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Thus, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg use franc ; Canada and The Bahamas choose dollar .
The franc appears in Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, French Guiana, Guinea, Malagasy, Rwanda, and as a common currency of the CFA (Communauté Francaise Africaine), comprising Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mali, Niger, People's Republic of the Congo, Senegal, and Togo.
Some of them felt strongly enough about their situation to form a pressure group and now, after a long struggle, the government has caved in: a recent Journal officiel lists four pages of people who are to be allowed to change their names--when they can come up with the 2000 franc (±$325) fee.
The names franc and guilder spread only to their former colonial areas.
The travails of the French franc in the '20s were thoroughly modern, and the speculative attacks that brought down the Bretton Woods system of exchange rates in the early '70s were almost as big, compared with the size of the economies involved, as the biggest recent blowouts.