French baguettes get Unesco world heritage status - in pictures

A baker takes baguettes out of an oven at a bakery in Versailles. The French baguette has been given Unesco World Heritage status. AP
French supporters holding baguettes prior to the World Cup 2006 semi-final football match. AFP
A little boy buys baguettes as Parisians stock up on bread for two days in preparation for a bakers' strike in Paris in 1949. AFP
France’s 'Bread Observatory' notes that the French munch through 320 baguettes of one form or another every second - an average of half a baguette per person per day, and 10 billion every year. AFP
Parisians in 1944 buying bread after years of living of on rations. AFP
A seller carries baguettes on his head in a market at Bangui in the Central African Republic. AFP