France
French Republic
République Française
CAPITAL: Paris
FLAG: The national flag is a tricolor of blue, white, and red vertical stripes.
ANTHEM: La Marseillaise.
MONETARY UNIT: The eur...
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Situated on the western fringes of continental Europe, France has three coastlines—on the English Channel and North Sea, on the Atlantic, and on the Mediterranean—and has continen...
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France Today
France is a country in Western Europe. It is famous for its wine and cheese. People in France also enjoy croissants and different kinds of bread but baguette is the most popular. They a...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the hist...
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Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the histo...
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Area: 543,965 sq km (210,026 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 61,114,000Capital:
Paris
Chief of state:
President
Jacques
Chirac
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Dominique de
Villepin
France
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Nicolas Sarkozy was consecrated as the presidential candidate of France's governing conservatives Sunday, and now the law-and-order interior minister heads into an election showdown with a charisma...
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Persistent rumors that Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia have taken steps toward separation set off a debate Wednesday over whether the constitution even allows a French president to divorce.Rum...
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Paris (dpa) - One could hardly blame Tour de France director
Christian Prudhomme if he were rooting for race leader Michael
Rasmussen of Denmark to have a very bad day in We...
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Paris (dpa) - A list of all champions of the Tour de France.
1903: Maurice Garin, France
1904: Henri Cornet, France
1905: Louis Trousselier, France
1906: ...
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Rwanda filed a case against France at the U.N.'s highest court over a French request that President Paul Kagame be tried by the Rwanda war crimes tribunal.The Hague-based International Court of Jus...
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PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Air France-KLM and Delta Air Lines
Inc announced plans on Wednesday to team up on routes linking
major U.S. cities and London's Heathrow airport in a challenge
to rival B...
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Vacationers visiting France's beaches are getting some unusual promotional goodies _ such as condoms stamped with the logo of the ruling conservative political party.
With presidentia...
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French authorities have detained seven suspected Islamic militants who allegedly trained to fight in Iraq by firing weapons in the woods of eastern France, police officials said Friday.Six of the m...
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It's almost a "bebe" boom: France had more babies in 2006 than in any year in the last quarter-century, capping a decade of rising fertility that has bucked Europe's graying trend, the state statis...
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