Above the Clouds, the French Glimpse the Old Grandeur
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Higher than the Eiffel Tower, the Millau bridge is a triumph of engineering and imagination.
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Nestling deep inside the Ardennes forest near Liege, Spa-Francorchamps is probably the most visually inspiring stop on the Grand Prix tour.
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The French location services firm likes the 'bird's eye view' offered in Virtual Earth.
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As air force jets screamed overhead, French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's tallest bridge Tuesday, a stunning masterpiece of engineering that will carry drivers 270 metres (885 feet) above ground.
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The French seem to take intermittent pride in being the homeland of the satirist Voltaire.
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For France, those were the days. The French aren't pining for the return of their 19th-century empire, but the 200th anniversary Thursday of Napoleon Bonaparte's crowning as emperor is a reminder of their country's former glory.
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The supersonic aircraft Concorde returned to one of its birthplaces when a museum devoted to the sleek plane opened near Bristol.
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Military vessels and aircraft streamed along France's Mediterranean coastline Sunday in an impressive ceremony commemorating World War II Allied landings in the region 60 years ago that proved a follow-up to the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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Piercing the sky above the verdant hills of southern France, a roadway bridge hailed as the tallest in the world was officially inaugurated Tuesday.
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The bridge, in southern France, is a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists nearly 300m above the valley of the Tarn River.
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Holiday on ice takes on new meaning when you're high above the rooftops of Paris doing figure eights inside the Eiffel Tower. During the 115 years of the Eiffel Tower's existence, it has added refreshment stands, trinket shops and fancy restaurants &#151; but nothing quite matches the skating rink in the sky that opened to the public Friday.
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MILLAU, France -- President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge yesterday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees, and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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In China, a sprawling lakefront is redeveloped with an eye toward the past.
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Thundering fighter jets streamed the blue, white and red of the French tricolor as President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday dedicated the world&#39;s tallest bridge, a skyway
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Allan Little reflects on the highs and lows of air travel as the Airbus A380 'superjumbo' is unveiled in France.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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Mickey Mouse, enduring symbol of U.S.   popular culture, breaks into a bastion of French high art this   week, when the Grand Palais in Paris stages an exhibition   focusing on the sources of Walt Disney's art.