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French rivals hold duelling Paris rallies one week from vote

AFP

France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande staged rival street rallies for tens of thousands of supporters Sunday, one week from their presidential election. In a forceful display in the Place de la Concorde before a sea of tricolour banners, Sarkozy rallied.