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Long, cold, wait fails to put people off queuing in early February outside a French bookshop in London to meet former president in town to sign copies of his book Lessons of Power

This is a hard winter: hard in France, where the president appears reduced to going on his knees before his electorate to ward off anarchy; and hard for Britons living in France, watching the dishonesty and incompetence of Westminster politicians in providing anything approaching leadership with respect to Britain’s future relationship – if any – with the European Union. It is at such times that one searches for consolation. 

 Anybody who attempts to evoke an image of Adolf Hitler to make a point about a modern politician is on shaky ground.

Two events all Parisians dread: receiving a Registered Letter Return Receipt Requested, and locking themselves out of their apartments.

I have just read a very interesting book – That Sweet Enemy – on the love-hate relationship between Britain and France by the Anglo-French historians Robert and Isabelle Tombs.

I have never read such a negative comment on the gilets jaunes as the letter (January edition) from Ms Lebreton-Travis.

Please pass on our congratulations to Daniele Lebreton-Travis for her Letter of the Month (January edition).

Connexion’s interview with Cédric Szabo of the Association des maires ruraux de France (January edition) reads like so many PR pieces allowing lobbies to present their arguments without challenge.

RE: the letter “Only a Fool Breaks Two Second Rule” (January), I would suggest another reason for so many fatalities on French roads is the lack of lighting.

Re: The recent letter headlined “Humiliating faff” about applying for a carte de séjour...