"shipments exceeding 250,000 copies. ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" described the song as the ""stand-out track"" from ""The World Starts Tonight"", naming it the ""most commercial."" ""Record Mirror"" favoured the follow-up single ""More Than a Lover"", though agreed ""Lost in France"" was the more commercial of the two. Tyler's first television promotion for ""Lost in France"" took place on ""Top of the Pops"" on 4 November 1976. Tyler performed ""Lost in France"" live in Zaragosa, Spain, in 2005. The performance was recorded and released on Tyler's album ""Bonnie Tyler Live"" (2007) and the accompanying DVD ""Bonnie on Tour"" (2007). Credits are"
"Alice Domon Alicia Domon, Caty, (born September 23, 1937, Charquemont, Doubs, France; disappeared on December 17 or 18, 1977 near Santa Teresita by the Argentine Sea) was a Roman Catholic nun from France who was one of two French nationals to be ""disappeared"" in December 1977 in Argentina during the military dictatorship of the ""National Reorganization Process"" (1976–1983). She was among a dozen people associated with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group, who were kidnapped and taken to the secret detention center at ESMA. According to witnesses who saw her there, over a period of"
"Alice Domon Alicia Domon, Caty, (born September 23, 1937, Charquemont, Doubs, France; disappeared on December 17 or 18, 1977 near Santa Teresita by the Argentine Sea) was a Roman Catholic nun from France who was one of two French nationals to be ""disappeared"" in December 1977 in Argentina during the military dictatorship of the ""National Reorganization Process"" (1976–1983). She was among a dozen people associated with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group, who were kidnapped and taken to the secret detention center at ESMA. According to witnesses who saw her there, over a period of"
"and two French nationals, Léonie Duquet and Alice Domon, who were Catholic nuns. None of the twelve was seen alive again outside detention and all were believed killed, rumored to be among the bodies washed up on beaches south of Buenos Aires in late 1977. At the beginning of the 1982 Falklands War, Astiz surrendered with his team to British forces. Sweden and France wanted to question him about ""disappearances"" of their nationals at his hands but, considering issues of the Geneva Conventions, the United Kingdom had him questioned by a British policeman. Astiz refused to answer any questions. The"
"Disappearance of Ludovic Janvier Ludovic Janvier is a six-year-old French boy who went missing on <time>17 March 1983 from</time> Saint-Martin-d'Hères, a suburb of Grenoble, in the Isère département of south-eastern France. His disappearance has been linked to that of several other children in the area, collectively known as the Disparus de l'Isère (literally, the ""Disappeared of the Isère""). Ludovic's whereabouts remain unknown to this day. Six-year-old Ludovic Janvier disappeared from Saint-Martin-d'Hères on Thursday 17 March 1983. He was last seen in Place de la République, on the way home with his two brothers, Jérôme (8) and Nicolas (2½). They had"
"Léonie Duquet Léonie Duquet (April 9, 1916, Longemaison, Doubs, France – 1977, Argentina) was a French nun who was arrested in December 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and ""disappeared."" She was believed killed by the military regime of Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla during the Dirty War. Alice Domon, a French nun working with Duquet, disappeared a few days later. They had been working in poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the 1970s and supported the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, founded in 1977. Despite repeated efforts by France to trace the sisters, the Argentine military dictatorship was unresponsive."
