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Americans in France: do 'visitor' visas enable 'free' healthcare as French MPs claim?
Wealthy newcomers may already be eligible to pay high level of ‘Puma tax’
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Homeowner finds gold worth €700,000 buried in his French garden - and can keep it
Gold coins and ingots were discovered as he began digging to put in a pool
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Gas canisters found in car driven into people in Île d’Oléron
Driver deliberately rammed into pedestrians and cyclists on Charente-Maritime holiday island
€24m masterpiece must stay in France
A 13th CENTURY masterpiece – Florentine artist Cimabue’s Mocking of Christ – must stay in France after US buyers paid €24.1million for it.
The 25.8cm by 20.3cm work heralds the start of the Italian renaissance and was found hanging in a modest home in Compiègne, Oise.
The culture minister refused an export licence and has 30 months to fund a purchase.
See also: French family keepsake up for auction at €24m
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