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Huan Huan, a giant panda loaned to France by China, gave birth on Monday to twin cubs described as 'magnificent' by the director of the Zoo-Parc de Beauval in central France where she and the father, Yuan Zi, are kept. 

Two mothers unwittingly left a Cannes maternity clinic in 1994 with the other's daughter after incubator mixup revealed years later by DNA test.

The families of the two babies only found out about the hospital mix-up in the south of France when the girls were aged ten.

Carla Bruni, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, gave birth to a girl at a Paris clinic late Wednesday.