1.   The main investor in the project is the French bank Credit National.

2.   Two people died during attacks on a French bank in Baalbeck, Lebanon and a US government library in Manila.

3.   Analysts said they expected ING to pursue its courtship of Credit Commercial, the sixth-largest French bank by assets and one of the most profitable.

4.   And French mutual banks could eventually convert to joint stock companies as their U.K. and Italian counterparts have done.

5.   And French mutual banks could eventually convert to joint stock companies as U.K. and Italian mutuals have done.

6.   An investigating magistrate, Isabelle Prevost-Desprez, has so far placed top executives from eight French banks under investigation for blanchiment aggrave, serious money-laundering.

7.   Analysts said other French banks were in similar condition and could also take charges for Asian loans.

8.   And Credit Lyonnais, the troubled French bank, was reported to be considering a multibillion-dollar charge against earnings.

9.   As in Germany, Societe Generale SA, Paribas SA and other French banks are carrying loans to Asia that could end up being written off.

10.   At one point, armed with a revolver, he personally oversaw the transport from a French bank of millions of francs in securities owned by the estate.