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Business researchers will be very happy to add the address of this agency www.tracfin.minefi.gouv.fr  to their directory.

As tracfin is the government organ that monitors and recommends prosecution relevant to illegal transfer of funds, money laundering and embezzlements to the director of public prosecutions. Tracfin was created in 1990 and it has not been able to acquire the status of the stock market regulator and came to serious public attention in the form of an editorial that appeared in the La Vie Financière last month. 

Business researchers will relish at the amount of information online. Most of these information will be expensive from any of the database providers and www.francereginfo.com is another example of quality data available on the web.

Claude Kémoularia, the former, French ambassador to the United Nations, under the mandate of President Mitterrand is to publish an account of his diplomatic career with Fayard.His work will be another contribution to the internnational affairs legacy of the socialist government between 1981-1995.

This is a web portal created according to a directive of the EU. In every sense of the word, it can be described as the French version of Google. Earth

This full page ad, is bound to attract the attention of many readers because it has a Berlin wall background. The main photo shows a model with the advertised product, a Louis Vuitton bag, with the copy below, "Berlin wall, returning from a conference." Then there is this name"Mikhail Gorbachev" that closes the ad, directed exclusively to the audience of  statesmen and senior policy makers.