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A file picture taken on November 4, 2012 shows France's chief Rabbi Gilles Bernheim listening to a speech at the City Hall, in Dieulefit, southeastern France, Bernheim has admitted to plagiarism in a book he authored in 2011.
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French people watch a live broadcast television debate with French President Francois Hollande, in a bar in a village of La Bastide Clairence, southwestern France, Thursday, March 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)
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(From L, front row) France's ambassador to Syria Eric Chevallier, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Syrian National Coalition President Mouaz al-Khatib, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani pose during the family photo of a meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People (FOSP) Ministerial" group on February 28, 2013 in Rome. during a joint press conference at the end of a meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People (FOSP) Ministerial" group on February 28, 2013 in Rome.
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France's Florence Cassez, flanked by French Foreign minister Laurent Fabius and her Lawyer Franck Berton arrive for a press conference at Roissy airport on Jan. 24, 2013 in Roissy, France.
Two French lesbian policewomen, Raphaelle and her companion Fabienne pose with one of their three children, on October 24, 2012 near Lyon, in eastern France. Raphaelle and Fabienne had two twins, born in early 2010, for which Fabienne intends to obtain from the courts a right to "paternity leave", which has been denied so far by the officials from the police department. An amendment to a proposed law which aims to fund the Social Security healthcare system and which will be examined by Parliament on October 25 or 26, proposes transforming paternity leave into a "child birth leave", which would be bestowed regardless of a person's gender. AFP PHOTO / JEFF PACHOUD (Photo credit should read JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty Images)
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France's President Francois Hollande arrives for an European Union leaders summit meeting to discuss the European Union's long-term budget in Brussels, Feb. 7, 2013.
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General Charles de Gaulle, who led the French government-in-exile for four long, occasionally despairing years, at the Arc de Triomphe during the Liberation of Paris on Aug. 25, 1944. That same day, de Gaulle gave perhaps the most famous speech of his long, controversial career, addressing a crowd of thousands from the heart of the city's civic life, the Hôtel de Ville: "Paris! Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help of the French armies, with the support and the help of all France, of the France that fights, of the only France, of the real France, of the eternal France!"
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France's Interior Minister Claude Guéant (4thR) waits with Police officers and members of GIPN (French National Police Intervention Group) as the RAID special police forces unit are still laying siege to the apartment block where Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of a series of deadly shootings, was holed up, on March 22, 2012 in Toulouse, southwestern France
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France's newly appointed Junior Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac attends a handover ceremony in Paris, May 17, 2012.
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France's former prime minister Francois Fillon (L) and UMP political party head Jean-Francois Cope (R) attend a meeting during the UMP parliamentary day in Marcq en Baroeul, northern France, September 27, 2012.
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The idea of an enormous (over six feet tall and weighing roughly three tons) woolly rhino roaming what is now France might sound like the stuff of science fiction. But roughly 17,000 years ago, on the limestone walls of Lascaux, an artful, Ice Age hand recorded the existence of just such a creature. Fossils indicate that the front horn of the animal could reach three feet in length.
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Lance Armstrong for a training session during the second of the two rest days of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race in Pau, France, July 21, 2010.
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Lazenby twirls a gun beside potential Bond girl Marie-France Boyer. "I'm really looking forward to being Bond, for the bread and the birds," he told LIFE after his casting.
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France's President Francois Hollande, center, gestures as he leaves the Europe 1 radio station after an interview, in Paris, Dec. 21, 2012.
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American Lance Armstrong with team RadioShack arrives over the finish along the 213km stage three of the Tour de France on July 6, 2010 in Arenberg, France.
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Robert Campbell during a kissing test, opposite actress France Anglade. Each of the Bond hopefuls had to demonstrate kissing ability.
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France's Yohann Gene waits for the start of the 218 km and seventh stage of the 2011 Tour de France cycling race run between Le Mans and Chateauroux, center France, on July 8, 2011.
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"All the civilized world loves France and Paris. Americans share this love with a special intimacy born in the kinship of our revolutions, our ideas and our alliances in two great wars." — LIFE on the relationship between the U.S. and its longtime European ally.
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French journalist Gilles Jacquier is seen in this undated picture released by France Television, January 11, 2012. Cameraman Jacquier was among several people killed in Syria's central city of Homs on Wednesday, becoming the first Western reporter to have died in 10 months of unrest in the country.
