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The French president said Monday that China was "one of the greats of the world" and that he "always thought there was only one China. "

Then the French company reduced its price for the land and building rights in Panama. It decided some money was better than no money at all.

The French accident investigators said this was an extremely difficult crash to understand.

The Italians are particularly unhappy with the French who've been blocking hundreds of the migrants trying to cross the border from Italy.

We are ready to work with the French side to push forward the bilateral relations on the track of sound and stable development.

Nominally a captain in the French navy, Cousteau spent most of his working life pioneering a new form of celebrity, that of the TV explorer.

America's General Mills seems to have got Yoplait instead and the French government partly blames Lactalis and its tactics.

When Chairman Mao was asked what he thought of the French Revolution, he said it was too early to say.

A spokeswoman for the French company Alstom declined to comment, citing the 'sensitive nature' of the subject.

What he argued was that the Germans had a primordial spirit that was in some sense different from that of the French.

Clay obviously is a little bit of a different story. But still also there I gave myself a chance to win the French.

Defending the Colonies against attack by the French and others had cost the British a great deal of money.

He began to suspect that Fayed was rehearsing him for his meeting with the French investigating magistrate.

A bit like the U. S. culture of the Statue of Liberty, the French culture of the La Marseillaise.

In the next cottage there was the French colonel, who had been taken prisoner by the dragoons .

In recent years, the Germans seem to have lost interest in their cartographical past and the French have never really cared.

of fairy tales at a time when you've got the French romping all over the place, trying to enlighten the superstitious Germans.

The French Concession was a short taxi ride from the hotel, and an amazing section of the city we did not see on our tour.

Then he carefully counted out the French fries, divided them in two piles and placed one pile in front of his wife.

We wondered why she had not struck at the moment of the French collapse.

The office of the French presidency says President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Cecilia, have divorced by mutual consent.

one of his books is a bitter attack on the french academy , to which he never belonged.

The French warplane was sent to the area after news emerged of a large convoy of up to 80 vehicles trying to flee Sirte, he said.

After all, the French have a sense of humor. Perhaps the judge, when he heard Fillmore's side of the story, would absolve him from marriage.

My dream is all pursues advanced studies to the French Paris -- world art, I continuously am going forward in this direction!

Indeed, he says he is proud of having "sheltered" the French from the sort of painful cuts other leaders have had to make.

"I've had enough of hearing that the French do not learn English, " he said. "It's a big disadvantage for international competition. "

And though he received less (and less fawning) coverage, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, proved to be a bit of a seducer himself.

All the French clubs have come to see him, notably PSG, and a lot of foreign teams are also following him.

A person close to the French company said the CIC deal would be "a tremendous leg up in China" .

What many people don't realize is how much the French language has influenced English.

The French student worked as an intern in a Shanghai company, said the court.

In the nights the French dispersed to get round the Russians, hid themselves in the woods, and all that could struggled on again.

Tale of Two cities is Dickens' tale of London and Paris leading up to, and during, the dramatic upheavals of the French Revolution.

Watching the news from across the channel, the French are also changing their recent perceptions of the British psyche.

This infuriated locals and tourists, who accuse the French president and his wife of acting like a spoiled king and queen.

This attribute is automatically set to on for the French locales and has no effect on the length of the sort keys.

Had the French inventor tried to model his plane on every detail of a bird's wing, he would not have succeeded in flying it.

And for 45 minutes myself and the rest of the staff tried to convince them as members of the French team not to behave in such a way.

The French Open championship on the clay courts of Roland Garros is still the only Grand Slam title to have stayed beyond his grasp.

A bit of the north door, broken by the French, hangs suspended to the wall.

The French exception is clearly alive. But it does not seem to be very well. That could soon become a problem for Europe as a whole.

In 1916, the German empire decided to focus again turned to the West line of attack, trying to defeat the French.

Previous reports about his case, which did not name Ms Liu or the French bank, said he had taken the bribes in 1997.

Now, just as the French had faced up to his disqualification from public life, the case against the former IMF boss seems close to collapse.

Some of the French soldiers and sailors who had come to help in the fight against England decided to remain here after the war was over.

The French people, by contrast, still do not seem to realise the potential gravity of their situation.

The drink has always been linked with riches, romance and nobleness. Yet the French think of it in more ordinary terms.

Aon France will use satellite photos obtained by the French weather bureau to calculate how much money subcribers should receive.

