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  • Holding her doll, a young white child wearing a pink dress explores the Délice Restaurant in old Kourou, French Guiana, South America. The daughter of French parents who are in this French-administered colony in connection with the nearby European Space Agency (ESA). The girl is confident enough to leave her parents' side and appear in an open doorway. On the other side of the wall is a giant brightly-painted mural depicting a more traditional side of life in this tropical country. The word Guyane is the French name for Guiana. A female in national costume stands near a palm tree, local produce and vegetation. Meanwhile a dark-skinned Creole man sits on a stool smoking a cigarette chatting to unseen friends - a barfly occupying his usual lunchtime seat. It is a scene of internationalism, cross-culture and youth versus old age.
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  • A full-scale mock-up of a multinational 50.5 meter-high European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 rocket is lit by floodlights in an early tropical evening at the main entrance to Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, South America. Glowing orange by the warm lighting, it makes an impressive model against the fading equatorial sky. Seen in scale, a lone human figure stands at the foot of the launcher that in reality, sends massive 8,000 kg payloads into orbit for a variety of communications and International Space Station purposes. Powered by Snecma-made Vulcain engines and boosted by Europropulsion solid motors, these rockets are launched from this facility on the Guiana coast. The building to the left are the CNES offices belong to the French Space Agency.
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  • In a sterile clean room, one module section of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) called Jules Verne, is under construction by technicians of an integration team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The ATV cargo carrier is the world's largest and most complex orbiting spacecraft and is a new series of autonomous spaceships designed to re-supply the International Space Station with replacement cargo, propellant, water and oxygen to the orbital outpost. Launched in March 2008 and self-destructed with waste during its return to earth's atmosphere that September, it delivered 4.6 tonnes of payload to the ISS, including 1,150 kg of dry cargo, 856 kg of propellant for the Russian Zvezda module, 270 kg of drinking water and 21 kg of oxygen.
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  • Standing on weathered concrete at an old launchpad from a bygone age, space tourists stop to photograph the current Ariane 5 launchpad while on a tour of the European Space Agency at Kourou, French Guiana. They are mostly Japanese, representing their B-SAT communications satellite which is to be sent into orbit later that night alongside a US-made Hughes Corporation and Lockheed Martin technology. An American NASA space technician walks past the four Japanese as they hold cameras that record their souvenirs of a memorable day at this space facility deep in the South American rainforest. The orange bags carried by all are gas masks. Should the out of sight rocket booster explode or leak liguid propellant, dangerous fumes might overcome the visitors.
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  • The writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton stands in front of a mural of a Soyuz rocket of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) taking off from a mobile gantry at the European Space Agency (ESA). De Botton is in French Guiana researching his book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' published in April 2009. The illustration celebrates a future Russian mission if construction of their new facilities continues with the help of the French and other space agencies. Cosmonauts and technicians will ooccupy a purpose-built town near ESA's rocket complex. Alain de Botton (born Zurich, 1969) now lives in London. His best-selling books refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
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  • Hours before a European Space Agency Ariane 5 rocket launch, a computer monitor displays cryogenic data at the CDL3 launch centre at ESA's Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. It shows the status of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellant systems within a Vulcain engine. Stored in the launcher tanks and fed to the engine, they react chemically and expand in the engine combustion chamber then forced through the nozzle to provide the thrust that propels the vehicle into orbit. Cryogenic engines utilise propellants that are liquid under cryogenic conditions, at a temperature much lower than normal ambient conditions (-251°C for hydrogen and -184°C for oxygen). The advantage of cryogenic propellants is that they provide the highest thrust performance.
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  • Bay of Hane, Ua Huka Island, French Polynesia.
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  • Sailors from the cargo vessel Aranui loading and sitting on "Copra", dried coconut shells, Ua Huka Island, French Polynesia.
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  • Striped covers for electrical cables turn a right-angle turn to the left towards power cabinets  which are numbered 1 to 6 at the European Space Agency's Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket Booster Integration Building. Railings ensure that pedestrians keep to the  walkways without endangering health and safety, according to EU law. Elsewhere in this giant building the boosters that propel ESA rockets into space are integrated with their payloads.
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  • The French House pub in Soho, London, United Kingdom. Situated on Dean Street, the French House was one of the infamous hang-ous for artists in Soho.
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  • An Anglo-French cyclist flies the British Union Jack and French French Tricolour flags on his handelars as he cycles through south London, at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in London, UK.
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  • The French House pub in Soho, London, United Kingdom. Situated on Dean Street, the French House was one of the infamous hang-ous for artists in Soho.
