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  France Geography
France is the second largest country in Europe, with the fifth largest population in Europe.
France is also well known for the "Tour de France," a 2,500 mile bicycle race.
France is located mid-way between the equator and the North Pole.
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 Index of Economic Freedom 2006 - France
France's capital flows and foreign investment score is 1 point worse this year; however, its fiscal burden of government score is 0.2 point better, and its government intervention score is 2 points better.
As a member of the European Union, France was subject to a common EU weighted average external tariff of 1.3 percent in 2003, down from the 2.4 percent for 2002 reported in the 2005 Index, based on World Bank data.
France had 925 banks and financial institutions at the end of 2003, including 304 commercial banks, 167 of which were foreign-owned subsidiaries and branches.
www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=France   (902 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At present, France is at the forefront of efforts to develop the EU's military capabilities to supplement progress toward an EU foreign policy.
France is in the midst of transition, from a well-to-do modern economy that has featured extensive government ownership and intervention to one that relies more on market mechanisms.
France's leaders remain committed to a capitalism in which they maintain social equity by means of laws, tax policies, and social spending that reduce income disparity and the impact of free markets on public health and welfare.
www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/fr.html   (1309 words)

  
 Embassy of France in the US - France's General description
France's foreign policy is founded on several centuries of diplomatic tradition and some fundamental principles: the right of peoples to self-determination, respect for human rights and democratic principles, respect for the rule of law and cooperation among nations.
Action at the UN France's foreign policy is conducted in accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations, purposes and principles which in fact comply with the ideals underlying France's republican tradition.
France intends to sustain its effort of solidarity towards the poorest countries and in 2003 devoted €6.4 billion to official development assistance.
www.info-france-usa.org /atoz/descript.asp   (5121 words)

  
 France - Economic analysis of government's policies, investment climate and political risk.
However, France was found guilty of torture and of excessively lengthy judicial proceedings by the European Court of Human Rights which, in a separate judgment, also found the French authorities had breached international norms on the length of preventive detention.
France has the longest road network in the EU In the early 1990s about 29 million motor vehicles were in use; approximately 23.8 million of these were passenger cars.
France is also one of the leading countries for outward investment and the third largest destination for inward investment.
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 Timeline France 1968-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
France was attempting to restructure its finances in time to meet the deadline for European monetary union in 1999.
1997 Dec 23, In France "Carlos the Jackal," aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was convicted in the murder of 2 French agents and a Lebanese informant on Jun 27, 1975.
1999 Dec 5, In France Michele Alliot-Marie (53) was elected as the 1st female leader of the conservative Rally for the Republic.
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 France Hotels, Paris Hotels and the France Travel Guide - France.com
March 17, 1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels which is a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
It is located west of Italy, southeast of France, and north of the island of Sardinia.
France's monument to its war heroes and victims, l' Hotel des Invalides' is one of the most striking monuments of the French capital.
www.france.com   (959 words)

  
 France train information from Rail Europe
Any 4, 5, 6, 8 or 10 days unlimited travel within a 2-month period on the national rail networks of France and Germany.
The two most popular European countries, France and Italy, are now available to you in one great railpass.
France and Switzerland are now available to you in one great railpass.
www.raileurope.com /us/rail/passes/france_index.htm   (262 words)

  
 France cycling and walking tours from France tour specialists where you save time and money.
We are specialists in bicycle tours in France as well as hiking tours in France and specialty travel throughout France.
We are the leaders and specialists in active vacations in France for cycling tours and hiking/walking tours throughout France, with creative itineraries that feature the best of each region at the greatest possible value to you.
Some sample France tours are cooking tours and wine theme tours, and of course for our mainstay bicycle tours and walking tours we can customize the itineraries as best we can to meet your travel needs.
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 France
It is the capital of France It is considered to be one of the greatest cities in the world.
France’s climate is different depending on where you are in France.
France is also one of the world’s leading exporters of farm products.
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 Brigitte Bardot fined for inciting racial hatred - MORE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
France’s 5-million-member Muslim community is the largest in Europe.
She told the court France was going through a period of decadence and said she opposed interracial marriage.
Bardot, who in her 1960s heyday was the epitome of French feminine beauty, was fined $3,250 in January 1998 after being convicted of inciting racial hatred in comments about civilian massacres in Algeria.
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 France 5
France 17-3-18 Dear Kate, Glad to hear that all is well at home and that Fred, Clara and the youngsters are well.
France 3-5-18 Dear Mother, I hope that you have not been worrying about not getting a letter from me for some time bit I could not help it.
France 6-5-18 Dear Kate, I am quite fit and well and hope that all at home is the same.
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 Guardian Unlimited Sport | Special reports | France 44 - 5 Ireland
Apart from Olivier Magne's vain post-match efforts to prise the cork from a magnum of champagne roughly the same size as Ireland's scrum-half Peter Stringer, France were irresistible on Saturday.
Under Bernard Laporte, France have finally located the elusive qualities of discipline and consistency and, not unlike the glass pyramid at the Louvre, have stumbled upon a perfect, user-friendly blend of ancient and modern.
As for Brusque, he was something like fourth-choice full-back in France two months ago; here he scored two sharp tries, including a 79th-minute effort to round off a sumptuous team movement.
sport.guardian.co.uk /sixnations2002/story/0,11549,680656,00.html   (860 words)

