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  • Sign post for a desolate Place Balourous on wasteland scrub near Kourou River, in colonial quarter of Kourou, French Guiana.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Tourist feet and macabre fish exhibits in display jars  at Museum of Guyanese Culture, Cayenne, French Guiana. .
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  • Young boy runs through town of Kourou in French Guiana, home of the European Space Agency's Spaceport.
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  • Visitors stand near a weathered launchpad at the European Space Agency's Kourou space station in French Guiana.  .
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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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  • Satellite dishes in a ghetto housing estate in town of Kourou in French Guiana, home of the European Space Agency's Spaceport.
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  • A restaurant business shut up for the night in the new quarter of Kourou in colonial French Guiana
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  • Fading sign advertising Kodak films attached to fading architecture in new colonial quarter of Kourou in French Guiana
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  • Taking telephone orders near rocket painting at the Délice restaurant in the old quarter of Kourou, French Guiana..
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  • Tropical imagery and music speaker at the Délice restaurant in the old quarter of Kourou, French Guiana..
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  • Catholic Creoles dress vehicles with Mary during celebrations at religious festival on streets in colonial quarter of Kourou in French Guiana
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  • Tourist boatman reaches to grab a drifting longboat on the Kourou River in French Guiana.
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  • Visitors stand near a weathered launchpad at the European Space Agency's Kourou space station in French Guiana.  .
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  • Young men in a ghetto housing estate in town of Kourou in French Guiana, home of the European Space Agency's Spaceport.
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  • Razor-wire and fencing protects garden shrubs and plant stocks at a town garden centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
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  • Signpost in Kourou, named after English gravity scientist, Sir Isaac Newton in French Guiana, home of ESA's Spaceport.
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  • European mother and child board car near traditional ramshackle Creole house in town of Sinnamary, French Guiana.
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  • Traditional ramshackle Creole house in the town of Sinnamary, French Guiana.
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  • Odd wall advert for pet grooming and hairdressing in impoverished new quarter of Kourou in colonial French Guiana
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  • Ariane rocket launch and satellite models standing in the office of Michel Bartolomey, Head of Arianespace, French Guiana
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  • A hot tropical landscape with water tap and satellite tracking dish at the VT Merlin Diane Tracking station, French Guiana
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  • A VT Merlin satellite tracking dish appears to blow clouds across a blue sky at the Diane Tracking station, French Guiana
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  • Old weathered loudspeakers stand overlooking a old launchpad at the European Space Agency's Kourou facility in French Guiana.
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  • Ariane 5 rocket models in the foyer of Arianespace's Galilee building at the European Space Agency's Spaceport. French Guiana
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  • Aged warning sign and spotlight at a side entrance of the European Space Agency's Spaceport at Malmanoury Creek French Guiana
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  • Joel Barre, Director of Guiana Space Center in his office at the European Space Agency's Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana.
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  • Secure razor wire and fencing keeps tresspassers out from the European Space Agency's Neptune buildings in French Guiana. .
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  • Secure razor wire and fencing keeps tresspassers out from the European Space Agency's Neptune buildings in French Guiana. .
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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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  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Young technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Sterile technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Sterile technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Sterile technician constructs European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Peeling mural of golf club trolley on the side of green container parked near the European Space Agency's Kourou Spaceport.
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  • Electrical cable cabinets in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency's Kourou space center..
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  • Sterile technicians construct European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne module at Kourou Spaceport.
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  • A man of Creole descent relaxes late-afternoon in front of a mural showing a scene of Parisian life, in colonial Kourou.
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  • In front of a closed Ecomax supermarket, a cyclist pedals past heap of rubbish lying in colonial Kourou car park
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  • A full-scale model of a 50.5 meter-high European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 rocket at museum of Guiana Space Centre
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  • A full-scale model of a 50.5 meter-high European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 rocket at museum of Guiana Space Centre
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  • Ariane 5 rocket booster cradle in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency, Kourou..
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  • Technician manager with Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency..
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
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  • Night-time satellite rocket launch into cloud of Spaceway 3 for Hughes network Systems and BSAT-3a for Lockheed Martin.