"by the government. Esther Careaga and María Eugenia Bianco, two other founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, were also ""disappeared"". In early 1978, unidentified bodies began to wash up from the Atlantic on the beaches south of Buenos Aires. Some of the movement's most prominent supporters have been disappeared and their bodies never found, such as French national Léonie Duquet. Duquet and her sister, both French nuns, were taken during the Dirty War. Their disappearance attracted international attention and outrage, with demands for a United Nations investigation of human rights abuses in the country. France demanded information"
"Lyette Gibb, Sophie Landry, Chantal Rochon, Valerie Dalpe, Marie Eve Lariviere, Melanie Cabay, Marie Chantale Desjardins, Joleil Campeau, Debbie Buck, Johanne Beardoin, Danielle Laplante, Jolène Riendeau, Carole Dupont, Diane Thibeault, , Nathalie Boucher, Brigitte Roberge, Guylaine Potvin, Ursula Schulze, Melanie Descamps, Claudette Poirier, Julie Surprenant and Cedrika Provencher. Death of Theresa Allore Theresa Allore was a 19-year-old Canadian college student who disappeared on Friday, November 3, 1978 from Champlain College Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Theresa Allore was a 19-year-old Canadian when she disappeared in 1978. Five months later, on April 13, 1979, her body was discovered in"
"broadcast had generated considerable public interest, encouraging the subsequent action by the French government. Françoise Claustre, who was born in Paris, died at her home in Montauriol, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, in September 2006, at the age of 69. Françoise Claustre Françoise Claustre (8 February 1937 – 3 September 2006), was a French archeologist who was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an assistant of"
"and that Amin continually denied knowledge of her fate. Murder of Dora Bloch In June 1976, Dora Bloch (), a dual Israeli-British citizen, was a hostage on Air France Flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Paris, which was hijacked after a stopover in Athens and rerouted to Entebbe, Uganda. Bloch was taken ill on the plane and was taken to a hospital in Kampala; she was not rescued with the other hostages during Operation Entebbe, but went missing from the hospital. Her disappearance led to Britain cutting diplomatic ties with Uganda. Her body was discovered in 1979 in a sugar"
"Françoise Claustre Françoise Claustre (8 February 1937 – 3 September 2006), was a French archeologist who was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an assistant of Mrs. Claustre's husband, Pierre. Marc Combe managed to escape and Dr. Staewan was released on 11 June 1974, after a ransom had been paid by the German government. An emissary, Captain Pierre Galopin was sent to negotiate"
"Toulon in June 1964, exhausted; he died ten years later. His wife slowly lost her mind and died in an asylum in Toulon in 1984. Dozens of books have been written on Maufrais, and he was the subject of four French films, most recently a 2015 production by Jérémy Banster starring Stany Coppet, who also co-wrote the film. His ""Aventures en Guyane"" is still in print. Raymond Maufrais Raymond Maufrais (1 October 1926, Toulon - 1950) was a French journalist and explorer. He disappeared in the jungle of Guyana; his body was never found. Raymond Maufrais was born in Toulon,"
"Jean-Denis Lejeune Jean-Denis Lejeune (born 1959) is the father of Julie Lejeune, who was abducted along with Mélissa Russo in Belgium on 24 June 1995, and imprisoned in Marc Dutroux's cellar. She was eight years old at the time. She died, probably of starvation, sometime between 6 December 1995 and 20 March 1996. The bodies were found on 17 August 1996. In June 1996 Lejeune began work on the creation of a missing children helpline, which by 1998 was operational as Child Focus, the European Centre for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children. Lejeune was one of the leaders of a"
"and a national martyr for the Liberty. Muhammad Bassiri Muhammad Sidi Brahim Sidi Embarek Basir (; b. 1942 or October 1944 - disappeared on June 18, 1970) was a Sahrawi nationalist leader, disappeared and presumedly executed by the Spanish Legion in June 1970. Muhammad Bassiri was born in a Sahrawi family in Tan-Tan (nowadays Southern Morocco, then part of the Cap Juby Spanish protectorate). In 1957 he left Tan-Tan for the newly independent Morocco to attend school in Marrakesh, and proceeded to study the Quran & Arabic in Cairo, Egypt and Journalism in Damascus, Syria, where he get in touch"
"documents, financial aid, and safehaven before and after operations, as well as some illegal training in France in weapons and explosives."" The authors further comment that his group's ""association with non-communist and nonviolent leaders, including clergymen, has tended to cloak the nature and extent of its operations."" Henri Curiel was assassinated in Paris on 4 May 1978. Two far-right groups (OAS and the Charles Martel Group) claimed responsibility, but the case is still unsolved. Police and journalistic investigations suggest other suspects: Henri Curiel is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Henri Curiel Henri Curiel (13 September 1914 – 4 May"
