Loire Valley At over 1,000 km in length, the Loire is the longest purely French river. It is also considered to be the “most French” of all rivers: nowhere is France so much France as along the Loire and in the Loire Valley. From the Massif Central to the Atlantic: The Loire rises in the…
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France 2008
Yearbook 2008 France. The biggest bank fraud in history was revealed in January when a stock trader at France’s second largest bank, Société Générale, was found to have caused losses of € 4.9 billion through volatile securities transactions. A criminal investigation was launched against 31-year-old broker Jérôme Kerviel, who was suspected of being unfaithful to…
Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Lille, France
Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France Nord-Pas-de-Calais is a French regionin the north of the country. The direct neighbor is Belgium. There are 4 million people in Nord-Pas-de-Calais that belongs to the region today of FrenchFlanders and Hainaut and Artois. Until 1678 these areas belonged to the Burgundian and Spanish Netherlands. The port areas of Boulogne and Calais…