Next year parliament and government will move east from Bonn, where the Francophile Adenauer insisted they must be, to Berlin more or less at the geographical heart of a widened European Union.

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The Channel tunnel has raised hopes of closer Anglo-French relations in the most Francophile of English novelists, Julian Barnes.

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The restaurant's Francophile ambitions exceed its execution, though the staff is sweet and the starlit ambience sublime.

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But he is little known in France and what is known about him, as a Protestant from Hanover, in Germany's north, and as a reputed Anglophile, makes him seem worryingly different from Mr Kohl, a Catholic Francophile from the nearby Rhineland.

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Living and working 'over here' has been wonderful for me - a Francophile - and for the family.

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Livigni, a self-professed Francophile, helped conceive the bar, and along with co-owner Jonnie Houston, travelled to France to research the aesthetic they wanted to emulate, right down to the damask wallpaper.

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Even Cu Huy Can, a francophile poet and cultural commissar, argues that the big external influences on Vietnam have been India, through Buddhism, and China, through invasion and tributary subjugation.

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