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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) chats with the Pope Benedict XVI, followed by his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (3dR) upon the arrival of the German Pope at Orly airport, south of Paris, on September 12, 2008 for his first visit to France to bond with the Catholic church's "eldest daughter." The German pope arrives in Paris for talks with Sarkozy and to deliver a keynote address before flying to the southwest town of Lourdes to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Vatican-recognized apparitions of the Virgin Mary to peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous. AFP PHOTO PATRICK KOVARIK (Photo by PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP via Getty Images)