Ms Lagarde did not clamber into the French elite by the narrow, winding, stairs of the "grande ecoles" or tribal, party allegiance.

But the matter has divided the French government, with some members saying a law banning the burqa is not the best way to proceed.

Tom Ford openly admitted Yves Saint Laurent made his life a misery when he took over as chief designer of the French fashion house in 1999.

My husband and I spent two nights at this hotel after a week on the French water-ways, it was amazing!

Our information was that a large portion of the French officers, officials, and traders in all these territories had not despaired.

The highly elitist nature of the French educational system increases the temptation to treat industry as a plaything of the state.

The French president said the measure amounted to the creation of an "economic government for the eurozone" .

Such a discussion, the French believe, could nudge China to appreciate its currency-- something Beijing has so far opposed.

The move followed a warning from the French embassy on Monday to its nationals to leave Tokyo, citing concerns about further earthquakes.

"Will not the mass of Paris and its inhabitants present an obstacle dividing and delaying the enemy? " he asked the French.

The French court had sentenced him to no less than eight years' imprisonment and that was a gross miscarriage of justice.

In his honor the French national team decided to wear a black armband and hold a minute of silence ahead of the friendly against England.

Back in the late 1970s it was the other way round: the British economy was only three-quarters the size of the French one.

They were all happy to capture the city and to see the French flag waving over Moscow.

Now I realize that if he'd gone to Old Melchor's he might never have met the French Woman, and no one would have gossiped about them.

Hagen used the French doors and went directly out into the garden to where the supplicants clustered around the barrel of wine.

The French and German banking federations protested against the idea, saying it was the wrong approach to help Greece.

Mr Anderson believes that this allows the vision of the French economist Joseph Bertrand to be fulfilled.

This week's declaration from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was an unpromising start.

Eiffel Tower is one of the symbols of Paris, the French love to be known as the "Iron Lady. "

For a reporter's question whether the French prepared to leave for the problem, Kahn laughed language.

Like the French, the Spanish seem to consider Britain's BBC, which has no advertising on its domestic service, as a model.

This week, in a nod to the French, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, said the firm's takeover offer complied with market rules.

Mr Valls may be right, but the French do not seem ready to listen.

He glanced at the screen, typed "vitesse au sol" into The French king, and held it up for me to see the Chinese: "Groundspeed. "

One of the few things the French make on a grand scale. Artistically done, too, as if they cherished a deep affection even for the symbol.

For the latest developments in the case Kahn, President of the French UMP, the current French President Nicolas Sarkozy did not comment.

The French side is ready to strengthen cooperation with China in economy, trade and technology, particularly in nuclear power, he said.

The Interior minister of Spain, which has voiced reservations about parts of the French proposals, said he was satisfied.

Daguerre did not need to make money from the invention to live, since he had been pensioned by the French government.

The summer may have brought a brief health scare for the French president, but on other fronts matters seem to be inching his way.

We might have gotten away in the first week or two, if the French had simply sent us off the thirty miles to the Spanish border.

The French knew that, short of defeating the British navy, their only hope of victory was to close all the ports of Europe to British ships.

Before 1914, Eichengreen says, the British pound, the French franc, and the German mark were all international currencies.

This means that three important European cultures meet in Switzerland - that of the German-speaking area, the French and the Italian.

You know, I have to say that I doubt the French would agree that a reduction in average penis size is welfare improvement by any standard.

She was merely a poor teenager from the countryside, but she helped the French army gain an advantage over the British forces.

For him, this was a moment to say no to authority, just as the French did in the 1789 revolution.

EVER SINCE THE eighteenth century, the French have held a contradictory place in the American imagination.

The result was the collapse known as the French Revolution, which ushered in a terrifyingly more efficient version of the French state.

One fifth (19 per cent) did not know the meaning of the French word for hello, one of the most recognisable foreign greetings in the world.

One fifth (19 per cent) did not know the meaning of the French word for hello, one of the most recognisable foreign greetings in the world.

"Our federation categorically wants to avoid any problems with the French federation and I am totally in agreement with that, " he said.

nasser backed the arab insurgents , so the french were as eager as the british to see the back of him.

This was the moment, the French president told us, when capitalism would be remade in the image of the European social market.

Even the French, who for decades ran the EU as equal partners with the Germans, are acquiring something of an inferiority complex.

Moreover, the severe penalty of the deterrent effect is often caused by the French omissions offset chances.

That said, the prospects for the French economy are undoubtedly better under Mr Sarkozy than they would have been under his opponent.

