1.   French business leaders expect a recovery in industry to strengthen quickly, an industrial survey by the official INSEE statistical institute found on Wednesday.

2.   French consumers are deeply worried and want to save for a rainy day, a monthly assessment of household confidence by the official INSEE statistical institute showed on Tuesday.

3.   French industrial prices fell in May from the figure for April, the official INSEE statistical institute reported on Monday.

4.   French industrialists see little to celebrate with the arrival of the New Year, a monthly report by the official INSEE statistics institute here found on Thursday.

5.   A bomb blast shook offices of the French official statistical institute INSEE early Monday in a southern suburb of Paris, causing damage but no casualties, police said.

6.   The official INSEE statistical institute said that this increase reflected in part expenditure which households had withheld during transport strikes in December.

7.   Only eight percent associated the camp with the Jewish people, according to the poll conducted by the official CBOS institute.

8.   The French economy is heading for unexpectedly strong recovery during the first half of the year, the official INSEE statistical institute reported Friday.

9.   The official INSEE statistical institute reported that wholesalers in most sectors believed that their sales performance in November and December had worsened.

10.   The official statistical institute, INSEE, in publishing final figures confirmed initial estimates.