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  • A typical old French house window and shutters with a curious cat sitting on the ledge in the French town of Gonesse, a town to the north of Paris. The puss sits looking at something close-by, surrounded by drying pine cones and beneath old fashioned lace curtains that have images of cats in their design. The exterior is slightly shabby, with unpainted and rusting features.
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  • A typical old French house window and shutters with a curious cat sitting on the ledge in the French town of Gonesse, a town to the north of Paris. The puss sits looking at something close-by, surrounded by drying pine cones and beneath old fashioned lace curtains that have images of cats in their design. The exterior is slightly shabby, with unpainted and rusting features.
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  • British and French customs officials shake hands during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side. As proof of Anglo-french relations between the two European states, an Entente Cordiale exists in this theatrical joke about bureaucracy between France and Britain. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
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  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
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  • Cows and livestock winter inside a barn on a family-run farm in the Alsace village of Boofzheim, on 13th October 1997, in Boofzheim, France. The cattle are owned by the Kessler family who have a herd of cows as well as ducks from which they make Foie-Gras. The farm is in the french village of Boofzheim, a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. Its name is probably derived from the French boeuf bull or ox.
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  • Awaiting the visit from his local country doctor to pay him a visit to his remote French farmhouse, an elderly gentleman sits alone in his favourite armchair. Uncertain what the future may hold, the man is old and frail and he looks down to the floor of this front room with worry across his face. He is suffering from cancer and may not live long but the presence of another human being, especially a doctor, is a small comfort from. Someone to share his concerns with and to seek advice from this terminal condition. It is a bright summer morning but even with the sun, it's a gloomy part of the house in which he lives alone.
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  • London, UK. Thursday 9th August 2012. London 2012 Olympic Games Park in Stratford. A French fan holds up a sign to say he is looking to exchange some tickets.
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  • French aviation enthusiasts at an airshow at Le Mans in norhtern France watch aerobatics overhead - in front of a scaled replica of The Flyer, the first powered aeroplane by the American Wright Brothers. The Wright Flyer is the first successful powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it for the first time on December 17th, 1903 for 12 seconds over 120 feet near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S. Today, the airplane is exhibited in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. though many scaled copies exist at similar events such as this.
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  • 'Wear what you want' protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.” (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • Wear what you want protest at the French embassy against the burkini ban for Muslim women on France’s beaches on 25th August 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Activists called on fellow supporters to descend on Knightsbridge saying “Come along to the French embassy and wear what you want - burkinis, bikinis, anything goes. Bring beach gear: beach umbrellas, towels, bat and ball, boules... Join us at the French embassy to show solidarity with French Muslim women and to call for the repeal of this oppressive law by the French Government.”
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  • During the Cannes Film Festival, we see a group of women taken from a very low angle , posing in bikinis and revealing swim wear for a frenzy of photographers on La Croisette, Cannes' sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. One blonde girl is looking down into the camera while we see only the hips, arms, and legs of the others as they parade their bodies in front of the media who are grouped tightly together with cameras and a sound microphone. Young women publicising movies or just themselves regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes  is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
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  • Member of restaurant staff taking a cigarette break outside Le Beaujolais wine bar on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. On the ground floor, Le Beaujolais is Londons oldest French wine bar whilst downstairs resides a restaurant and members only Club. Le Beaujolais is proud of its French tradition, which since 1972 has been providing a genuinely French atmosphere, in a little piece of France tucked away in the heart of London.
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  • A street sign in French and Tamil on the Rue Romain Rolland, Pondicherry, India. Pondicherry now Puducherry is a Union Territory of India and was a French territory until 1954 legally on 16 August 1962. The French Quarter of the town retains a strong French influence in terms of architecture and culture.
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  • Men play a game of Pétanque on some waste ground near the beach, Pondicherry, India. A French tourist has just thrown. Pondicherry now Puducherry is a Union Territory of India and was a French territory until 1954 legally on 16 August 1962. The French Quarter of the town retains a strong French influence in terms of architecture and culture.
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  • During the Cannes Film Festival, we see a group of girls from the Hawaiian Tropic sun cream company posing in bikinis and revealing swim wear for a frenzy of males of various ages on La Croisette, Cannes sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. They pose in the same corporate style for photographers around the world but here, young women publicising movies or just themselves, regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes  is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
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  • A group of Gendarme officers gather during the annual Bastille Day celebrations on the streets of the French capital. With arms folded they clearly have more of a wait before being called upon to officiate or even parade themselves. As the military might of the nation passes-by followed by the French President along Paris' Champs-Elysees in the French capital, citizens and security personnel gather along the boulevard.
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  • Member of restaurant staff taking a cigarette break outside Le Beaujolais wine bar on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. On the ground floor, Le Beaujolais is Londons oldest French wine bar whilst downstairs resides a restaurant and members only Club. Le Beaujolais is proud of its French tradition, which since 1972 has been providing a genuinely French atmosphere, in a little piece of France tucked away in the heart of London.
