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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
Miss France organiser Geneviève de Fontenay fears she is fighting a losing battle to protect her 'Cinderella dream' from vulgarity
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Normandy Landings visit for Queen
Queen Elizabeth has confirmed a state visit to France, ending rumours she is handing over duties to Charles
Dating tale is so true
Susan GABRIEL, by email
SAMANTHA Brick’s observations: “Dating a French man is a full-time job” (Connexion, May) about a Frenchman’s attitude to love and to a new girlfriend were very well put. I first met my Frenchman, mon ami Pierrot, in 1995 and the courtship went very much as described. I tried living with him – impossible, he’s too controlling – so now we live next door to one another and meet each evening at 19.00 for apéros and I give him a listening ear. That’s how to keep a French-man happy – listen to him – oh, and regularly congratulate him on what he has done at work and home.