The December 2006 issue of Nuts and Volts has an article on P48 called 
"Build an East-West Compass".  While I'm not really interested in this 
project, the article states that the definition of magnetic N and S are 
reversed in France, relative to the rest of the world, so that, for 
example, the "N" pole of a French bar magnet attracts the "N" pole of an 
English or German bar magnet.

I have a hard time believing this because, among other things, the 
definition of magnetic poles is intimately connected with the direction 
of current flow through a wire.  Are the French mostly left-handed?

Can anybody authoritatively confirm or deny this supposed difference 
regarding magnetic pole definitions?
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*Carey Fisher*

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