However the French-manufacturer appears to be beginning to return to form, with Fernando Alonso recording a strong pole position in Hungary.

The long-anticipated Oscars released the winners on Sunday. It was a night filled with firsts, and an especially good night for the French.

The Germans have long feared that the French government planned to squeeze them out of Areva, and may have decided to pre-empt such a move.

The point of the euro, for the French and others, was to make the system European, not German.

Who was going to win the French presidential election in a few weeks, she wondered aloud to several seat mates in the front row.

He gave every peasant a piece of gold worth five ducats, saying, "Divide the water among your countrymen, and leave the French to me. "

He pulled out a hand-held electronic translator with the name "The French King" stamped in Chinese across the top.

She's saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died. . . saving her.

Most startling of all, the French seem to think that Mr Sarkozy will win next year whether they want him to or not.

Please remember how much they got by brass and bluff at the time of the French collapse.

The wife of a very important person needs help. I cannot tell you her name, because her husband is a powerful man in the French government.

and second to the French people, with whom he said "I have missed my appointment" , referring to his aborted campaign to run for president.

In 1975, a scholar at the French National Library found a batch file, and then South Korea has been trying to get them returned.

Dolohov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot dispute with the French grenadier.

michelin man - a drawing of a small , fat man who looks as if he is made by tyres, used in advertising by the French Michelin company.

It was essentially an attempt to explain change in history during the period of revolutionary upheaval around the French revolution.

Marshal Saxe wished to arm the French cavalry with a blade of a triangular cross section so as to make the use of the point obligatory.

The romance of the French, the usual coffee with a bowl of milk (Oulei coffee), continued to play up a happy mood throughout the morning.

Hitler was sure that the French political system was rotten to the core, and that it had infected the French Army.

He was expected to leave anyway to run for the French presidency; now the choice of a replacement is more urgent and more complicated.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said it would not receive "a single cent" until it had cleared up the uncertainty.

The interior minister of Spain, which has voiced aviations reservations about parts of the French proposals, said he was "satisfied" .

Sarah: [describing how she became the French Lieutenants mistress] He took me to a private sitting room, ordered food.

they had conferred together until the last moment , when it was necessary for the french gentlemen to be landed in their boat.

Given the circumstances, what sort of arguments can the French right put forward to eke out a victory?

Today, the French media are asking why "England is burning" , just as the Anglo-Saxon press posed the question of Paris six years ago.

However, he stressed that this is one of many possible options, not the French government preferred option.

Actually the French army in 1940 was one of the strongest if not the strongest all over the world.

The French government is trying to pass a harsh new law that would cut off internet access for people who download illegally.

This cute pair of earrings celebrates the French patisserie and features a rose filling macaron and a tiny Eiffel tower.

I did not quite like, at breakfast, to hear you talk so much about the French bread at Northanger.

This was a hedge against the French, who retained some influence over the police after Tunisian independence.

when the war forced the last of the French workforce to leave.

His French chefs cooking their own meals extremely satisfied with the French, in the wills she was a substantial amount of money.

In an attempt to hide their incompetence, the French military establishment cast Mata Hari as a "superspy" . The legend was born.

But the destruction of the French, which he alone foresaw , was the one absorbing desire of his heart.

The next leader in the crosshairs was the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who was up for re-election the following April.

SEGOLENE ROYAL, the French Socialist presidential candidate, is trying to pull off a heroic political trick.

Sarkozy changed the French constitution to allow himself to give a "state of the union" address to both houses of Parliament at once.

The French prime minister has reiterated his desire to see the EU arms embargo on China lifted, branding it "an anachronism" .

"You can only have lot of respect for what Patrick has achieved, " said the French manager.

But as Karen looked through the French doors leading into a stately old apartment building, there she was again.

It needs to be cherished and promoted, much like the German car industry or the French aerospace sector.

In these days of reduced fish numbers the French government are trying to diversify, particularly into tourism.

To add to its exclusivity is the fact that the chardonnay grapes have been awarded a 100-point rating by the French Agricultural Committee.

Work up until 1970 , when the war forced the last of the French workforce to leave .

The French used the church for religious purposes for a little over a decade and then converted it to a warehouse.

The official also disclosed that the day was beaten in the French diplomats, one level higher, and his head was wounded.

Perhaps most outlandish is the claim by his German masters that he asked to serve in the German army because he disliked the French.