  
 France 5, Japan 2
France (1-1-0) was eliminated earlier today when Belarus beat Germany 8-2.
That assured Brooks the victory in his first Olympics behind the bench since leading the United States to a gold medal 18 years ago.
 France tied it at 14:42 when Phillippe Bozon stole the puck from defenseman Takayuki Kobori, skated in alone and faked out goaltender Dusty Imoo before scoring into the left side of the net.
www.canoe.ca /NaganoResultsHockey/mfeb9_fra_jpn.html   (374 words)

  
 eBay - france 5 ..., Coins World, Europe items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
France 5 Cents 1904 Brown & Red Unc.
FRANCE, 5 FRANCS, 1963 - UNC - SILVER
FRANCE - 5 CENTIMES - 1857A - aEF - SCARCE
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 Timeline France 1921-1967   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1930 Mar 5, Lorin Maazel, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941), was born in Neuilly, France.
France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
It was censored in France and barred from advertising or sale to minors until the early 1970s.
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 It's more powerful than France!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
France has Power 3, Resistance 5; here's a helpfully collected list of all the official cards with more power, and why.
France is ruled by the German Bundesbank instead.
Yeah, but the last time France took on a military campaign and succeeded (at least temporarily) was when Napolean, an Italian, ran the show.
www.sjgames.com /INWO/articles/morepowerfulthanfrance.html   (1162 words)

  
 Death toll from heatwave could reach 5,000: France - Aug. 19, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
PARIS - The French government said on Monday it was "plausible" that the death toll from a record-breaking two-week heatwave could now be as high as 5,000 and belatedly acknowledged there had been shortcomings in the way the crisis was handled.
Brucker said hindsight showed that there should have been a public heatwave alert based on the weather forecasts but insisted that, at the time, neither the ambulance service nor the hospitals had raised the alarm.
The left-wing newspaper Liberation mocked Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's statement at the weekend that French society - and not the state health system or the lack of government leadership - was to blame for the high death toll because it abandoned its elderly people.
www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/aug/19/wnw_8-1.htm   (624 words)

  
 CNN.com - Lethal bird flu spreads in France - Mar 5, 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
PARIS, France (AP) -- A lethal strain of bird flu has spread to a region on France's Mediterranean coast, with confirmation Sunday that a swan there died of the H5N1 strain of the virus.
Earlier, all of France's bird flu cases had been confined to the southeast Ain region.
France also detected the flu last month on a turkey farm, the only commercial poultry in the European Union hit by the virus.
www.cnn.com /2006/HEALTH/03/05/france.birdflu.ap   (259 words)

  
 Bishops' Conference of France - 5
As I previously asked at Sainte-Anne-d'Auray during my Pastoral Visit to France, I ask you once again to support families in their vocation to express the beauty of parenthood and nurture the culture of life (cf.
She took part in the missionary adventure of the Church in France during the 20th century, in particular in the foundation of the Mission of France and its seminary at Lisieux.
May her shining witness help all the faithful, united with their Pastors, to put down roots in ordinary life and in the different cultures and to make the newness and power of the Gospel penetrate them through a life that is increasingly fraternal!
www.ewtn.com /library/PAPALDOC/jp2fran5.htm   (2102 words)

  
 EUROPA - IDABC - UK beats France 5-1 in the match of e-democracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An 'e-democracy friendly' between the United Kingdom and France was held on 08/7/2003 in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris.
Organised by the 'Club du e-Public', an association aiming to promote the use of new technologies in government, the match brought together leading British and French e-government actors to pitch their viewpoints on the state of e-democracy in their respective countries.
However, in the closing minutes of the game, France managed to score a late but brilliant goal on 'good intentions and leading-edge projects' for e-democracy, such as the city of Issy-les-Moulineaux's own projects (including a new multimedia Council hall or a multi-access channels contact centre for managing all citizen relationships).
europa.eu.int /idabc/en/document/1484/345   (318 words)

