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By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(July 15) -- Just when things seemed as if they couldn't get much worse for France's image, already tarnished by its disgraced soccer team, a messy financial scandal involving the country's richest woman and a president with his lowest approval ratings ever, the government just launched a brand-new $2 million promotional website to great fanfare and then watched as it promptly crashed. It's been down ever since. Visitors to the much-ballyhooed France.fr, which was to serve "as a major promotional tool for France's image abroad," found only an apology today and an explanation that the site ...
Bastille Day 2010: Top 5 French News Stories
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 14) -- Today is Bastille Day in France and in French enclaves around the world. July 14 marks the day in 1789 when French citizens stormed the Bastille, a prison and fortress in Paris. The storming of the Bastille was one of the first events that set off the long and bloody French Revolution. As the world wishes France a Happy Bastille Day, Surge Desk looks at some of the more recent news events our French friends are generating these days. 1. African Troops March in Bastille Day Parade Troops from African countries that were formerly French colonies were invited to march in the ...
Nicolas Sarkozy Embroiled in Campaign Finance Scandal
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyHe's captivating. He's tough. And he loves a challenge. But all that may not be enough to save President Nicolas Sarkozy of France as he fights for his political life amid a burgeoning campaign finance scandal. At issue is whether Sarkozy accepted illegal cash donations to his 2007 presidential campaign from Liliane Bettencourt, the French heiress to the L'Oréal fortune and the world's third-richest woman. A former accountant to Ms. Bettencourt has asserted that Sarkozy regularly received cash payments from the heiress and said on one occasion, his campaign was given a cash donation of some ...
Sarkozy Denies Claims That L'Oreal Heiress Gave Him Cash
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France (July 6) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy today angrily denounced a report that France's richest woman helped illegally bankroll his successful 2007 presidential election. Paris' splashiest summer scandal in decades has exploded out of a court case involving Liliane Bettencourt, 87, the heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune, and her estranged daughter, who is contesting the more than $1 billion her mother gave to a longtime friend and society photographer. Remy de la Mauviniere, AP French President Nicolas Sarkozy denied on Tuesday that L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, ...
Judges Eye Secret Tapes in L'Oreal Heiress Trial
By not in system - AOL NewsNANTERRE, France (July 1) -- French judges on Thursday postponed a highly awaited trial involving France's richest woman because of surprising new evidence in the case of whether she fell prey to a schemer when she gave him $1.2 billion in gifts. The new evidence - tapes secretly recorded by L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt's butler - has thrown a twist into the case, implicating a government minister and embarrassing French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government. Judges postponed the trial indefinitely to give officials time to study the recordings. Thibault Camus, AP A photographer is ...
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