The book's author, the French biographer, historian Jean - Luc Barre interview with Southern Weekend in Beijing to prove this point.

Michael Ward, managing director of Harrods, said: "The French are sitting on the other side of the Channel laughing at us. "

"Rococo" comes from the French Rocaille, which is originally referred to a kind of indoor decoration made of shell mixed with small stone.

The French trained former policeman said he wanted more autonomy for Anjouan and in recent days offered to hold new elections.

Violence has broken out for a seventh straight night in the suburbs of Paris, as the French government struggles to restore order.

Any agreement of that character would most definitely wreck the traditional friendship between the French and American peoples .

All bridges had been left intact, but the French are reported to have blown up the big armaments factories in the suburbs.

The French are technically excellent but Scotland came out on top twice and sometimes class doesn't count in football.

In Christophe's case, he does what he loves. He is infatuated with the hotel business just as the French people are with food.

Napoleon was the very personification of the bourgeoisie and he brought down European feudalism with the artillery of the French Revolution.

Some point to fears of globalisation, with which Doha is closely associated, as a factor behind the French 'No' vote.

That is unfair on the French president, who was careful to argue that he was trying to rescue capitalism from its own excesses.

Caroline: Lady Bathurst is redecorating her ballroom in the French style. A little unpatriotic, don't you think?

The French realise that the British are likely to be unhelpful friends if the Eurosceptical Conservatives win the election next spring.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, declared that France and Britain had never been so close.

The French governor Dumas sent a present of ten bottles of liqueurs to Raghuji, who gave them to his wife.

A spokesman for Ms. Lagarde referred questions to the French tax authorities, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

One reason smaller portions seem to satisfy the French may be that despite eating less food, they spend more time eating it.

Deschamps knows the French international well after bossing him in Ligue 1, but Monaco insist the player is part of their future plans.

So far the French seem to like what he is doing: in November, his popularity climbed eight points to 49%, according to Ipsos, a pollster.

It will be interesting to see which of the two women exerts more of a fascination on the French public.

Mr. Zong has had other corporate battles, notably a bitter falling-out with his joint venture partner Danone, the French food giant.

The French are in charge of finding the black boxes, and a submarine was en route as part of that mission.

The last few years have been too disappointing for me at the French, so I really have to focus on the early rounds.

Without question the Truffaut entry was the surprising highlight, even to one who has admired the French director's films over the years.

I do not feel that I am in a foreign country - with all the French speakers around I am not in an unknown territory.

For the French, it seems to have taken a movie to divert their sun-oriented gaze.

He also repeated that he "would not accept" such firms making cars outside France that are intended for the French market.

On the basis of these examples, it would be foolish to suggest that the French language is ungrammatical.

The French are not usually bothered by such matters, but Mr Strauss-Kahn's enemies could bring them up to try to destabilize him.

Some Haitians were amazed Friday that an African-American CNN camerawoman did not speak Creole, the French-based native language in Haiti.

It is unlikely that the German government would ever say such a thing about its auto industry or the French about its wine growers.

Most obviously, the members do not trust the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to be chairman of the club.

After a while it got boring and just like the French car dealer I started to wonder if maybe ordinary is preferable to extraordinary.

The French actress Leslie Caron, still Gigi-like at 79, told me her mother's favorite saying: "Women's skin is too fair to go bare. "

The French president said the intention was to enact them by March next year.

The day of the French military source told AFP that the reconnaissance mission will last all day.

The statement said the target of attacks President Shaukat Aziz, in retaliation for Mao Tower and the French anti-terrorism cooperation.

And I never knew Josephine Baker was a part of the french resistance. It's an amazing part.

When Chou En-Lai was asked about the long-term impact of the French revolution, he famously replied: "It's too soon to tell. "

The French envoy later told reporters that Paris was ready to begin drafting a resolution soon.

It's a pity that the Chinese speed train were built out off the French offer as if Germans or Japanese could do better.

This is because others fail to see that the French decide all big issues on the basis of self-interest, a feature of peasant ideology.

He is held as one of the fathers of unified Italy and was also a general in the French army during the Franco-Prussian war.

Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer in the French artillery, was unjustly convicted of treason just a decade after he died.

Some believe that Coubertin attributed the defeat of France not to its military skills but rather to the French soldiers' lack of vigor.

As the French man of letters Francois Mauriac quipped, "I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them. "

Still, the average American gets only four weeks of paid leave a year compared with seven for the French and eight for the Germans.

the Games because he thought they were similar to the French education system, which combined moral and social education in school games.

