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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. .
    aviation_corbis28-15-09-1998.jpg
  • Waxwork models of Napoleon's 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 battle's 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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  • A waxwork model of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte resting the night before the Battle of Waterloo, forms an exhibit inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's 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.
    waterloo_battlefield-08-25-03-2017.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's 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.
    waterloo_battlefield-16-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Waxwork models of Napoleon's 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 battle's 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.
    waterloo_battlefield-17-25-03-2017.jpg
  • Exhibits inside the Memorial 1815 exhibition at the Waterloo battlefield, on 25th March 2017, at Waterloo, Belgium. Inaugurated on the battle's 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.
    waterloo_battlefield-11-25-03-2017.jpg
  • 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.
    olympic_park65-10-08-2012.jpg
  • Ending France's Bastille Day parade, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, leave a trail of smoke over the pyramid peak of the Louvre art museum in the centre of Paris. Leaving vapour trails of red, white and blue smoke to mark the 100th anniversary of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it. .
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  • Ending France's Bastille Day parade, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, streak over the pyramid peak of the Louvre art museum in the centre of Paris. Leaving vapour trails of red, white and blue smoke to mark the 100th anniversary of the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale. They were chosen by the French authorities to close the fly-pasts. British armed forces paraded in the historic parade for the first time. Under blue skies on a perfect summer day, the squadron lined up in their classic fly-past 'V-shape' called 'Big Battle', following the straight line of the Champs Elysees then eastwards over the Parisian suburbs. Personnel from four British military units were present and French Air Force jets performed their own fly-past to open the parade, while the British Hawk jets of the Red Arrows had the honour of completing it. .
    Red_Arrows462_RBA.jpg
  • Behind railings that honoured American aviator Wilbur Wright at the annual Le Mans air show, France, seven spectators gaze upwards to a clear sky where a lone but unseen aircraft performs in front of the French crowd. Wright made 110 flights at Le Mans and nearby Auvours in 1908 and his legacy for French and global aerospace lives on at events like this where a replica of his Wright Flyer was also exhibited. It is a bright summer's day and the blue sky has vapour trails left by a previous display pilot's jet engine. A prominent British Union Jack flutters on a pole and the words 'invites' (for invited guests only) are printed on to sheets of paper. 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. .
    aviation_corbis27-20-07-1998.jpg
  • Stripped of their feathers, plucked ducks await the next stage during a family Foie Gras business in French Alsace. The Kessler family live on a farm in the quiet village of Boofzheim in Alsace, France. Their business is producing Foie Gras and they raise force-fed ducks near the German border region. The youngest member is daughter Mireille wearing a blood-stained apron. She has cut the throat of a duck, draining the body and especially the liver of blood. After tapping the head with a knife to render the animal unconscious, she stands in a pool of  blood from other birds which stains the courtyard floor. On the left, her parents and grandmother are plucking the feathers from newly-killed carcasses which are strung up on a special rack for this purpose. France produces and consumes the most Foie Gras in Europe using the French Gavage method of forcing ducks or geese to consume vast quatities of corn mash down the esophagus two weeks before slaughter.
    alsace_geese1-13-10-1997.jpg
  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
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  • A portrait of both British and French customs officials during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, England. 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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  • Detail of a farmer's tough hand holding a crusty ham sandwich during a lunchbreak on the man's 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). (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A group of Gendarme officers during the annual Bastille Day celebrations though the streets of the French capital .
