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French town is named historic Civil War site
American cannon blasts bellowed in the English Channel 140 years ago, and bloodied bodies lined the deck of a sinking Confederate ship. Onlookers watched in horror from the Normandy coast.
On June 19, 1864, far from battlefields at home, the USS Kearsarge hunted down and sank a dreaded Confederate raider in one of the most important naval battles of the U.S. Civil War — off the coast of France.
The Confederate ship Alabama today lies where it sank under 198 feet of swirling currents about seven nautical miles off the French town of Cherbourg.
0 Read MoreFrench Novelist Francoise Sagan Dead
French novelist Francoise Sagan, known for her haunting novel, Bonjour Tristesse, died Friday at the age of 69.
The Agence France-Presse news agency reported Ms. Sagan died in a hospital in the Normandy town of Honfleur Friday evening. The news agency cited cardio-respiratory problems as the cause of death.
Doctors said the novelist had been admitted several times in recent months to the hospital, which was near her home.
Ms. Sagan catapulted to fame as a teenager, with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness). The bittersweet work depicted life of French bourgeois society at its most sophisticated and cynical. Ms. Sagan came from the same upper class surroundings that she wrote about.
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4 Read MoreLooking for a french penpal
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Monthy Python in Irak
Pleas watch this this is hilarious!!!!
http://manunice.site.voila.fr/news_report_from_Iraq.wmv
2 Read Morelooking for information on move to france
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4 Read MoreRabies scare mars French hunting season, spells death for runaways
The 2004 hunting season opens across much of France Sunday, but for enthusiasts in southwestern France this year will be different: hunters will be barred from using dogs because of last month’s rabies outbreak in the region.
Some 100,000 hunters in the departments of Dordogne, Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne have been ordered to leave their dogs at home or face a fine as authorities seek to prevent the pets becoming carriers of the disease.
Confinement to home was not the worst fate the animals faced this weekend, however.
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