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  • Member of restaurant staff taking a cigarette break outside Le Beaujolais wine bar on 18th February 2020 in London, England, United Kingdom. On the ground floor, Le Beaujolais is Londons oldest French wine bar whilst downstairs resides a restaurant and members only Club. Le Beaujolais is proud of its French tradition, which since 1972 has been providing a genuinely French atmosphere, in a little piece of France tucked away in the heart of London.
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  • Photographed by leering men amid crowds during the Cannes Film Festival, a group of girls from the Hawaiian Tropic sun cream company pose in bikinis and reveal swimwear for a frenzy of males of various ages on La Croisette, Cannes sea front in the French Riviera resort, Cote d'Azur. They pose in the same corporate style for photographers around the world but here, young women publicising movies or just themselves, regularly strut along the beaches and pavements of this French town. The weather is typically bright for May with clear skies and high temperatures. Cannes is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Alpes-Maritimes région, Founded in 1939, the International Film Festival is one of the world's most prestigious and eccentric of celebrations of film and the cinema industry.
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  • On the day French President Emmanuel Macron visits London to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulles famous wartime broadcast calling French citizens to arms against Nazi occupiers, the British Royal Air Forces Red Arrows aerobatic team lead their French aviation counterparts, La Patrouille de France, over Nelsons column in Trafalgar Square, on 18th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • On the day French President Emmanuel Macron visits London to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulles famous wartime broadcast calling French citizens to arms against Nazi occupiers, the British Royal Air Forces Red Arrows aerobatic team lead their French aviation counterparts, La Patrouille de France, over Nelsons column in Trafalgar Square, on 18th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • An elderly and eccentric couple sit on a park bench in the French Mediterranean resort of Juan-les-Pins near Antibes, with their own pet dog on a lead while watching an Afghan Hound which struts past in a showy manner. The shaggy Afghan's coat resembles the colour of the lady's own pet and the texture of her own coat. It is around mid-day and looks warm but the couple are dressed for deepest winter, oblivious to the warm sunshine. The hairy Afghan strides ceremoniously and with great style, while the small pooch on the peoples' lead looks nervous and uncomfortable. Juan-les-Pins is a town in the commune of Antibes, in the Alpes-Maritimes, in southeastern France, on the French Riviera (Côte d'Azur).
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  • The battlefield memorial inside the walled Hougoumont Farm, to the soldiers of Napoleons Grande Armee, killed at Waterloo, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The farm became an epicentre of fighting in the Battle as it was one of the first places where British and other allied forces faced Napoleons Army. 12,000 allied troops defending 14,000 French. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Wide cobbled avenue in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs. Père Lachaise is in the 20th arrondissement, and is reputed to be the world's most visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the graves of those who have enhanced French life over the past 200 years. It is also the site of three World War I memorials. Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise- or officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) containing the remains of a million French and foreign dead.
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  • Decorated grave for singer and actor Gilbert Becaud, in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Gilbert Bécaud (1927 – 2001 was a French singer, composer and actor, known as "Monsieur 100.000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love". He remained a popular artist for nearly fifty years, identifiable in his dark blue suits, with a white shirt and "lucky tie"; blue with white polka dots. Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise- or officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) containing the remains of a million French and foreign dead.
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  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
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  • A landscape of Bleriot Plage near Calais on the northern French coast, where the first-ever international flight between France and the southern English coast took place by the French aviator Louis Bleriot on 25th July 1909. He flew from the beach at Sangatte, to the cliffs at Dover to claim the prize offered by the Daily Mail. Nowadays, French families use the sand and dunes as a holiday beach destination using inflatable dinghies to paddle in the surf. The Bleriot crossing took 37 minutes in his aeroplane, Blériot XI, built in collaboration with Raymond Saulnier. It was powered by a 3 cylinder 25 horsepower (19 kW) engine.
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  • Scene inside a French country village house. This classical place with it's objects looks like a still life of French living. An overloaded power socket
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  • Scene inside a French country village house. This classical place with it's objects looks like a still life of French living. An overloaded power socket
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  • Scene inside a French country village house. This classical place with it's objects looks like a still life of French living. Fruit and cooking utensils
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  • The celebrated tomb of Polish-born composer Frédéric François Chopin in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, Chopin grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; he composed many mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20. Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise- or officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) containing the remains of a million French and foreign dead.
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  • A French sports fan holds up his national flag in the air as he walks towards a venue in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Along with the Dutch and many Baltic countries, the French made their way across the Channel (La Manche) in great numbers to see their sports heroes perform in the various locations around London.
