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The focus is on security, skills and the knowledge of the hunter rather than the gun(s) they possess (as in the UK)

Simon Heffer, the renowned political commentator and historian, turns his gaze to French politics

France is the world’s most visited nation so it should be making more money out of tourism than any other country, right?

The government has promised to re-introduce a 'police de proximité', which is usually translated as 'community policing' but really means 'police who are nearby' ie police officers walking the beat as they once used to do.

For many of your readers the Avis d’Impôt sur les Revenus 2016 will have arrived recently.

After the ghastly Brexit vote, I thought I’d better apply for French citizenship, as I have been living and working here for over 20 years. 

While the world is in a bit of turmoil as it was in 1789, the French have stepped up to the plate to lead the way again with Emmanuel Macron’s astonishing victory in the pres­idential election, cemented in the Assembly elections.

JO French (Letters, August) has completely lost the plot. Britain is a democracy with a first past the post system.

I have just become a great-great-uncle and so welcome to the planet, baby Josephine! The birth was signalled by relatives in England as ‘7 lbs, 5 oz’.

We should remind ourselves that Her Majesty’s government embarked well over 40 years ago upon a programme of metrication and subsequently allowed the process to run aground along the way.

In reply to your online article about the [alcohol-free] L’Arbre qui marche festival in St.Martin du Bois (49): I live on the road that leads to the festival car park and the numbers of very polite young people who walked past whilst I was in the garden, all with a polite bonjour or bonsoir, was a delight.