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...tortured her during trysts arranged by Alègre. But Baudis has produced old agendas and travel documents indicating he could not have attended orgies on the alleged dates. "The next step is to find out why these people lied, and who inspired and orchestrated them," says deputy mayor Jean Diebold, who worked under Baudis. "Because this is a coordinated frame...
...Tour the last four years, he has changed its character by introducing private jets, bodyguards and retractable barriers to a sport whose charm was once rooted in the accessibility of its champions. Armstrong's remoteness and use of personal security runs counter to the traditions of the Tour, says Jean-Pierre Bidet, cycling correspondent of L'Equipe, France's largest sports daily. "It's an event where people line the side of the road. You can reach out and touch the star riders," he says. "But Armstrong is like Michael Schumacher. You don't just walk up and touch...
...Tour manager Jean-Marie Leblanc doesn't believe that Armstrong or other U.S. cyclists will encounter any hostility, but he did raise the issue of security during a May meeting with France's Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who ordered his staff to determine whether additional measures should be taken to reassure the American riders. "I am convinced that it will be the same as last year," Leblanc predicted. "There'll be no particular reason to smother Mr. Armstrong with protection." During last year's Tour, observers detected a warming trend in Franco-Lancian relations. Armstrong conducted more interviews in French...
...Norway's fertile jazz scene will descend on the small town on the North Atlantic, one of Europe's most serene spots for jazz. Special character? The tiny French village of Marciac, just north of the Spanish border, has it in spades. And the Marciac Jazz Festival's director, Jean-Louis Guilhaumon, has made jazz into a true local industry in a region that's been losing jobs and population for decades. When the French Ministry of Education threatened last month to move Guilhaumon, a school principal who has fostered an ambitious jazz-education program in the village for decades...
...ACQUITTED. JEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET, 60, governor of the Bank of France; in Paris. Trichet had been charged with complicity in falsifying accounts to hide losses of then state-owned bank Cr?dit Lyonnais in the early 1990s when he headed the French Treasury. The verdict clears the way for Trichet to become the next president of the European Central Bank after current head Wim Duisenberg steps down in October...