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Dance the fanny dango?
Following on from your recent series of whacky names for French businesses (see here), there was until recently in Pont-Audemer a laundry business called Fanny Pressing.
Here is a photo of something similar taken recently in Graville, Le Havre of a dance studio, rejoicing in the name of Fanny Studio
John Sampson, by email
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