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Once upon a time, a con man in France made money by flogging little bottles marked V ( vinaigre ) and H ( huile ) to naive tourists, telli...

India has confirmed the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter planes, totally made-in-France by Dassault . Details of the deal have not been ...

If you've visited France recently, you may have had an opportunity of seeing the great trains called TGV : Trains à grande vitesse ( hi...

Let’s suppose you’ve just ordered an impressive automobile, made in France, and that you suddenly learn that detailed technical descriptions...

Kuwait has just announced its purchase of 30 French Caracal helicopters, for a billion euros. France may be performing in a mediocre fa...

Last week, the French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian signed a contract of 350 million euros with the manufacturer Sagem for the purch...

Readers who know French will have understood that my title is an awkward attempt to translate our fear that « la France d’autrefois fout le...

The Airbus A350 —in competition with the Boeing 787—took off from Toulouse Blagnac less than an hour ago on its maiden flight.

In my blog post of 1 March 2010 entitled Australia's choice of fighter planes [ display ], I suggested that, instead of waiting for the...

People in France have known for decades that the French national railway system—called the SNCF —was implicated explicitly in the ignominiou...

Click the image to access a video that presents a project for the construction of a luxury liner that would be named France . The project is...

Just when the French acronym TGV [ train à grande vitesse ] has even found its way into English-language dictionaries [such as on my Macint...

In my recent article entitled Australia's submarines [ display ] , I suggested that there is insufficient political consciousness and s...

" It's normal that the weak resort to terrorism. " Apparently, that sentiment was expressed last Friday by Mouammar Kadhafi a...

After months of discussions, a merger was announced this morning between two major French corporations in the energy domain: state-owned Gaz...