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • European Space Agency technicians at Ariane launch control monitor rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors the rocket systems hours before satellite launch
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  • Detail of an Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency's Kourou center
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  • Member country flags on Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency..
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  • An Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency, Kourou..
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  • An Ariane 5 rocket booster in Europropulsion's Booster Integration Building at European Space Agency, Kourou..
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
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  • Arianespace hosting post-launch party for European Space Agency Hughes network Systems and Lockheed Martin clients at Kourou.
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  • Presentations at post-launch party for European Space Agency Hughes network Systems and Lockheed Martin clients at Kourou.
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  • Arianespace buffet at post-launch party for European Space Agency Hughes network Systems and Lockheed Martin clients at Kourou
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  • US NASA employees visit future launchpad of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) Soyuz launch in ESA's spaceport.
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  • A young lady European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control oversees the flow of procedures hours before a rocket launch
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  • TV screens at Jupiter Control Center show launch readiness status of a European Space Agency's Ariane satellite rocket
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  • Press conference given to media at the European Space Agency's Jupiter Control Center hours before launch of Ariane satellite
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  • Arianespace buffet at post-launch party for European Space Agency Hughes network Systems and Lockheed Martin clients at Kourou
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  • Arianespace hosting post-launch party for European Space Agency Hughes network Systems and Lockheed Martin clients at Kourou.
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  • Writer Alain de Botton stands by a mural of a launching Roskosmos Soyuz rocket while researching his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hamish Hamilton, UK 2009) at ESA's Kourou Spaceport
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A typical old French house window and shutters with a curious cat in the French town of Gonesse, north of Paris.
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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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  • 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). (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Faded poster showing Caucasian French adults and children in Pons, Charente-Maritime, France.
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  • French aviation enthusiasts at an airshow at Le Mans in northern 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • On the day French President Emmanuel Macron visits London to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's famous wartime broadcast calling French citizens to arms against Nazi occupiers, the British Royal Air Force's Red Arrows aerobatic team lead their French aviation counterparts, La Patrouille de France, over Nelson's 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 Gaulle's famous wartime broadcast calling French citizens to arms against Nazi occupiers, the British Royal Air Force's Red Arrows aerobatic team lead their French aviation counterparts, La Patrouille de France, over Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, on 18th June 2020, in London, England.
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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. ....http://www.france-voyage.com/en/
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  • The battlefield memorial inside the walled Hougoumont Farm, to the soldiers of Napoleon's 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 Napoleon's 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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  • The battlefield memorial inside the walled Hougoumont Farm, to the soldiers of Napoleon's 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 Napoleon's 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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  • A statue of the French Imperial Eagle, still watching over the battlefield exhibitions of the Panorama and Lion's Mound at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The French Imperial Eagle refers to the figure of an eagle on a staff carried into battle as a standard by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars. Although they were presented with regimental colours, the regiments of Napoleon I tended to carry at their head the imperial eagle. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  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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  • A statue of the French Imperial Eagle, still watching over the battlefield exhibitions of the Panorama and Lion's Mound at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. The French Imperial Eagle refers to the figure of an eagle on a staff carried into battle as a standard by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars. Although they were presented with regimental colours, the regiments of Napoleon I tended to carry at their head the imperial eagle. Waterloo was fought  on 18 June 1815 between a French army under Napoleon Bonaparte,  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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  • An image of French swimming champion Yannick Agnel  stands on an ad for energy corporation EDF, one of the Olympic sponsor partners in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Young women stand to admire him and have their photos next to his athletic figure outside the EDF corporate pavillion. EDF Energy has installed monitoring technology at sports venues across the Olympic park to show real-time energy consumption at the 2012 games. Agnel is a French swimmer and national record holder in the 200 and 400 m freestyle. Yannick Agnel (born June 9, 1992 in Nîmes) is a French swimmer and national record holder in the 200 and 400 m freestyle (long course). Agnel is also a nine-time medalist at the European Junior Swimming Championships. He has won two Olympic gold medals, both at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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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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