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The Tories say the French government has the City in its sights and that MrBarnier's appointment would help Paris's cause.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held talks with French officials Friday on expanding cooperation in the energy, automotive, transportation and pharmaceutical sectors.

Be aware that in France you will not necessarily be following a dive master about the dive.

Caption: Roman Polanski The 2008 Cannes Film Festival - Day 12 Palme d'Or Closing Ceremony - Arrivals at the Palais des Festivals Cannes, France .... ROMAN POLANSKI is set to spend his house arrest at a luxury Swiss ski resort, with officials insisting his imminent release from jail will be handled quickly and discreetly.

PARIS: Four men were injured during a series of explosions which happened Monday evening in a chemical factory belonging to French major chemical producer SNF in central France.

Quebec sovereigntists cannot assume that the international community would automatically side with them after another referendum, says former Parti Quebecois premier Jacuques Parizeau.

Caption: Roman Polanski The 2008 Cannes Film Festival - Day 12 Palme d'Or Closing Ceremony - Arrivals at the Palais des Festivals Cannes, France .... A portrait of embattled filmmaker ROMAN POLANSKI and late actress SHARON TATE embracing in the nude is set to go up for auction.

The world's largest species of monkey 'chooses' mates with genes that are different from their own to guarantee healthy and strong offspring, according to a new research study.

He's done the Swiss Alps and the English Channel, soaring over them on a jet-powered wing.

Think of Bordeaux and the names of all the great French chateaux come tripping off the tongue: Lafite, Latour, Margaux, Haut-Brion and Mouton Rothschild.

Share + Comments Nov 24, 2009 9:05 am US/Eastern LOS ANGELES 1 of 1 Alexandra Kerry attends the Akvinta Presents 'A Night of Hollywood Domino' at The House at Cannes during the 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2009 in Cannes, France.

Damien Traille was given the starting job at full back in the French side to play New Zealand in Marseille on Saturday.

Jacques Chirac, the former president of France, who is making a rock-star tour of the country to promote his memoir, was caught making what has been described as an off-colour remark after posing with a dark-skinned bystander for a photo.

Actor Dustin hoffman arrives at the Cesar Film Awards 2009 at the Theatre du Chatelet on February 27, 2009 in Paris, France.

Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Paris' Pantheon, the final resting place of other French greats like Voltaire and Victor Hugo.

Charlie Chaplin's last home in Switzerland will be turned into a permanent place of pilgrimage for fans of the actor who immortalized the "Little Tramp," one of his sons said Monday.

Were Franz Kafka alive today - and were he to have developed an uncharacteristic interest in European city breaks - it would be interesting to know what he made of the latest addition to France 's panoply of weekend getaway options.

Veteran Leonard Lucas still has vivid memories of World War II. "I was in the artillery; I remember the foxholes, mud and rain," says Lucas, 90, of Valley City.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's rocky relationship with France's literary elite has suffered a fresh blow after his plan to transfer Albert Camus' remains to the Pantheon was rejected by the great writer's son, amid claims of political opportunism.

Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year.