31.   French national champion Laurent Jalabert, of ONCE, finished with the time as the leaders and retained the pink jersey of overall leader for the third straight day.

32.   French Premier Edouard Balladur scheduled a meeting Tuesday with senior government officials to discuss how to step up protection for French nationals.

33.   French nationals fleeing unrest in the Central African Republic returned home Thursday aboard an army plane that whisked them out of the troubled nation.

34.   French nationals living in Australia say they are being harassed and regularly insulted.

35.   GIA has taken responsibility for several attacks against French nationals and other foreigners in Algeria.

36.   Hassan said the four French nationals were from Singapore and they had gone to the resort island of Tioman near Johor to spend their Easter holiday.

37.   He also said he wanted to revive the debate on his long-standing proposal to give French nationals preference over immigrants in jobs, housing and welfare benefits.

38.   He said he carried out two dead French nationals from the collapsed hotel wing.

39.   He says he is a French national, a claim French authorities are still investigating.

40.   He says he is a French national.