SUMMARY

• French Finance Minister in the limelight
• Vanity Fair and Bloomberg bring top politicians and Hollywood glitz to the French residence
• Haiti donors' conference assembles international dignitaries
• A pointed anniversary of the Louvre's pyramid
• Cannes Film Festival: reviews and regards on the Riviera
• An American celebration in Paris
• Al Pacino's Napoleon complex
• Etoiles get mixed into Houston's "Dance Salad"
• In depth - France tackles piracy in the Gulf of Aden
• Millions get animated about French films
• French surgeons perform groundbreaking procedure
• Le Figaro Magazine plants for the planet
• Kosher cuisine with a Parisian twist
• A day for nights: middle ages in the modern era
• A party that doesn't stink
• Petit walks tall above the rest
• Avant-gardens
• Brown University honors Aimé Césaire
• French ladies dazzle Atlanta