  
 Music Celebrations International - American Celebration of Music in France - Tour #5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Known as The City of the Normans, the architectural heritage reveals the affection for the city felt by William the Conqueror and his Queen, Mathilda.
The ancient capital of Normandy, it is now chief town of the Haute-Normandie region, the see of an archbishop, France's largest river port and one of its largest seaports, situated at the highest point on the river navigable by seagoing vessels.
In the Place de la Cathéédrale, in the center of the old town of Rouen on the right bank of the Seine, stands the Gothic Cathedral of Notre-Dame, one of the largest and most magnificent in France.
www.musiccelebrations.com /france_itinerary5.html   (808 words)

  
 U.S. women knock off France 5-1 - France.com
Hamm, a two-time FIFA Player of the Year, set up Wambach for the Americans' first goal in the 16th minute.
Hucles scored her first goal of the match in the 31st, and notched her second two minutes later after precise passing from captain Julie Foudy and Hamm.
Lindsay Tarpley, who came on at halftime, netted the fifth goal in the 47th, and Sonia Bompastor answered moments later for France, which finished in fourth place in 2003.
www.france.com /docs/393.html   (119 words)

  
 France's 5 million Muslims hear the call of political power
Toulouse, France -- For 33-year-old Malika Ahmed, political priorities begin in a nondescript stadium 450 miles from home, stumping with her favorite presidential contender.
When an Islamic association held a forum on political participation in Paris last weekend, top aides from France's main parties were at hand to respond to their campaign demands.
"It's not admissible that in a country like France there should be discrimination based on origin and religion," Chirac told supporters Tuesday at a rally in the working-class Paris suburb of Argenteuil.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/24/MN164364.DTL   (925 words)

  
 Chirac addresses inequities as spark for riots - Europe - MSNBC.com
Chirac had kept largely silent about France’s worst unrest since the 1968 uprising by students and workers, speaking publicly about the crisis only once in a brief address focused on security measures.
But on Thursday, he said that once order is restored, France will have to “draw the consequences of this crisis, and do so with a lot of courage and lucidity.”
The unrest started among youths in Clichy-sous-Bois angry over the accidental electrocutions of two teenagers, but it rapidly grew into a nationwide wave of arson and nightly clashes between rioters armed with firebombs and police retaliating with tear gas.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9891709   (838 words)

  
 bike France 5
Another long climb through heavily forested land brings us to Monpazier, a bastide, which professes itself to be one of France's prettiest villages.
As we approach the end of an 80 mile day, we pass beautiful villages and impressive chateaux in commanding positions overlooking the valley of the river Lot.
Apertifs on the terrace watching the sun go down, then inside for a very welcome dinner cooked by mine host who used to be Chef in a 5* hotel in Brussels.
www.bakerlite.co.uk /day_5.htm   (517 words)

  
 CNN/SI - 1999 Tour de France - Stage 5
With its medieval charm framed by lush green countryside and filled with cathedrals and chateaus, Bonneval, the home to such noteworthy figures as Rabelais and Marcel Proust, hosts the Tour de France for the first time.
This town, in the middle of the Beauce region, is known as the "heartland of France," and it was here that Emile Zola was inspired to write "La Terre."
Police headquarters of the Somme department and capital of the Picardy region, Amiens is dominated by the majestic tower of its cathedral, the highest in all of France (112 meters).
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cycling/1999/tour_de_france/stages/5.html   (168 words)

  
 France 5 Japan 0 :: Match Report
Japan were on the receiving end of some harsh French lessons in the first of a series of friendlies they are due to play in Europe as part of their preparations for the 2002 World Cup they will co-host with South Korea.
On a wet, heavy pitch, France, the current World and European champions, were superior in every department and aspect of the game, with only Japan’s AS Roma star, Hidetoshi Nakata, making any discernible impact against a France team packed with world-class individuals and superbly marshalled by the indomitable Zinedine Zidane.
The first-half Japanese tactic of packing the midfield area to stifle the talents of Zidane and Co. came to no avail as the French playmakers consistently proved the theory of quality over quantity and strolled to a two goal lead within the first twelve minutes.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/archives/wc2002/fo/mr/re.html   (480 words)

  
 Real Estate For Sale in France - Available Properties - Viviun the Leader in International Property Listings
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Located in the tiny hamlet of Chandon, this charming and beautifully renovated barn conversion is south facing with amazing views of the valley.
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