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	Paris:During the 1980s, President François Mitterand initiated the futuristic grands projets, a series of costly building projects that garnered widespread approval even when the results were popular failures. Responses to the flashier examples, like the Centre Pompidou and the glass pyramids in the Louvre, have ranged from appalled 'mon Dieux' to absolute doting rapture; if nothing else, the projets invigorated dialogue about the Parisian aesthetic. In the late 1990s, the city dominated the international spotlight with two front-page events: the rumour-plagued auto-accident death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in August 1997 (though it's arguable that an idealised icon can ever really die), and France's first-ever World Cup victory (3-0 over the odds-on favourite, Brazil) in July 1998. Both events brought Parisians out into the streets by the thousands and international press corps in droves. Of less emotional interest but nonetheless significant, the political party behind Jacques Chirac, who has been France's president since mid-1995, lost the country's parliamentary elections in June 1997 to a coalition of Socialists, Communists and Greens headed by current Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. Jospin continues to be seen in a favourable light by the majority of the French.