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British retiree cycles entire Tour de France route for charity
Dyll Davies, 66, rode 6,400km over 41 days
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18 French departments launch service to help elderly with administrative procedures
‘Help desks’ will be set up in public establishments such as town halls and post offices
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Graphic: One in five French workers employed in state sector
There are nearly six million workers in the ‘fonction publique’ in France, covering several areas
War memorial a first for Paris
The first monument honouring all 94,415 of Paris’s victims of World War One was inaugurated on November 11.

The 280m monument at the Père-Lachaise cemetery consists of 150 blue steel panels, engraved with the names of the city’s war dead in alphabetical order. There are many smaller monuments in the city but until now not one with all the names.
It took eight years to identify all the names from lists in each of the city’s arrondissements.