    gendarmes1-14-07-1992.jpg
  • Detail of a French Harley-Davidson motorbike belonging to a bike club with the words 'Pour Dieu Je Roule' (I ride for God) in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 28th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
    slovenia-553-28-06-2018.jpg
  • French Socialist party presidential candidate Benoît Hamon poster on 26th May, 2017, in Termes, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    termes_france-09-26-05-2017.jpg
  • Shadows of French lettering outside a shop offering the retouching of textiles and leather, on 23rd May, 2017, in Narbonne, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    narbonne_france-11-23-05-2017.jpg
  • An elderly French couple and visiting vintage cars in a rural village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-112-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A driver tops-up the radiator of a visiting vintage car in the centre of a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-103-26-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse (incl the Church of Saint-Michel) on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-34-23-05-2017.jpg
  • Travellers rest in sunlight on a balcony overlooking French countryside, on 21st May 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-22-21-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of red and white stripes painted on a rock showing cross-country walkers the route on French national trekking network, the GR36, on 21st May 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-18-21-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of red and white stripes and signpost showing cross-country walkers the route on French national trekking network, the GR36, on 21st May 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-19-21-05-2017.jpg
  • Three Parisians gain an advantage by climbing higher than pavement level to watch the patriotic Bastille Day Procession from a doorway on the Avenue Champs-Élysées, Paris. The young men have lodged themselves awkwardly a metre above the ground, resting their feet on various door catches and ledges, as if floating in mid-air. On a street traffic sign the French words 'Defense de Stationner' are written which in English translates as 'No Stopping', referring to vehicles not pedestrians. There is graffiti tagging sprayed on the walls and a brown stain at the bottom of a drainpipe
    paris_spectators01-14-07-1992.jpg
  • An American expatriate living in Monaco laughs at a joke from an unseen person while standing near her apartment  in front of a beach mural on the Avenue Princess Grace. The cartoon character is a puny bather in an old fashioned bathing costume and flippers, showing off a scrawny arm and non-existant bicep. Seen from a low angle, the blonde-haired widow wears sunglasses, a black coat and speckled scarf around her neck, has been living in Monaco for many years and speaks fluent French. We see a smart lady in her middle-age enjoying her retirement in the warm Mediterranean climate.
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  • A troupe of young French scouts carry their packs and food supplies on a path in Holland Park, on 17th November 2019, in London, England.
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  • Patriotic French and EU flags outside a village Mairie, on 26th May, 2017, in Villerouge-Termenes, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    villerouge_france-03-26-05-2017.jpg
  • French Socialist party presidential candidate Benoît Hamon poster on 26th May, 2017, in Termes, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    termes_france-08-26-05-2017.jpg
  • French Socialist party presidential candidate Benoît Hamon poster on 26th May, 2017, in Termes, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    termes_france-07-26-05-2017.jpg
  • French Socialist party presidential candidate Benoît Hamon poster on 26th May, 2017, in Termes, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    termes_france-06-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A visiting vintage car leaves a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-119-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A 1908 Renault Type AX vintage car visits a rural French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-115-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A visiting vintage car leaves a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-116-26-05-2017.jpg
  • Locals wave goodbye as a visiting vintage car leaves a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-118-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A local frenchman and his pet dog admires a visiting 1912 Delauney Belleville vintage car in a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-114-26-05-2017.jpg
  • An elderly French lady and visiting vintage cars in a rural village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-113-26-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a badge and lamp from a visiting vintage car in the centre of a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-110-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A visiting 1912 Delauney Belleville vintage car visits a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-109-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A visiting vintage car in a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-108-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A visiting vintage car in the centre of a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-107-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A visiting 1912 Delauney Belleville vintage car visits a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-105-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A 1908 Renault Type AX vintage car visits a rural French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-104-26-05-2017.jpg
  • Detail of a rear wheel from a visiting vintage car in the centre of a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-102-26-05-2017.jpg
  • An optimistic Syrian migrant couple seeking a new life in France, on 25th May, 2017, in a southwestern French town.
    lagrasse_france-98-25-05-2017.jpg
  • A child admired a visiting vintage car in the centre of a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-101-26-05-2017.jpg
  • An optimistic Syrian migrant couple seeking a new life in France, on 25th May, 2017, in a southwestern French town.
