11.   The great French consul admired jewellery and used them to surround himself with an aura of grandeur.

12.   They celebrated Christmas in the company of the French consul in southern India and welcomed the new year at a carnival and a boat race.

13.   Honorary French consul, Australian plastic surgeon Robert Pearce, told reporters he believed the attack was a protest against the decision announced by President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday.

14.   Honorary French consul, Robert Pearce, a plastic surgeon, lost records of years of research as well as his medical library and unique works of art.

15.   A meeting was to be held later Wednesday in Kabul between non-governmental organisations and the French consul on a plan to evacuate diplomats and humanitarian workers, he said.

16.   The spokesman recalled that the French consul in Shanghai had been allowed to visit the orphanage where Zhang worked at his request.

17.   The statement also apologised to Robert Pearce, the honorary French consul in Western Australia.

18.   Simon, a career diplomat, was previously French general consul in Beirut and at the French embassy in Tehran.

19.   The man falls to his knees and with hands folded demands forgiveness in the office of the French consul before being led out in handcuffs.

20.   The offices of the French honorary consul in Perth, an Australia doctor, were destroyed by a firebomb.