France

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during arrivals for the G-20 economic summit in Cannes, France, on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy give a joint media conference at the European Union summit in Brussels on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Thursday after a meeting on the financial crisis. Europe's efforts to solve its debt crisis plunged into disarray after Germany and France could not bridge their differences in time for a summit Sunday. (Associated Press)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (center) leaves a clinic on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, in Paris, where French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's due date is Oct. 3. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy discuss the European financial crisis on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011, in Berlin. (Associated Press)

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Clockwise from top left: butter from Parma, Italy; Vermont cultured butter; Beurre d'Isigny, France; black truffle butter; sea-salted butter from France; and Brookford Farm uncultured butter from Rollinsford, N.H. (Associated Press)

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Jose Manuel Barroso (foreground), president of the executive European Commission, speaks to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. (AP Photo)

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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, seen earlier this month with President Nicolas Sarkozy, says her pregnancy is a nonstory to the people of France. "There isn't much to say," Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy said. "So many women are expecting children and giving birth, and it's so uninteresting for French people." (Associated Press)

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Nick Calathes of Greece (right) releases a shot over France's Nicolas Batum at the EuroBasket tournament in Kaunas, Lithuania. (Associated Press)

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British Prime Minister David Cameron (center) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy (right) meet patients at the Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya, on Sept. 15, 2011. (Associated Press)

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French Environment Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet speaks Monday at a press conference at the nuclear site of Marcoule in southern France, where one person died in an explosion. The site treats nuclear waste. (Associated Press)

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Rescuers and medics land by helicopter at a nuclear site in Marcoule, France, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, after an explosion at a plant that treats nuclear waste. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) ** FILE **

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde, left, talks with Tunisian Finance Minister Jelloul Ayed during the group photo at the Deauville partnership meeting in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Sept.10, 2011. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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Marco and Marta Bonifazi of Geneva return to the bus that will take them back home to Geneva after their first shopping trip at the Carrefour supermarket across the border in Ferney-Voltaire, France. "It's just great to save money," Mr. Bonifazi, showing off his receipt, said of the Swiss franc that buys a lot more in countries that use the euro. (Associated Press)

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Federal Reserve chairman Paul Bernanke (right) and Jean-Claude Trichet, of France, president of the European Central Bank, take a stroll Aug. 26, 2011, on the veranda of the Jackson Lake Lodge before the morning session of the Economic Policy Symposium at Jackson Hole in Moran, Wyo. (Associated Press)