SUMMARY

• French Defense Minister visits U.S.
• Chinese President Hu Jintao in France
• Villepin calls for Russian-E.U. strategic partnership
• Anti-corruption forum held in Paris with Kofi Annan
• Dr. Montagnier recognized by U.S. for vital HIV work
• U.S. cheese-making nun honored by France
• Alligator blueprints discovered in Paris
• In depth: Religion(s) In France
• France’s 2004 economic resolutions
• Mars Express finds water, sends first 3-D photos of Mars
• France embracing the Internet
• Crime down in France
• New, continual Census Program launched
• France celebrates bicentennial of Napoleonic Code
• Paris starts Year of the Monkey in style
• 2004 is George Sand year!
• All that jazz
• French fashion and the modern woman