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Meet France's great garden acrobat
With its bright yellow and blue plumage, the Eurasian blue tit is easy to spot in the garden.
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Petit lapin, coup du lapin: 6 commonly used French rabbit expressions
A potential new penalty for missing a doctor’s appointment has also been nicknamed la taxe lapin - we explain why
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Full tour of Carcassone’s medieval ramparts to open for the first time
Visitors will be allowed to walk all three kilometres of its historic walls from September
Piglettes - Clémentine Beauvais
Aimed at the teen market, the writing style is bubbly, bright and full of impish humour.
The blurb says it will make you smile and it does, possibly even laugh out loud as we meet Mireille, Astrid and Hakima – the three ugliest girls in school, says a Facebook vote.
That last phrase sums up a large part of the book which targets online bullying, body image, racism and disability.
Mireille is the love-child of the husband of the French president. He does not reply to her letters, so she and her friends cycle to Paris to crash the Elysée garden party. The media hear about their road trip…
