SUMMARY

• France hails Ivory Coast peace accords
• Darfur war criminals to be tried in international criminal court
• Frenchwoman completes Pacific crossing in rowboat
• France backs Annan’s U.N. reform project
• France welcomes stability pact reform
• Death of Prince Rainier of Monaco
• 3,000 new R&D jobs created
• A new approach to educational exchange
• Alliance Française’s stirring Spring tours
• French-U.S. team decipher background seismic noise
• In depth: Alexis de Tocqueville
• 35-Hour workweek made more flexible
• Ten years of French-Japanese nanotechnology cooperation
• De Gaulle voted greatest Frenchman
• French life expectancy exceeds 80!
• Return to the tap
• First exhibit of Neo-Impressionism in France
• New Alexandre Dumas book reveals who killed Nelson
• Business patronage takes off
• DC Area premiere of Life x 3