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Parliamentary elections: what do the first round results mean for French politics?

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President Hollande's Socialists look set to obtain a majority ahead of the second rond of the parliamentary elections. Next, prostitutes in Paris' Bois de Boulogne fight for the right to stay off the street and in their vans. Finally, after fifty years of photographing celebrities, an exhibition of Daniel Angelis' work opens in Paris.

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