Love story sparks up French presidential campaign
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LA ROCHELLE, France  - A story of love and rivalry   is spicing up the French Socialists' presidential race, with   revealing photos and bedroom gossip fanning the campaign.
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France's Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal is shaking up her campaign team to boost her ratings.
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What do thumping beats and rap music have  to do with France's presidential election?
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The conservative French President reaches across party lines in filling a key foreign-affairs post
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Can S&#201;gol&#200;ne Royal's feminine campaigning style get her elected to France's top job?
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After a plummet in the polls, the once-hot  Socialist candidate tries to rejuvenate her campaign for the French presidency with an appeal to her base
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Polls show a tight three-way contest in France's presidential race, with a centrist former education minister just a few points behind the two established candidates. But that's only half the story. Six weeks before balloting begins, at least 40 percent of those asked said they still don't know whom they want as president, leaving the race wide open.
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French newspapers reported Monday that President Nicolas Sarkozy is romancing supermodel-turned-pop singer Carla Bruni, just two months after his divorce.
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Polls show a tight three-way contest in France's presidential race, with a centrist former education minister just a few points behind the two established candidates.Comment
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She brought excitement to French politics with her bid to become the nation's first woman president, but Segolene Royal now appears on the verge of seeing her campaign implode.
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The presidential candidates are wild about Harry. And Teddy. And Martin?
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French presidential hopeful Nicolas  Sarkozy was accused by his rivals of xenophobia and flirting  with far-right voters on Friday after proposing to create a  ministry for immigration and national identity.
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Polls show a tight three-way contest in France's presidential race. Forty percent of those polled said they still don't know whom they want as president
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France and Britain are locked in a long but stormy love affair, French President Jacques Chirac said just days before his cross-Channel trip to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the nations' Entente Cordiale.
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Amid reports he'll wed, the French president's popularity wanes -- though clearly not with Carla Bruni
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If front-runners Nicolas Sarkozy or Segolene Royal stumble in their race for the French presidency &#151; and that's a very big "if" &#151; then a centrist rising slowly but surely in opinion polls is ready to pounce.
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The French once ignored the sex lives of their leaders. But Carla Bruni, the president's girlfriend, is now front page news