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  • In the privacy of her own country home, an elderly French lady is about to have eye-drops administered by her local doctor in the Vosges town of Ban de Laveline. Holding her eyelids up with a thumb in preparation of giving the woman the necessary medicine, the young health professional reaches for his equipment and the lady is left looking rather startled and uncomfortable for a few moments as her eye stares wildly. We are in her small cottage on the outskirts of town and the doctor is making his rounds to various patients unable to attend his daily surgery. The lady wears a colourful apron, typical of French working people, and is possibly in her seventies, living alone with only kind neighbours to ensure her safety. <br />
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  • A French Dassault-Breguet Mirage military jet interceptor/fighter stands on a pedestal in the Place de la Concorde, Paris during an aviation display weekend along the Champs Elysées. Passers-by seem oblivious to this celebration of French aviation as they walk through the Parisian square, the scene of public executions during the revolution. The Mirage seems to be climbing off its platform and up into the cloudless summer afternoon sky as a young child sits on top of his father's shoulders and passengers in a city bus seem trapped behind the windows. Its is a scene of incongruous moments, a surreal appearance of frightening military technology amid the calm of a public place. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Scene inside a French country village house. This classical place with it's objects looks like a still life of French living. The kitchen
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  • Scene inside a French country village house. This classical place with it's objects looks like a still life of French living. The kitchen table.
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  • Scene inside a French country village house. This classical place with it's objects looks like a still life of French living. The kitchen
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  • Scene inside a French country village house. This classical place with it's objects looks like a still life of French living. Fruit, nuts, lavendar and Duval.
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  • Waxwork models of Napoleons generals incl Marechal Soult, centre, re-enact the night before the Battle of Waterloo forming an exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battles bicentenary, visitors experience the history of Napoleonic Europe and the armies of both the French and allied armies on that day. The Battle of Waterloo was fought 18 June 1815. A French army under Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: an Anglo-led Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, resulting in 41,000 casualties.
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  • Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.<br />
Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island. Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley in the eastern part of Nuku Hiva.
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  • Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.<br />
Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island. Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley in the eastern part of Nuku Hiva.
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  • From a low angle looking upwards to the building exterior of the Hotel Negresco on the Promenade de Anglais, Nice. We see the colourful orange light bulbs and the overall green hue from sodium illumination and the blue of the evening sky. In the foreground is an example of the ubiquitous palm trees that line the Côte d'Azur. The Hotel Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais on the Baie des Anges in Nice, France was named for Henri Negresco (1868-1920) who had the palatial hotel constructed in 1912. Noted for its doormen dressed in the manner of the staff in 18th-century elite bourgeois households, complete with red-plumed postilion hats, the hotel also offers renowned gourmet dining at Le Chantecler. In 2003 the Hotel Negresco was listed by the government of France as a National Historic Building. Nice is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur région, it is a commune and the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Alpes-Maritimes département.
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  • Fundamentalist Christians march down Bourbon Street  carrying their huge placards with accusatory and inflammatory rhetoric: ADULTERERS, FORNICATORS; HELL, during Mardi Gras on 25th February 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Busloads of  zealots show up each year just before Carnival. They rally on the outskirts of the French Quarter, driving each other into religious frenzies, then march into the French Quarter dragging huge wooden crosses and evangelising the amused crowd with a missionary zeal.
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  • Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.<br />
Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island. Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley in the eastern part of Nuku Hiva.
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  • Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.<br />
Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island. Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley in the eastern part of Nuku Hiva.
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  • A male snowboarder in La Plagne ski resort in the French Tarentaise Valley
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  • A male snowboarder in La Plagne ski resort in the French Tarentaise Valley
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  • A male snowboarder in La Plagne ski resort in the French Tarentaise Valley
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  • Detail of a farmers tough hand holding a crusty ham sandwich during a lunchbreak on the mans land near the Alsace village of Boofzheim, on 13th October 1997, in Boofzheim, France. The farm is in the french village of Boofzheim, a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. Its name is probably derived from the French boeuf bull or ox.
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  • Celebrated grave for the Dublin-born playright and known homosexual, Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. 19th century Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde once quipped: "One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." He died in Paris at only 46, impoverished and broken down from years of being villified by Victorian society. He was buried at Père Lachaise with a modest tomb, but a memorial was later erected. Today the monument is covered in lipstick marks left by ardent visitors. Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise- or officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France (44 hectares (110 acres) containing the remains of a million French and foreign dead.
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  • Jackson Square park, with horse and carts awaiting riders,French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. walking down the street in the French Quarter,
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  • Man dancing on a street corner in the French Quarter on 11th March 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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  • La Plagne ski resort in the French Tarentaise Valley
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