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Think of Bordeaux and the names of all the great French chateaux come tripping off the tongue: Lafite, Latour, Margaux, Haut-Brion and Mouton Rothschild.

Share + Comments Nov 24, 2009 9:05 am US/Eastern LOS ANGELES 1 of 1 Alexandra Kerry attends the Akvinta Presents 'A Night of Hollywood Domino' at The House at Cannes during the 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2009 in Cannes, France.

Damien Traille was given the starting job at full back in the French side to play New Zealand in Marseille on Saturday.

Jacques Chirac, the former president of France, who is making a rock-star tour of the country to promote his memoir, was caught making what has been described as an off-colour remark after posing with a dark-skinned bystander for a photo.

Actor Dustin hoffman arrives at the Cesar Film Awards 2009 at the Theatre du Chatelet on February 27, 2009 in Paris, France.

Albert Camus' children are torn about whether to allow the Nobel Prize-winning author's remains to be moved from southern France to Paris' Pantheon, the final resting place of other French greats like Voltaire and Victor Hugo.

Charlie Chaplin's last home in Switzerland will be turned into a permanent place of pilgrimage for fans of the actor who immortalized the "Little Tramp," one of his sons said Monday.

Were Franz Kafka alive today - and were he to have developed an uncharacteristic interest in European city breaks - it would be interesting to know what he made of the latest addition to France 's panoply of weekend getaway options.

Veteran Leonard Lucas still has vivid memories of World War II. "I was in the artillery; I remember the foxholes, mud and rain," says Lucas, 90, of Valley City.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's rocky relationship with France's literary elite has suffered a fresh blow after his plan to transfer Albert Camus' remains to the Pantheon was rejected by the great writer's son, amid claims of political opportunism.

Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year.

Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced several global healthcare customer wins including Children's Hospital & Medical Center of Omaha, Hosta, The Clermont-Ferrand Hospital and The University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology .

Former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin awarded here Saturday the Legion of Honour toa doctor in central China for his contribution to Sino-French cultural and medical exchanges.

Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year.

Cross-Channel ferry services have been subjected to delays as severe weather caused rough conditions, the Port of Dover said.

Computer games fan 'planned school massacre': Teen Blogger's 'Teacher Massacre Foiled': So which is he, a gamer or a blogger? Eh, more on that later.

Dole Food Co. said Thursday its third-quarter loss widened as the loss of two businesses cut into the fruit and vegetable producer's revenue compared with a year ago.

The research team describes the study as the first to show that "cigarettes themselves could be the direct source of exposure to a wide array of potentially pathogenic microbes among smokers and other people exposed to secondhand smoke." Still, the researchers caution that the public health implications are unclear and urge further research.

South Africa wing Bryan Habana has been cleared of kicking French wing Vincent Clerc and is free to play in Saturday's game against Italy, disciplinary officials said on Tuesday.

A short film, described as New Zealand's "first vampire Western", has been selected to screen at a French short film festival early next year.