SUMMARY

• French actress Marion Cotillard wins Best Actress Oscar
• Ariane 5 soars to success with the ATV
• New policy opens doors for France's underprivileged youth
• Québec celebrates 400^th anniversary
• France takes the helm of combined Task Force 150
• New England commemorates Samuel de Champlain in America
• New York's Fashion Week welcomes French designers
• In depth - La Francophonie: celebrating international linguistic and cultural community
• Europe connects to International Space Station
• France takes measures to improve road safety
• New steps toward improving nutrition
• 45^th agricultural show brings farming to the heart of Paris
• New initiatives within the French school system
• Charles de Gaulle : a museum of memories
• France celebrates anniversary of the birth of Simone de Beauvoir
• COSMOMANIA exhibit retraces 50 years of space exploration
• Exhibition on the Dreyfus affair presented in Boston
• "Beyond the Iconic" of Paris comes to Los Angeles