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The French press was dominated by the political pact between part of the country's respectable political right and the racist National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, which could make Le Pen president of Southern France's largest region, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
France is blessed with an astonishing variety of landscapes: long, high dunes on the Atlantic Coast; craggy coves in Brittany; vineyards in Burgundy; steep gorges in the Tarn; olive trees and vineyards, umbrella pines and cypresses in Provence; and lazy beaches in the Côte d’Azur.
The country offers plenty of outdoor enjoyment, too: swimming and other water sports, or just sunbathing, on Alpine lakes, on the beaches of Normandy and Brittany, or at the famous resorts of the Côte d’Azur; first-class skiing in the Alps and Pyrénées; canoeing down spectacular gorges; and marvelous hiking around the country’s national parks and nature reserves.
The Côte d’Azur and Corsica both have a distinctly Italian flavor, and the people on the northern slopes of the Pyrénées are not so very different from their Spanish cousins to the south.