1.   Dom Perignon, the French monk who discovered champagne, tested stoppers and cork closures.

2.   Father Rene Laurentin, a French monk and the leading Mary scholar in the world, agrees.

3.   Griffin had harbored a continuing fascination with monasticism ever since his stay with the French monks at Solesmes.

4.   The Armed Islamic Group in Algeria said on Thursday that it had killed seven French monks who were kidnapped two months ago from a monastery south of Algiers.

5.   The most notable of these was a radical French monk.

6.   A militant armed Islamic group in Algeria said it killed seven French monks it had been holding since kidnapping them in March, French radio reported Thursday.

7.   A Muslim militant group in Algeria said it killed seven French monks it had been holding since kidnapping them in March, French radio reported Thursday.

8.   A Muslim militant group said Thursday it had beheaded seven French monks kidnapped two months earlier because France refused to free jailed comrades.

9.   A vast dragnet by troops Thursday failed to locate seven French monks kidnapped by armed gunmen, and Paris turned up the heat on Algeria by summoning its ambassador.

10.   An Algerian Muslim militant group said Thursday it had beheaded seven French monks kidnapped two months earlier because France refused to free jailed comrades.