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My car broke down - and the reality of life in rural France hit me hard
Columnist Samantha David laments a lack of understanding about travel challenges in rural France
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Readers’ feedback on Orange two-step authentication issues
Reader Peter Cracknell recently wrote to The Connexion sharing his frustration with accessing his orange.fr emails while visiting the UK. A wave of readers quickly came to his aid
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Moving to France – what we wish we had known
Readers who have already made the move share their experiences
Boney of contention
We must not allow history to become a sourcebook for theme park designers ( Napoleon Bonapark, page 5). We make a mistake if we plunder it merely for entertainment.
If we let a figure like Napoleon – as controversial now as he was in his day – become a caricature hero we may as well forget about history offering valuable lessons.
Napoleon was many things: brilliant general, enlightened despot, dictator, megalomaniac, disseminator of humanitarian European values, genius, flawed man. It is easy to romanticise him but we should never do it in such a way that we forget the reality of the man and become incapable of distinguishing his successes from his failure. Simple he most certainly was not.
