SUMMARY

• Professor engineers marathon journeys - and physiological advances
• The Red, White, and Blue goes green with new environmental legislature
• French First Lady gives first-rate performance
• France navigates toward new maritime policy
• France finds châteaux stimulating, culturally and economically
• Chicago goes crazy over Fous de Bassin
• No summer holidays for French-American relations
• An illuminating display of French ingenuity
• In depth - Paris Plage brings sand and sun to the Seine
• Pipe dream comes true with Parisian tunnel
• Ma Chaîne Étudiante channels student resources
• Prepare for a new set of wheels
• French say oui to Obama and U.S.
• Guinguettes revive riverside Joie de Vivre
• Hidden treasures in Paris
• Comic book Museum draws crowds in Angoulême
• It's show time for the Festival d'Avignon
• "Cheers" to four hundred years of Lake Champlain's name