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Gas prices in France to rise 6.6% from November 1: six million households affected
Fixed-price gas contracts will not be affected
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Readers reveal their funniest French language blunders
Mispronunciations and misunderstandings are almost inevitable
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France's role in World War Two is debatable
Reader responds to Simon Heffer's opinion piece
Nuclear plan is correct
Bravo Hulot! (Minister to delay decommissioning nuclear power stations).
It might be the smallest of steps in the right direction but at last someone has realised the obvious: the wind doesn’t blow to order, the sun doesn’t shine at night and electricity cannot be stored, so for France to arbitrarily commit to reducing its nuclear capacity and rely on so-called renewable sources of electricity will either hugely increase carbon dioxide emissions because of the need to burn coal, oil or gas to compensate or our lights will go out and our heating off.
Ian Halliday, Cantal