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In a lawsuit alleging that a Paris office of Adecco (one of the world's largest hiring agencies for temporaries) violated the rights of at least 1,500 applicants by denying them jobs based on the color of their skin, Gerald Roffat, an intern in Adecco,

testified that in 2000 they were using race-based classification systems for applicants. After candidates completed applications, the forms were marked with the notation "BBR" or "NBBR," according to Roffat, SOS Racism, documents and witnesses interviewed by police and labor investigators during the five-year probe.

BBR, shorthand for " bleu , blanc , rouge ," or "blue, white, red" -- the colors of the French flag -- identified white candidates, said Samuel Thomas, vice president of SOS Racism. NBBR meant "no blue, white, red," and denoted black and other nonwhite candidates, Thomas said.

The article makes only this one mention of "nonwhite", but in my experience, a lot of French racism is also directed at what the French often call "Arabs", but are in fact people whose ancestry is Northwest African and who sometimes collectively call themselves Maghrebians.