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France's Sarkozy faces whipping in regional vote
The Associated Press - Mar 11, 2010
Voters hit by France's worst recession since World War II are fearing for their jobs, and are worried and conflicted about how Islamic veils and immigrant ... Search for Air France black boxes delayed
The Associated Press - Mar 11, 2010
PARIS — The search for the black boxes of an Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris has been delayed ... HSBC says bank data on 24000 accounts stolen
Swissinfo - Mar 11, 2010
The theft triggered a brief spat between Switzerland and France last year after the data was handed over by the former employee, Hervé Falciani, ...

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France books

Rick Steves' France 2010 with map

by: Rick Steves, Steve Smith
What can I say, Rick Steve's does it again with his latest update on France! I usually buy his country guide along with the matching Michelin Green Guide for any European Country we plan on visiting. An excellent combination!
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Rick Steves' French Phrase Book and Dictionary

by: Rick Steves
An intelligent and useful phrase book but full of surprises. You have to read the whole thing--how to handle yourself in a bar (Viva la France!!), how to tell the taxi driver that he is going so fast that you are going to throw up, and on and on. But lots of useful stuff too, including phrases that a standard guidebook wouldn't think to tell you about.
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Frommer's Paris 2010 (Frommer's Color Complete Guides)

by: Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince
This is jam-packed guide of beautiful Paris, with a total of 424 colorful pages, and a bonus foldout map in the back of the guide. The guide includes a number of maps within, for example, a map of Left Bank when going through the area. Also included are a number of "utility" items, such as common phrases, brief history of France, a map of the Paris Metro on the inside-back-cover, and things like that.

There is a total of 13 chapters, including dining, shopping, nightlife, strolling, accommodations, side trips, exploring the City of Light.
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France (Country Guide)

by: Nicola Williams, Oliver Berry, Steve Fallon, Emilie Filou, Catherine Le Nevez, Daniel Robinson, Miles Roddis
This travel volume, by the folks at Lonely Planet, is well done! It begins with the authors listing their favorite places, with nice color photos to illustrate--from # 1, Avenue Champs-Elysees to # 16 Annecy. The book begins with an exhortation to prepare for a trip to France well in advance: "Some parts of France are tried-and-true, bona fide 'dream destinations' and as such require planning weeks, if not months, in advance in order to snag the best room in the house. . . " (page 18).

Introductory materials include a series of travel itineraries, such as Paris to Provence.
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