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Imprisoned Nicolas Sarkozy personifies France's political crisis
Columnist Nabila Ramdani examines the former president's troubles
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Bread, bacon and beans: British food habits on trial in France
Columnist Samantha David carefully navigates a discussion with a taxi driver on a delicate subject: the French breakfast
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France's new foreign income rules are making our lives complicated
Readers outline their struggles in getting French nationality
Keyboard tips
Connexion readers share their tricks
With reference to “Revert to type” (December) why not do what I did – buy a French AZERTY keyboard and re-configure your PC? Then you have all of your accents at your fingertips. You soon get used to it but may have to check your “A”s & “Q”s to start with!
Dr Bernard Juby, Maine-et-Loire
In Windows 10, for a physical keyboard, download the “Dutch, NLD” keyboard which puts accents on vowels by pressing ‘ or ` before pressing the vowel.
To get these symbols only, press the spacebar after.
Colin Jones, Hérault