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Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off on July 25, 2000, with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground.
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France's incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy makes his speech after the first round of the 2012 French Presidential election at Maison de la Mutualite on April 22, 2012 in Paris, France
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France's President Francois Hollande and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel kissing each other during anniversary ceremony in castle Ludwigsburg on Sept. 22, 2012.
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GIs tramp in review across an English field, 1944, as the long-planned Operation Overlord — the D-Day invasion of France — draws near. With 160,000 Allied troops taking part, the cross-Channel attack was the single greatest air-land-and-sea invasion in military history.
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Lance Armstrong heads to the start of stage 17 of the Tour de France in Pau, France, July 22, 2010.
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US players celebrate winning 86-50 against France during the London 2012 Olympic Games women's gold medal basketball game between the USA and France at the North Greenwich Arena in London on August 11, 2012.
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France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech during the official inauguration of Strasbourg Grand Mosque in Strasbourg, Sept. 27, 2012.
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G8 foreign ministers (L-R), Koichiro Gemba of Japan, Guido Westerwelle of Germany, Sergei Lavrov of Russia, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Alain Juppe of France, John Baird of Canada, Giulio Terzi Di Sant'Agata of Italy, and Catherine Ashton of the European Union, pose for a group photo on April 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Secretary Clinton hosted this year's G8 Foreign Ministers conference at the Blair House.
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Lance Armstrong rides in a breakaway during stage 16 of the Tour de France on July 20, 2010 in Pau, France
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Japan's forward Yuki Ogimi, center, scores in front of France's Sandrine Soubeyrand during their women's football semi final Japan vs France event at Wembley stadium during the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 6, 2012 in London.
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Outside view of the European Court of Human Rights, Thursday Dec. 16, 2010 in Strasbourg, France. Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled
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The famed Lascaux cave drawings in southwest France. Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened in Paris Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 for a conference on how to stop the spread of fungus stains
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Paris, France: Police prepare to take away the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales, died in on August 31, 1997. The crash also killed her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the chauffeur.
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France vastly overplanted in the late 1990s. Now there's a proposal to uproot some vines.
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Jews get off the train in Pithiviers, France, May 1941. More than 3,000 of them were arrested by the Paris police headquarters and imprisoned in the transit camps of Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande.
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FRANCE: The damage at Merkaz Hatorah Jewish high. The new building was gutted
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Tunisian singer Amina sings the Tunisian anthem before a soccer match between France and Tunisia. She is watched by Laam, a singer of Tunisian origin who, while singing the French national anthem was booed by fans at the stadium.
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Cannes, France, 1962.
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Sunbathing in France, 1945.
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Sunbathing in France, 1945.
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Sunbathing in France, 1945.
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Sunbathing in France, 1945.
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Sunbathing in France, 1945.
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France's President and UMP party candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy, delivers a speech during campaign rally in Saint Cyr Sur Loire, April 23, 2012, the day after the first round of presidential elections where Sarkozy ended in second place behind the Socialist candidate.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy announces in Paris that France would rejoin NATO's integrated military command, March 11, 2009.
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Amid the ruins, France, June 1944.
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Along the coast of France, June 1944.
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French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing issues the opening statement during the joint press conference of the economic summit, in Rambouillet, France on November 17, 1975. (L-R) Italian Premier Aldo Moro, British Prime Minster Harold Wilson; President Ford, President Giscard D' Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Japanese Premier Takeo Miki.
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France's former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua arrives at a Paris courthouse for the opening of a trial over a vast France-Angola arms scandal that involves the son of late French President Francois Mitterrand and dozens of businessmen, politicians and public figures
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American Floyd Landis rides during the 19th stage of the 93rd Tour de France. His third-place finish enabled Landis to regain the overall lead of the race
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Picasso, the South of France, 1949.
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Pablo Picasso, south of France, 1949.
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An abandoned German machine gun, France, June 1944.
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1949 | Pablo Picasso drafts a centaur in mid-air with a "light pen" in southeastern France. Originally published in the January 30, 1950, issue of LIFE.
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View of the ruins of the Palais de Justice in the town of St. Lo, France, summer 1944. The red metal frame in the foreground is what's left of an obliterated fire engine.
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France far-right leader and presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen poses with Farid Smahi after adressing his New Year's Greetings to the press in Saint-Cloud, near Paris, France, on January 8, 2007.
