That led many experts to tip Ferrero to steal Kuerten's French Open crown, but the Brazilian was in unstoppable form when the pair met in the semi-final for the second straight year.
With polls showing the public evenly divided on the constitution, the French government feared that ratification of the services directive could tip the referendum outcome towards a Non.
It's hard to imagine many famous French faces without a haze of cigarette smoke - (unintelligible) Belmondo, Bardot, Sartre and Jeanne Moreau, holding their cigarette - French word by the way - aloft and pursed in your lips to make the tip of the cigarette smolder.