Charles De Gaulle

Charles De Gaulle Getting Friendlier

www.nytimes.com | Posted 03.30.2012

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PARIS — Charles de Gaulle is the second-largest European airport in terms of passengers — 61 million last year — and the seventh-largest worldwi...

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Paris Airports Downplay Strike Impacts

AP | Posted 04.07.2012

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PARIS — Air France and other airlines have so far limited the damage on Monday from a strike by aviation industry workers by canceling or resche...

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Jacqueline Kennedy's Memories of John F. Kennedy Are Riveting as History -- and as Therapy

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.18.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

Whatever love meant for them, Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy did love one another. In death, she gave him the greatest gift a widow can -- she created a legend, Camelot. We know better. And yet the legend endures.

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Charles De Gaulle Airport Evacuated

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — Travelers spent Christmas Eve camped in airports in Paris and Brussels instead of at feast-laden family tables, after new snowfall and s...

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Snow Pounds Paris, Closes Eiffel Tower (PHOTOS)

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS (AP) - Heavy snow in Paris on Wednesday shut down the city's main airport, its bus system and the Eiffel Tower. Elsewhere in Europe, bad weather...

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France: Impressions of a Passer-By

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dorian de Wind

I am not a French history expert or a Francophile. I am merely commenting on how a brief visit to France, a few conversations, and visiting some "concrete examples" of French gratitude and respect have altered my perceptions -- perhaps misconceptions -- of the French people and of their recent history.

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The Red Cross Hotel (Part Five)

Brigid Brett | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brigid Brett

"Good afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Brett," the customs officer says. "How was your vacation?" "It was bad," I say. "It was very, very bad. We spent two nights in a French detention center."

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The Red Cross Hotel (Part Two)

Brigid Brett | Posted 11.17.2011

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Brigid Brett

She politely tells us they are only following regulations, that if you enter Europe without the Schengen visa, this is the consequence.

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The Fool's Errand

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Bruno Sanz

Change the names, dates and particulars of the Algerian War, the Vietnam War and Soviet war in Afghanistan, and the history of mighty powers recycles itself in Af-Pak-Iraq.

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Obama Bows, Conservatives Bitch, Reality Bites

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jackson Williams

President Obama bowed this week when greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito, and the conservative media and blogosphere went positively apoplectic.

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Carla & Carlito: Cartoon Book Skewers French First Couple

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Magda Abu-Fadil

Carla & Carlito: Ou La vie du Chateau, is a loaded 64-page hardback cartoon story that delights in the players' clawing their way to the top.

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The Short End of The Socialist Stick

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Jenkins

What we have is De Gaulle-style socialism (state-funded corporations, cronyism, an overstuffed military), but without free and decent French schools, doctors and trains.

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