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GR, GRP, PR: What do the French hiking signs mean?
What are the coloured symbols on French hiking routes? Who paints them there and why?
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Miss France: glam - but not sexy
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Normandy Landings visit for Queen
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Are pre-nuptial medicals needed?
Medicals before marriage were abolished in January 2008.
Medicals before marriage were abolished in January 2008. The MP proposing it said it would save €14 million a year in reimbursements.
The test, dating from 1942, checked the couple’s health and the doctor advised about pregnancy and contraception.
It was argued that many children are born outside marriage or to pacsed couples and such advice is in any case now easily accessible.