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France will enter the competitive international television news market with the launch of France 24, a 24-hour news network in French and English, providing a French perspective on world news.
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An Air France plane, left, and an Alitalia plane, right, at Charles de Gaulle airport, outside Paris, France
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The pack rides during the fourth stage of the 2011 Tour de France cycling race run between Lorient and Mur-de-Bretagne, western France, on July 5, 2011.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, August 16, 2011
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the opening of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris February 18, 2011.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech in Paris after international talks on Libya.
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Air France 447 Flight Data Recorder
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People visit France exhibition area during the Top Wine China 2011 fair at China World Trade Center on May 25, 2011 in Beijing, China.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy laughs with U.S. President Barack Obama during the second day of the NATO Summit in Lisbon November 20, 2010
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An American corporal stacks cans of gasoline in preparation for the upcoming invasion of France, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, May 1944.
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy, center, speaks with France's Grand Rabbi Joseph Sitruk, left, France's Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, second left, French Protestant Federation president, Claude Baty, second right, and French Orthodox Archbishop Emmanuel Adamakis.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, seen in this video grab, appears during a prime time news interview with journalist David Pujadas on France2 television in the garden of the Elysee Palace in Paris July 12, 2010.
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France's biggest business district, La Defense, a Paris suburb
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France will be the first country to ban psychological violence within marriages.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, speaks with his son Jean
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In France, National Front Party activists prepare to demonstrate at a rally
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France's nuclear missile submarine, Le Triomphant
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Environment and Energy Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, right, visit the Paris Mondial de l'Automobile in October 2008
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Delegates from France, Iran, Russia and the U.S. in Vienna on Oct. 19, 2009
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Delegates from France, Iran, Russia and the U.S. attend a meeting at the International Atomic Energy Agency's headquarters in Vienna
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, welcomes U.S. President George Bush at the Elysee Palace in Paris, June 13, 2008.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy argues with taxi drivers at the Montparnasse train station in Paris, February 8, 2008.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) chats with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) and his wife Cecilia
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy paddles a canoe with his son Louis on Lake Winnipesaukee while on vacation in Wolfeboro, N.H.
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy paddles a canoe with his son Louis on Lake Winnipesaukee
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France's Socialist Party presidential hopeful Segolene Royal speaks during the second of three regional debates, October, 2006
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Tour de France, 1960
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France's Marcel Desailly (L) tussles with Uruguay's Sebastian Abreu in Pusan
France's volcanic park Vulcania is one of Europe's hot attractions this summer
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LEGENDS: France's Patrick Vieira and Zinedine Zidane celebrate the 3-1 win.
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CELEBRATIONS: France's Patrick Vieira, second left, is mobbed by his teammates
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France's anti-terrorist squad makes arrests outside Paris
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Departing France Telecom chief Michel Bon
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Paris' British midfielder David Beckham celebrates after Paris Saint-Germain won the French L1 title on May 12, 2013 at the Gerland stadium in Lyon, France.
Scene at German surrender in World War II, Reims, France, May 7, 1945.
Scene at German surrender in World War II, Reims, France, May 7, 1945.
Scene at German surrender in World War II, Reims, France, May 7, 1945.
Scene at German surrender in World War II, Reims, France, May 7, 1945.
The room in the “little red schoolhouse” in Reims, France, where Germany signed the Instrument of Surrender that ended the Second World War in Europe, May 7, 1945.
The room in the "little red schoolhouse" in Reims, France, where Germany signed the Instrument of Surrender that ended the Second World War in Europe, May 7, 1945.
German Col. General Alfred Jodl signs the Instrument of Surrender at Reims, France, May 7, 1945.
German Col. General Alfred Jodl signs the Instrument of Surrender at Reims, France, May 7, 1945.
Arranging the table in the “little red schoolhouse” in Reims, France, where Germany signed the Instrument of Surrender that ended the Second World War in Europe, May 7, 1945.
Arranging the table in the "little red schoolhouse" in Reims, France, where Germany signed the Instrument of Surrender that ended the Second World War in Europe, May 7, 1945.
Site of SHAEF, or Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Reims, France, 1945.
Site of SHAEF, or Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Reims, France, 1945.
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Chilean poet and ambassador to France Pablo Neruda (1904-1973).
