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  • Presidential candidate Francois Bayrou, of the UDF, gives a press conference at his capaign headquarters in Paris Mach 11, 2002.

  • Jean-Marie Le Pen pendant son dernier meeting a? Paris jeudi 18 avril 2002.

  • Le premier ministre Lionel Jospin et son gouvernement quittent le Palais de l'Elyse?e mercredi 24 avril, a? l'issu du dernier Conseil des Ministres de la legislature. (William Alix/Synchro-X)

  • Jacques Chirac, french president and candidate in the upcoming presidential elections, leaves a campaing meeting in Savigny Sur Orge, south of Paris, March 27, 2002.

  • In this image made from television, French President Jacques Chirac speaks during a televised address to the nation, Friday March 31, 2006 in Paris. Chirac said that he would press ahead with a contentious labor law that makes it easier to fire workers, but offered some concessions in the hope of calming furious protests and strikes.

  • Students hold up their student ID to vote during a general assembly at the Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle University to decide on the futur of their strike movement, in Paris April 10, 2006. Despite a decision by French President Jacques Chirac to scrap the First Job Contract (CPE) that has provoked weeks of protests and a political crisis, students decided to continue their strike and protests over a broad spectrum of social issues.

  • More than 500,000 students and workers march in Paris, France, and other French cities in the biggest show of anger yet at the "First Job Contract", a jobs plan known as CPE, that has led to street violence and threatens to weaken the government, Saturday March 18, 2006.

  • More than 500,000 students and workers march in Paris, France, and other French cities in the biggest show of anger yet at the "First Job Contract", a jobs plan known as CPE, that has led to street violence and threatens to weaken the government, Saturday March 18, 2006.

  • Rioters scuffle with anti-riot police on Paris' Republic square Tuesday, March 28, 2006, following a march against the first job contract law, known as CPE. More than one million demonstrators poured onto France's streets, and strikers shut down the Eiffel Tower and disrupted plane, train and bus services Tuesday in the largest nationwide protests so far against a new law that will make it easier to fire young people.

  • A youth taunts the police on Paris' Republic square Tuesday, March 28, 2006, following a march against the first job contract law, known as CPE. More than one million demonstrators poured onto France's streets, and strikers shut down the Eiffel Tower and disrupted plane, train and bus services Tuesday in the largest nationwide protests so far against a new law that will make it easier to fire young people.

  • Supporters of Segolene Royal, France's Socialist Party presidential candidate, react to the announcement of the results in the first round vote at the party headquarters in Paris, April 22, 2007. Royal and conservative opponent Nicolas Sarkozy made it to the second round.

  • President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Elysee Palace for the formal handover of power ceremony May 16, 2007, in Paris. A new era has opened in France as Sarkozy took over as president from Chirac.

  • French President Jacques Chirac, left, welcomes his successor Nicolas Sarkozy upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace for the formal handover of power ceremony May 16, 2007, in Paris. A new era has opened in France as Sarkozy took over as president from Chirac.

  • France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy lays a wreath at the Charles de Gaulle memorial statue on the Champs Elysees following the handover ceremony with former President Jacques Chirac at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 16, 2007.

  • France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy shakes hands with well-wishers on the Champs Elysees following the handover ceremony with former President Jacques Chirac at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 16, 2007.

  • Police snipers take position on a roof-top looking over the Elysee Palace during the arrival of the ministers for the first weekly cabinet meeting of the newly named government in Paris, May 18, 2007.

  • France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (5th L) poses with Prime Minister Francois Fillon (4th L) and the female members of his newly named government at the Elysee Palace, after the first weekly cabinet meeting, in Paris, May 18, 2007. From left: Health, Youth and Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot, Higher Education and Research Valerie Pecresse, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, Prime Minister Francois Fillon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Agriculture Minister Christine Lagarde, Culture and Communications Minister Christine Albanel, Justice Minister Rachida Dati, Housing Minister Christine Boutin.

  • French railway employees walk with communist-led CGT union banners during a protest march in Paris October 18, 2008. SNCF railway and public transport workers stage a nationwide strike over plans to scrap their pension privileges, the biggest test to date of President Nicolas Sarkozy's ability to push through reforms.

  • French railway employees walk with communist-led CGT union banners during a protest march in Paris October 18, 2008. SNCF railway and public transport workers stage a nationwide strike over plans to scrap their pension privileges, the biggest test to date of President Nicolas Sarkozy's ability to push through reforms.

  • About 400 Iranian nationals living in Paris demonstrate on Iena Square near the Iranian embassy against the fraud in Iran's presidential election that saw President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reelected in a landslide. The disputed presidential poll has prompted the biggest street protests in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution..Paris, FRANCE - 16/06/2009

  • Some 2000 supporters of France's far-right party Front National, lead by Jean-Marie Le Pen, attend their traditional annual May Day rally..Paris, FRANCE - 01/05/2009