PARIS - FEBRUARY 01: Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov arrives before a working lunch with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on February 1, 2010 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The visit is the first by the leader of the ex-Soviet state and comes amidst criticism from human rights groups. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

PARIS - FEBRUARY 01: Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov arrives before a working lunch with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on February 1, 2010 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The visit is the first by the leader of the ex-Soviet state and comes amidst criticism from human rights groups.

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  4. French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace on March 20, 2010, as part of the Francophonie International Day organized by the International Francophonie (French-Speaking countries) Organization. According to the Observatoire de la langue française (French language observatory), some 200 million people are French-speaking around the world.
  5. French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace on March 20, 2010, as part of the Francophonie International Day organized by the International Francophonie (French-Speaking countries) Organization. According to the Observatoire de la langue française (French language observatory), some 200 million people are French-speaking around the world.
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  8. French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace on March 20, 2010, as part of the Francophonie International Day organized by the International Francophonie (French-Speaking countries) Organization. According to the Observatoire de la langue française (French language observatory), some 200 million people are French-speaking around the world.
  9. French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace on March 20, 2010, as part of the Francophonie International Day organized by the International Francophonie (French-Speaking countries) Organization. According to the Observatoire de la langue française (French language observatory), some 200 million people are French-speaking around the world.
  10. French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace on March 20, 2010, as part of the Francophonie International Day organized by the International Francophonie (French-Speaking countries) Organization. According to the Observatoire de la langue française (French language observatory), some 200 million people are French-speaking around the world.
  11. French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace on March 20, 2010, as part of the Francophonie International Day organized by the International Francophonie (French-Speaking countries) Organization. According to the Observatoire de la langue française (French language observatory), some 200 million people are French-speaking around the world.
  12. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) congratulates French politician Simone Veil after a ceremony at the Institut de France in Paris March 18, 2010. Veil was inducted into the French Academy (Academie Francaise) as an 'Immortels'.
  13. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) congratulates French politician Simone Veil after a ceremony at the Institut de France in Paris March 18, 2010. Veil was inducted into the French Academy (Academie Francaise) as an 'Immortels'.
  14. France's president Nicolas Sarkozy (L) congratulates French politician Simone Veil after a ceremony at the Institut de France in Paris March 18, 2010. Veil was inducted into the French Academy (Academie Francaise) as an 'Immortels'.
  15. French Simone Veil (R), an Auschwitz survivor and the first elected president of the European parliament, is congratulated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) as she joined today the prestigious Academie Francaise, the guardian of the French language, on March 18, 2010 at the Institut de France (French prestigious Arts and Sciences Institution which includes five academies) in Paris. The 82-year-old Veil, a former French minister who ranks among the country's most respected politicians, is only the sixth woman to join the 40 'immortals'. Veil's tattooed Auschwitz prisoner number, 78651, was also engraved on the sword that was presented to her by former president Jacques Chirac during a ceremony at the French Senate.
  16. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) is greeted by Academician Helene Carrere d'Encausse (2nd L) and Chancellor of the French Institute Gabriel de Broglie (2nd R) as he arrives at the Institut de France in Paris March 18, 2010 to attend the ceremony to induct French politician Simone Veil into the French Academy (Academie Francaise) as an 'Immortel'.

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