1.   An award to the latter would certainly reprove the French bureaucrats who relieved him of his post last year.

2.   But the Union has been shaped by bureaucrats, particularly French bureaucrats, and they are not known for their humility.

3.   By winking at or, worse, allowing overproduction, French bureaucrats, in effect, condone the production of inferior wine.

4.   It is not a task that comes easily to French bureaucrats, but Juppe will make a start in a meeting with union leaders at his office Thursday.

5.   Starr methodically takes apart the French bureaucrats who found the deaths of others so acceptable an answer.

6.   A trial, Papon biographer Gerard Boulanger contends, would delve into the mind-set of the many French bureaucrats who kept the administrative wheels turning against the Jews.

7.   It is also a chilling account of how French bureaucrats tightened the noose around foreign Jews living in the Vaucluse region during World War II.

8.   The comment caused indignation in Algeria and French bureaucrats to distance themselves from Mitterrand, who was asked about Algeria at a news conference on the European Union.

9.   Very few French bureaucrats refused to serve Vichy.