    lagrasse_france-97-25-05-2017.jpg
  • The early school bus crosses one of the bridges at the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-51-24-05-2017.jpg
  • The early school bus crosses one of the bridges at the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-49-24-05-2017.jpg
  • The early school bus crosses one of the bridges at the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-50-24-05-2017.jpg
  • Travellers rest in sunlight on a balcony overlooking French countryside, on 21st May 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-23-21-05-2017.jpg
  • Fading garage lettering including French car manufacturer Renault, on 21st May 2017, in Fabrezan, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    lagrasse_france-07-21-05-2017.jpg
  • French spectators enjoy the spirit of the Olympics and international competition in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The sports fans support the weight of their friend and pass him overhead. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
    olympic_park76-02-08-2012.jpg
  • Foire Gras and dairy farming family's women experience hardships together during breakfast at their home in Alsace. ..The Kesslers live on the farm in the quiet village of Boofzheim in Alsace, France. Their business is producing Foie Gras and they raise force-fed ducks near the German border region. The youngest member is daughter Mireille wearing a blood-stained apron. She is about to cut the throat of a duck, draining the body and especially the liver of blood. After tapping the head with a knife to render the animal unconscious, she stands in a pool of  blood from other birds which stains the courtyard floor. On the left, her parents and grandmother are plucking the feathers from newly-killed carcasses which are strung up on a special rack for this purpose. France produces and consumes the most Foie Gras in Europe using the French Gavage method of forcing ducks or geese to consume vast quatities of corn mash down the esophagus two weeks before slaughter.
    alsace_family01-13-10-1997.jpg
  • Three Parisians gain an advantage by climbing higher than pavement level to watch the patriotic Bastille Day Procession from a doorway on the Avenue Champs-Élysées, Paris. The young men have lodged themselves awkwardly a metre above the ground, resting their feet on various door catches and ledges, as if floating in mid-air. On a street traffic sign the French words 'Defense de Stationner' are written which in English translates as 'No Stopping', referring to vehicles not pedestrians. There is graffiti tagging sprayed on the walls and a brown stain at the bottom of a drainpipe
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  • A lone bather wallows lazily in the calm pool waters at the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat (formerly the Bel Air Hotel), Alpes Maritimes, France. Basking on his back, the man lies with arms outstretched, the warm buoyant water making him weightless. he has found inner-peace and there is restful tranquility here, where surface-tension allows the bather to unwind completely in this idyllic place on the French Cote d'Azur riviera. Behind his head unoccupied sun loungers are facing the Mediterranean Sea, its clear horizon empty except for a lone yacht that sails along the ocean coast. The colour of both sea and pool are the same on this overcast day that allows us to experience a more muted tone to the scene, also allowing us to see the contiunation of natural waters, as if they run from one to the other.
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  • French and British front-row audience fans of rock band Status Quo listen during European tour gig at L'Aeronef in Lille, France
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  • Delegates at the French government-owned weapons manufacturer Nexter near nose-mounted helicopter cannon.
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  • Parked on the apron at Paris Orly Airport, a lone pilot of the French national airline Air France, leans out of his right-hand seat's cockpit window of his Boeing 777-328/ER aircraft (F-GSQT). It is a bright morning at this international hub for Air France and without help from ground staff, the silver-haired gentleman who may be the captain and commander of the aircraft (because of age and seat position) has decided to get on with the job of cleaning his window himself much like a driver wiping away flies from his car windscreen. Here however, this chore being performed approximately six meters off the ground so safety is vital - just as a clear front view for the flight-deck crew before their flight. Attached to the plane is the mobile walkway, the air bridge, that awaits boarding passengers but no 'ramp agent' is below.  .
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  • Patriotic French and EU flags outside a village Mairie, on 26th May, 2017, in Villerouge-Termenes, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France
    villerouge_france-02-26-05-2017.jpg
  • A visiting vintage car leaves a French village, during a three-day rally journey through the Corbieres wine region, on 26th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-117-26-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse (incl the Church of Saint-Michel) on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-35-23-05-2017.jpg
  • French farmers work the land with a combine harvester on a gloomy autumn day in the fields of Alsace, near the German border.
