Sept. 10, 1977: Heads Roll for the Last Time in France
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The writing is already on the wall for the guillotine when France's last criminal mounts the scaffold to pay for his crime.
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The 60th anniversary of the last major confrontation on the western front between the Allies and Nazis is marked in Belgium.
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It was 60 years ago today, in Paris. I had been waiting a long time for this moment, when I would finally see the enemy in defeat.
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PLYMOUTH -- It's last call at Revolution, and the end of an era for Plymouth.
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French President Jacques Chirac is expected to announce his retirement today after a 45-year career in politics.Comment
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A celebration marking Paris' 60th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany is planned next week. But nothing official was planned for a more somber anniversary Wednesday &#151; the liberation of a Jewish detention camp outside Paris that ended one of the most shameful episodes in modern French history.
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Robert H. Bork remembers his ambivalence in 1989 as the Berlin Wall came down and dungarees and rock music poured into the former East Germany.
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Jacques Chirac was Paris mayor from 1977 to 1995 A former district mayor in Paris has gone on trial charged with vote-rigging at a time when President Jacques Chirac was mayor of the capital.
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France on Saturday marked what President Jacques Chirac called a sad anniversary -- 100 days since two French reporters were taken hostage in Iraq.
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It was a fitting farewell for a man   who once dreamed of being a rock star.
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PARIS  &#151; The official story goes like this: On the last night of Jim Morrison's life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to records, fell ill and died of heart failure in his bathtub at the age of 27. But rumors have always swirled around the death of The Doors frontman and, 36 years later, a former Paris nightclub manager is telling a different story.
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The Rolling Stones ended their two-year  world tour in their home town of London on Sunday, leaving fans  wondering if it would be their last ever show.
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PARIS Aug. 25, 2004 - Paris turned back the clock Wednesday for a grandiose fete to remember the tears, the joy and the euphoria that heralded the liberation of the French capital 60 years ago as it threw off the shackles of Nazi occupation.
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Now we know how it used to be for those French Foreign Legionnaires, dying of thirst, out of sweat, lost and hopeless, blinded by sandstorms, crawling through the desert - and then seeing Victoria Falls.
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Last Wednesday, on the the eve of Armistice Day, President Jacques Chirac presided over a moving ceremony in Les Invalides, the hospice-cum-church-cum-museum in central Paris which is the French militarys ...
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France's governing centre-right party, the UMP, holds its end-of-summer gathering in Marseille this weekend.
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Large crowds have lined Paris streets to witness military columns roll through marking the 60th anniversary of the cityâs liberation from German occupation.