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French actor Jean Rochefort (C) and French filmmaker Elie Chouraqui (R) attend France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Fabio Fognini Men's Singles 3rd Round tennis match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, on June 1, 2012 in Paris.

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  • Milwaukee museum hosts French posters exhibit

    Mary Weaver Chapin says the posters covered billboards, scaffolding, Morris columns, kiosks and shop windows throughout Paris in the late 1800s.She says the works celebrated the dawn of new entertainment, new products and new technology."Posters of Paris: 9:28 AM Read more »

  • Putin visits Berlin, Paris amid divide over Syria

    Putin can expect to face pressure from the leaders of Germany and France for a change of heart on Syria when he visits Berlin and Paris on Friday -- but there's little sign that the Russian president is prepared to tighten the diplomatic screws on Bashar Assad.Putin's 3:26 AM Read more »

  • New French campaign fights counterfeit fashion

    -- Below the steps of Paris' Sacre Coeur church, four sellers of fake Dior sunglasses run off past a group of tourists."The police came, so they ran," said kiosque worker Nicole Barsky. "It's always the same. They'll be back selling in five minutes."In tourist   Read more »

  • Paris plane crash spurs cultural growth in Atlanta

    of the crash victims put their lives back together.Penny Hart was a 19-year-old college sophomore studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when her mother, Henrietta Collier Armstrong Ayer, came over on the trip. They ate dinner together the night before the crash."It   Read more »

  • French president defends early Afghan withdrawal

    the year -- well ahead of the end of the alliance's combat mission at the close of 2014.The French president said that while Paris will withdraw its 2,000 combat troops -- out of a total of 3,400 troops plus 150 gendarmes -- by Dec. 31, it was not renouncing   Read more »

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About Paris

Paris is the capital city of France. Situated on the banks of the river Seine in north-central France, it is also the capital of the Île-de-France région (also known as "Paris Region"), which encompasses Paris and its suburbs. Paris had an estimated mid-2004 population of 2,144,700. The Paris urban area, extending well beyond the city boundaries, has an estimated population of 9.93 million. The Paris metropolitan area stood at 11.5 million in 1999 and is one of the most populated urban areas in Europe.

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