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  • The pretty coastal town of Menton on the French Cote d'Azur is seen beneath a cloudless blue sky in later afternoon spring sunshine. Looking across the water, in the foreground is the marina populated with assorted yachts, launches and other boats safely moored to jetties and pontoons. The bell-tower of baroque basilica Saint-Michel-Archange, houses and buildings of Menton rise up along hillsides and the mountains of the Ligurian Alps rise up in the distance, all bathed in orange light. Mediterranean Menton - near the Italian border - is known as Le perle de la France ("The Pearl of France") for its famous beauty. It is also known for La Musée Jean Cocteau which is located in the town.
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  • Viewed from the top of the Arc de triumph in the centre of Paris, the French capital, we see tiny human figures going about their daily business, a hurried frenzy of activity at street level far below. This street is the Avenue des Champs Elysees, one of the most famous of European boulevards and the multi-lane road that stretches away into the distance - from l'Etoile to Place de la Concorde - is dissected with zebra crossings over which more pedestrians negotiate the Parisian traffic that has stopped on a red light. Otherwise small figures walk along the pavement (sidewalk) and some disappear into an underground Metro entrance.
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  • A passenger looks bored awaiting the departure of his flight from the old French capital's Orly International Airport at Orly.
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  • Sightseers use periscopes to watch the parade during the annual Bastille Day celebrations though the streets of the French capital .
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  • Bright lights illuminate a French ADA car rental kiosk in an empty car park alongside the N186 motorway in southern Paris.
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  • An urban cityscape an night, near the French capital's Orly airport, the N186 motorway in southern Paris.
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  • An French elderly lady bends down to find the right shoes for herself among dozens of other pairs in all styles and sizes strewn on the ground in the weekly market, on 11th May 1990, in Calais, France.
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  • Detail of a bouquet of dying flowers, gathered for a local memorial to a killed French Resistance fighter during German-occupied WW2, on 26th April 2008, in Paris France. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Three days after the terrorist attack in which 7 people died and many others suffered life-changing injuries on London Bridge and Borough Market, the face on a still-missing French citizen Sebastien Belanger appears on a poster at the bus stop near a flower shrine, on 6th June 2017, on London Bridge, in the south London borough of Southwark, England. City commuters now back at work walk respectfully and quietly past the floral memorial at the plinth marking the southern boundary of the City of London, the capital's financial district.
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  • The Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu in the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 24th May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse (incl the Church of Saint-Michel) on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse and the tower of the Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse and the tower of the Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-54-24-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse and the tower of the Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-55-24-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse and the tower of the Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Closed wooden shutters in the late sunshine in pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse and the tower of the Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse and the tower of the Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-45-23-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-44-23-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse and the tower of the Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-42-23-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse and the tower of the Abbey of Sante-Marie D'Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-41-23-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse (incl the Church of Saint-Michel) on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
    lagrasse_france-37-23-05-2017.jpg
  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Aerial landscape overlooking the pretty French medieval walled village of Lagrasse on the River Orbieu, on 23rd May, 2017, in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Rousillon, south of France. Lagrasse is listed as one of France's most beautiful villages and lies on the famous Route 20 wine route in the Basses-Corbieres region dating to the 13th century.
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  • Detail of wreaths to a mother and grandmother on a recent grave in a rural french hamlet in Indre-et-Loir.
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  • Old gates and walls of land in Montresor in the French Indre-et-Loire region.
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  • Medieval streets of Montresor in the French Indre-et-Loire region.
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  • Medieval streets of Montresor in the French Indre-et-Loire region.
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  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
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  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
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  • Abandoned farmhouse property in French Indre-et-Loire region, France.
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  • Tomb of Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon (1747-1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist. Dominique was appointed first director of the Louvre Museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798-1801.
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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.
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  • Tombstone to the French comic Leon Noel (1844-1913) in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
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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.
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