Ms Lagarde replaced its disgraced former chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn less than two years ago.
Ms Royal has her eye on the presidency, as does Dominique Strauss-Kahn, boss of the IMF.
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Mr Jospin has already lost a clever finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, to allegations of corruption.
The IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has suggested the crisis is not over until job growth returns.
"L'Affaire Cahuzac" has struck French consciences as deeply as Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex scandal in 2011.
Yet IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is no fan of introducing a so-called "Tobin Tax" on financial transactions.
We do know that Depardieu has agreed to play the leading role in a film about Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
That distinction belonged to then-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who polls suggested could challenge and possibly beat Sarkozy.
In fact Courtin-Clarins has crossed paths with many interesting people in his life, including a now-notorious former professor: Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
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The former head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has asked a French court to lift a "gagging order" on him.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the front-runner to be the next French president, although he had not yet declared himself a candidate.
His new finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, formerly close to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the ex-IMF boss, has begun to prepare the ground.
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Meanwhile, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the present government's highly-regarded finance minister until he fell foul of corruption allegations, was back in the news.
French writer Tristane Banon has filed a complaint for attempted rape against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her lawyer has said.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the minister of finance, has growled that any foreign banks tempted to join the fray would not be welcome.
Before the events of May 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the leading contender to be the Socialist party's candidate in the presidential election.
For example, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a pro-European rival to Mr Hollande, who was marginalised by the Hollande-Fabius duel, is now back in play.
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Ms Lagarde replaced the disgraced IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was arrested in New York in 2011 on allegations of attempted rape.
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In 2011, he got sexual-assault charges dropped against IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, seems to agree.
Sombre and pensive, Dominique Strauss-Kahn sat on the bench of room 130 in the Manhattan Criminal Court along with the other defendants.
He has plenty of support, notably from his French counterpart, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and from the new Italian government led by Massimo D'Alema.
More than that, the two men with their hands on the economy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France's finance minister, and Mr Lafontaine, think alike.
The New York Times has posted a video of the quake interrupting a press conference about rape charges being dismissed against Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
And when the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal involving an African hotel housekeeper broke, ASC was once again asked to find someone to weigh in.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, disgraced former IMF boss, is married to Anne Sinclair, a former TV presenter who is editor of the French Huffington Post.
Keep in mind this story is playing out at the same time as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF, is indicted for rape.
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As Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the fund's boss, puts it: if countries start cutting budgets a year late, they will have an unnecessarily large debt burden.
Hollande emerged as his party's candidate for president after the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was once considered the Socialist favorite to defeat Sarkozy.
Maybe he can buddy-up with Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a Federal penitentiary.
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