In that aspect almost all European especially the French Army and the American Army are nothing but invasion armies.

She thought I had committed to her at the French Open and I thought she was playing with Leander Paes.

The French government had previously denied accusations that it snubbed the queen by inviting only the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Simultaneously with the French studies, the child is introduced to a host of other subjects that receive little attention in the schools.

The global economic crisis is beginning to hit the French defense budget, with the country announcing a cut in Naval SCALP procurement.

The French receptionist asked me if i was claustrophobic, and offered to escort me in the lift to help.

The French threat dramatically raised the temperature hours before President Obama arrives in London today.

Another factor was the leisure forced on the French aristocracy by an absolute monarchy.

To save the pension system, the French parliament is about to pass a law that forces workers to postpone retirement by two years.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, proposed talks within a year-long timetable.

He explored the economic and social conditions of the period , trying to find the real causes of the French Revolution.

Financial advisory body of experts in France said the French people's confidence this month was significantly lower than the period average.

Sources said that the French health authorities have long been unable to call attention to the prohibition of the drug.

Analysts said the French carmaker would struggle to build its business in a competitive market.

"You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you, " Obama replied, according to the French interpreter.

He will attend a global economic summit in London and a meeting of NATO leaders on the French-German border.

Whereas the French salon excluded politics from polite conversation, in the British coffee house politics was a main preoccupation.

The manuscript was sent to the printer in London a few weeks before the French revolution.

He said Zhou had been confused when asked about the French Revolution and the Paris Commune.

The French are proud of their cradle-to-grave welfare benefits, and do not give them up without a good old theatrical fight.

An interpreter was employed by the French producer because he did not speak Chinese.

In one scene, he describes the French ambassador to Lebanon as "a famous cretin" , and a previous one to Russia as "an idiot" .

More recently at home watching the film soundtrack, the French like the United States all came.

Louis's refusal to exclude Philip from the line of succession to the French throne led to the War of the Spanish Succession.

I never believed myself that I could be in the French Open final, I wish I can do even better in Saturday's final.

Some even say jokingly it a "revenge" by the French against the Chinese.

The French Open final this year was not much of a real contest due to Pierce's lack of form.

Two pirates also died, and three others were taken prisoner, said the French defence minister, Herve Morin.

The French were in a state of postwar shock and clamoring for fearful retribution .

As a result of a pile scandal, the French Government Cabinet could not be accountable to all, had to resign.

He referred to a history book to find out the dates of the French Revolution.

The French answer was to bind Germany into the European construction through the creation of a single currency.

Although bracing itself for social unrest this autumn, the French government believes it has done enough to support the economy.

The French Revolution finally became nothing more than a fight among would-be rulers to gain possession of the power of government.

She had literally given birth to the French film industry by the time she moved to America with her husband, the cameraman Herbert Blache.

But the French government seems to be taking the issue seriously.

You know how famously grouchy the French can be, dear brother.

We were able to keep the Spanish behind us and pass the French on the next downwind leg .

it is a delight to see that the French can sometimes pull them off too.

The French are ready to contribute, but have ruled out sending in ground troops.

DEFENDING the French language from the creeping invasion of English has long been a favourite pastime of France's elite.

To this end the French have been quietly talking to the Chinese, trying to get the idea of exchange-rate co-ordination on the table.

He argued that this distinctive German spirit was restrained and denied expression, when the French gained control of Berlin.

The areas along the front lines, on the French-Belgian border, were wastelands.

The French Accident Investigation Bureau for civil aviation is investigating, the company said in a statement.

His father worked as a cook at the French consulate; his mother did laundry.

The French national team is important but Arsenal are as well and he is paid by the Club - not the French national team.

It has infected millions of PCs worldwide, including parts of the French navy and air force and the American air force.

No doubt it is meant primarily as an insult to the French rather than a statement based on any kind of actual factual reasoning.

FRANCE'S opposition Socialist Party should be building up for its best crack at the French presidency in over a decade.

As you know the French do this, the Russians do this and the Japanese are now doing this.

When World War I broke out, the French suspected her of spying for the Germans, even though she was also likely doing so for the French.

He thought to better his circumstances by marrying a young woman of the French nation, who was by profession an opera-girl.

After that, the French government began to take more actions to re-assert Vietnamese sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa.

The Dane then had the French keeper diving to his right to parry away a cross-shot from the left of the area.