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Should you use vous or tu when talking to your neighbour? Your bank manager? Your dog? Your husband?

There is no doubt that the last ten years have been as imprecise as they were chaotic.

Almost the only thing clear about the industrial action slowly paralysing France as Christmas approached was that it was going to bring a very unfestive festive season.

Every month the British Ambassador to France, Ed Llewellyn, shares an insight into his role; below is his December column

A sea-change in our attitude towards our natural world needs to take place if our planet is to be saved. 

A British native, I have been living in France for the last 57 years. Before that, my home was in the north of England but when I was 15 I did an exchange with a girl in Alsace where I met the family.

I once had the humiliating experience of working alongside a professional grape picker. By lunchtime he had covered stacks more rows than me.

We live in Poitiers where, besides the excessive prices of any food, bio or not, the quality is also bad, in all the supermarkets.

As a result of the article in Connexion about how the UK lied to me about pension rights, the campaign group British Pensioners for Justice has received nearly 200 messages of support.

I hired a car through Vehicle-Rent.com online from Bordeaux-Mérignac.