Even the fall of France in May 1940 failed to awaken us.

一九四〇年五月法国的沦陷，犹未使我们惊醒。

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After the fall of Rome, the first European society to regulate behaviour in private life in accordance with a complicated code of etiquette was twelfth-century Provence, in France.

罗马帝国灭亡后，在欧洲，第一个按照复杂的礼节规范私人生活行为的社会，是12世纪法国的普罗旺斯。

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Whereas legal downloads have compensated for around 40% of the fall in CD sales in recent years in America and Britain, in France they have made up for only 19% of the drop.

近几年美国和英国的合法下载大约弥补了40%的CD销售额下降，可法国仅弥补了19%的下降。

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After the fall of France in 1940, Mrs Wake became a French Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy - setting up escape routes and sabotaging German installations, saving hundreds of Allied lives.

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Of course you can always fall for rural France in the traditional way - through the prism of hotels, restaurants and the windows of a car or TGV - but the options for visiting the countryside are so diverse it is a shame not to add a twist of authenticity to a trip.

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The prospect of another heavy fall seems inconceivable for France and Germany.

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