"achieved one more notable success when he was invited to Tokyo, Japan during the 1970s to locate a missing child. As he claimed, he had provided a description of the location in which her body could be found within 24 hours. When her body was found after following his instructions, all details seemed to match exactly with his prediction. There are no known independent sources for this claim. In 1973, two little children were kidnapped by their father in Haute-Savoie (France). In 1976, Gérard Croiset declared briefly by phone: ""They are in Italy"". But the father doesn’t speak Italian, observed"
"Seban and Corinne Herrmann, hope to appeal this decision on the basis of witness statements which they believe have not been followed up. In 2015, the Court of Appeal reopened the case and ordered new investigations. Disappearance of Ludovic Janvier Ludovic Janvier is a six-year-old French boy who went missing on <time>17 March 1983 from</time> Saint-Martin-d'Hères, a suburb of Grenoble, in the Isère département of south-eastern France. His disappearance has been linked to that of several other children in the area, collectively known as the Disparus de l'Isère (literally, the ""Disappeared of the Isère""). Ludovic's whereabouts remain unknown to this"
"government awarded Bacos and his crew medals for heroism, for refusing to leave the Jewish passengers behind. In June 2008, Bacos was awarded the B'nai B'rith International ""Ménoras d'Or"" (Golden Menorah) in Cannes, France. Bacos retired from Air France in 1982, and resides in Nice, France with his wife as of 2006. At that time, he had seven grandchildren. Michel Bacos Michel Bacos (born 1924) was captain of Air France Flight 139 when the plane was hijacked on June 27, 1976, by Palestinian and German terrorists. The hijacking, by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was part"
"1978. Despite their travails, Rejewski and Zygalski had fared better than some of their colleagues. Cadix's Polish military chiefs, Langer and Ciężki, had also been captured by the Germans, as they tried to escape from France into Spain on the night of March 10–11, 1943 along with three other Poles: Antoni Palluth, Edward Fokczyński and Kazimierz Gaca. The first two became prisoners of war; the other three were sent as slave labourers to Germany, where Palluth and Fokczyński perished. Despite the varyingly dire circumstances in which they were held, none of them Stefan Mayer emphasizes betrayed the secret of Enigma's"
"southern suburbs of Beirut by construction workers, and were formally identified after DNA testing. His wife is the Syrian novelist Marie Seurat. Michel Seurat Michel Seurat was a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS, born 14 August 1947 in Tunisia and died in Beirut in 1986. He was kidnapped on May 22, 1985, in Lebanon, by the Islamic Jihad Organization, a Lebanese terrorist organization that was the precursor to Hezbollah. Unlike his cellmate Jean-Paul Kauffmann, also kidnapped the same day, he was not released. On 5 March 1986 Islamic Jihad stated that it had executed Seurat; however, his fellow hostages"
"1976 in Mahajanga, in which at least 1,400 Comorians were killed. As many as 17,000 Comorians left Madagascar to seek refuge in their native land in 1977 alone. About 100,000 Comorians live in France; many of them had gone there for a university education and never returned. Small numbers of Indians, Malagasy, South Africans, and Europeans (mostly French) live on the islands and play an important role in the economy. Most French left after independence in 1975. Some Persian Gulf countries started buying Comorian citizenship for their stateless bidoon residents and deporting them to Comoros. UN medium variant projections. Statistics"
"Dominick Arduin Dominick Arduin (1961–2004) was a Frenchwoman who disappeared in her attempt to ski to the North Pole. In 1988 Arduin moved to Finland. For 15 years she worked as a guide in Finnish Lapland and received dual citizenship. She said that she had grown up in the Alps, that she had been orphaned at an early age, had recovered from cancer and had been the only child aside from a dead sister. This backstory of hers was discovered to be lies after her disappearance. Arduin reached the Magnetic North Pole in the spring 2001. She was rescued after"
"the rest of the crew; Australian Hurricane pilot Leslie Clisby, who died during the Battle of France in 1940, and was the first RAF ace of the war to be lost in action; and New Zealand Hurricane pilot Cobber Kain, first RAF ace of the war, who also died during the Battle of France. Choloy-Ménillot Choloy-Ménillot is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. It is located 28 kilometres west of Nancy and 5 kilometres west of Toul. Near the village is the Royal Canadian Air Force Cemetery Choloy, which contains the remains of Canadian military personnel or"
"p.m. on Tuesday 14 January 1986. Also killed onboard was the singer-songwriter Daniel Balavoine, helicopter pilot François-Xavier Bagnoud, journalist Nathalie Odent and Jean-Paul Lefur who was a radiophonic engineer for RTL. Sabine's ashes were spread at the Lost Tree in Niger, which the rally thereafter described as the ""Arbre Thierry Sabine"". He was featured in the movie """" released in 1986. Thierry Sabine Thierry Sabine (13 June 1949, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 14 January 1986, Mali) was a French wrangler, motorcycle racer and founder and main organizer of Paris Dakar. In 1977 he got lost in the Tenere Desert during the Abidjan-Nice"
