101.  French forces needed a one month fuel stock as a buffer because the bitter Bosnian winters made transporting fuel extremely difficult.

102.  French forces stormed ashore on Wednesday and snuffed out the coup.

103.  French forces stormed the island at dawn to snuff out an uprising by rebel soldiers under the veteran French mercenary Bob Denard.

104.  French forces waited for the divers to surface before grabbing them.

105.  French forces, who are to leave Rwanda by Monday, Wednesday handed over command of this region to Ghanaian troops from the UN peace-keeping force.

106.  French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe had earlier this month evoked the possibility of withdrawing all French forces if a concrete peace plan for Bosnia failed to materialise.

107.  French General Didier Thibaut said RPF guerrillas fired on French forces evacuating civilians and orphans from Butare just after they had passed through an RPF roadblock.

108.  French military forces landed on the islands overnight and were battling with rebel forces for control of the capital.

109.  French forces constitute the largest single grouping of the UN Protection Force deployed in Bosnia.

110.  French forces Monday stormed the hijacked Air France plane held by Algerian fundamentalists at Marseille airport.