1.   Still, few expect the franc to come under the sort of severe speculative attack it has endured in the past.

2.   With no resolution in sight to the standoff between the government and striking workers, the franc could come under renewed pressure, traders said.

3.   With no resolution in sight to the standoff between the government and striking workers, traders said, the franc could come under renewed pressure.

4.   The franc has come under pressure with mounting uncertainty of the future of Prime Minister Alain Juppe, whose popularity has plunged in opinion polls.

5.   In Paris dealers said that the franc was coming under renewed attack and was near supposed intervention levels before a governnmental statement on tax cuts later in the day.

6.   But the franc has come under pressure from the mark which has risen in response to the fall of the dollar.

7.   The franc came under attack at the end of last week and early this week because foreign investors suspect that the deficits cannot be reduced in time.

8.   The franc has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks because of alarm about the size of French public deficits.

9.   The franc had come under some pressure but had not fallen dramatically, said an expert at MPE tresorerie, Philippe Peretmere.