"1976, killing hundreds of civilians, as well as the fate of hundreds of ""disappeared"" Sahrawi civilians sequestered by Moroccan military or police forces, most of them during the Western Sahara War. Other accusations are the torture, repression and imprisonment of Sahrawis who oppose peacefully the Moroccan occupation, the expulsion from the territory of foreign journalist, teachers and NGO members, the discrimination of the Sahrawis on the labor and the spoliation of the natural resources of the territory. On the 15th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, former prisoner, human rights defender and second vice-president of CODESA (Collective of"
"funeral was attended by Roland Dumas and Dieudonné M'bala M'bala. Vergès is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery. Jacques Vergès Jacques Vergès (5 March 1925 – 15 August 2013) was a Siamese-born French lawyer, writer and political activist who earned fame for his defense of FLN militants during the Algerian War of Independence. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1960 and temporarily lost his license to officially practice law. A supporter of the Palestinian fedayeen in the 1960s, he disappeared from 1970 to 1978 without ever explaining his whereabouts during that period. He had been involved then in legal cases"
"Cézanne was missing. Jonas and then his widow, Assunta Jonas, made numerous inquiries, but were refused information by the National Gallery. It was only in April 2013 that the gallery acknowledged that it had possession of the watercolor. Citations Sources Édouard Jonas Édouard Jonas (9 May 1883 – 3 December 1961) was an antique dealer of Jewish origin, who became a member of the French parliament. When France surrendered to the Germans in 1940 he left the country. He was stripped of his citizenship and his property seized. After the war he was made a member of the Legion of"
"Murder of Dora Bloch In June 1976, Dora Bloch (), a dual Israeli-British citizen, was a hostage on Air France Flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Paris, which was hijacked after a stopover in Athens and rerouted to Entebbe, Uganda. Bloch was taken ill on the plane and was taken to a hospital in Kampala; she was not rescued with the other hostages during Operation Entebbe, but went missing from the hospital. Her disappearance led to Britain cutting diplomatic ties with Uganda. Her body was discovered in 1979 in a sugar plantation near the capital. In February 2007, declassified British"
"the attack on Dieppe, his friend Fayolle disappeared. On 5 September, Labouchère disappeared in turn, during air-to-air combat. His body has never been recovered. François de Labouchère François de Labouchere, born at Saint-Jean-le-Vieux (Ain) on 18 September 1917 and killed in air-to-air combat on 5 September 1942, was a French pilot of the Second World War. François de Labouchere was one of the first pilots to join the Free French Air Force. He was a cadet pilot at the time of the Battle of France, during which his father (a cavalry officer) died. He was in Morocco when the armistice"
"Édouard-Jean Empain Édouard-Jean, 3rd Baron Empain (7 October 1937 – 21 June 2018) was a French-Belgian industrialist, best known by the general public for his kidnapping in 1978. Between 1969 and 1981, Baron Empain was CEO of the Schneider group (Schneider-Empain). The Baron was the son of Jean, 2nd Baron Empain, and the grandson of Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain. He married the Italian Silvana Betuzzi in 1957 by whom he has two daughters and a son, they were divorced shortly after Empain's kidnapping. He lived in the suburbs of Paris with his second wife Jacqueline (née Ragonaux), a"
"high-profile conflicts in the world in various countries. In 1970 Gilles Caron went to Cambodia after king Norodom Sihanouk was deposed by Lon Nol on March 18, 1970. On April 5 Gilles Caron disappeared on Route 1, a road between Cambodia and Vietnam controlled by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Gilles Caron Gilles Caron (July 8, 1939 – April 5, 1970) was a French photographer and photojournalist. Gilles Caron was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France, of a Scottish mother and a French father, Edouard Caron, an insurance company manager. After the divorce of his parents in 1946, Caron spent 7 years"
"absentia"" and was killed along a country road by members of a French resistance group on 26 April 1944, at the age of 51, while out driving with friends who were also collaborators. Two other passengers were little children. They too were killed. Her body, riddled with bullets, was never claimed, and was buried in a communal grave. Violette Morris Violette Morris (18 April 1893 – 26 April 1944) was a French athlete who won two gold and one silver medals at the Women's World Games in 1921–1922. in 1936, she became a spy for Nazi Germany, which continued during"
"et les neutralistes laotiens tiennent l’extrême droite en échec,"" ""La Monde Diplomatique"" (April 1974). Marc Filloux Marc Filloux (2 November 1944 – ca. 14 April 1974) a French journalist based in Vientiane, Laos for Agence France-Presse who disappeared and was killed along with his translator and girlfriend in Cambodia when he attempted to be the first to obtain an interview with the Khmer Rouge's leaders during the Cambodian Civil War. Filloux was the 22nd journalist killed in Cambodia and one of 8 French journalists and one of 37 journalists overall. Marc Filloux was 29 at the time of his death."