

在二月初，法国奢侈品生产帝国路易·威登·轩尼诗发布年报，显示出其去年利润平平。

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The British empire became the global superpower of the 19th century. And the world speaks English, not French.

大英帝国成了十九世纪的全球超级大国，现在全球都在说英语，而不是法语。

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After briefly being incorporated in the First French Empire under Napoleon, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815, consisting of the present day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

在拿破仑的统治下，荷兰曾一度并入法兰西第一帝国，1815年荷兰王国成立，由今天的荷兰、比利时和卢森堡组成。

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Both during the post-World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire and with the breakup of the British and French empires after World War II, British and French imperial authorities colluded with Arab imperialists to guarantee the latter's nearly uninhibited control over the Middle East.

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The history prize went to Frederik Logevall for "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " about Vietnam under the French.

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However, the rise of the celebrity press in France since the introduction in 2005 of magazines such as Closer, -- the French edition is published by Italian company Mondadori, part of the Berlusconi empire -- has proved that French readers have a taste for gossip too.

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