Word: partements
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...FRANCE Flash Floods At least 21 people died and eight people were missing after floods raged through villages and towns in the south of France. Five of the dead were from the village of Aramon, which was inundated when a dam gave way following torrential rain. The d é partement of the Gard, between the Mediterranean and the hills of the Massif Central, got the worst of the floods, with 19 dead and 3,000 people forced from their homes. Provence has suffered five such disasters since 1988. Jacques Thorette, a drainage expert, said: "Everywhere in France, we have paved...
...Indian Ocean some 750 km east of Madagascar, is over 9,500 km away from Paris but - in theory, at least - is just as French as the Champs Elysées or the Côte d'Azur. Since 1946 the island has been a French département, like the country's 99 other local administrative units. Yet you don't have to spend long in the shadow of Réunion's active volcano to realize that the island is a long way from Lyons. Despite the French Republic's much-vaunted ideals of liberté, egalit...