41.  But half the flights to Reunion, Montpellier and Toulouse had to be canceled, as were some flights between the French capital and Nice.

42.  But service between the French capital and Brussels was disrupted because of a strike by Belgian rail workers, according to the National French Railroad Company.

43.  Carefully shielded from the uproar raging around the French capital, Li spent the day in the lavishly decorated Foreign Ministry building on the Seine.

44.  Chaumet, a jeweler-watchmaker based in Paris, has its own shops in London and Monte Carlo as well as in the French capital.

45.  Chirac received the players at the presidential Elysee Palace, though Noah was a bit late arriving to the French capital.

46.  Chirac rushed back to the French capital, where he visited some of the injured at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital.

47.  Christmas trees sprayed with fake snow give the French capital a festive veneer.

48.  Demonstrators planned two big rallies in the French capital later Thursday.

49.  Despite regular protests by unions impeding distribution of the first free daily newspaper in the French capital, a second free paper was launched in Paris on Friday.

50.  Dilapidated hotels have increasingly been used to house those without a roof in the French capital.