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REGIONAL CAPITAL: Rouen
DEPARTMENTS: Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne, Seine-Maritime
MAIN TOWNS: Le Havre, Caen, Evreux, Cherbourg, Dieppe, Bayeux, Deauville, Saint-Lô, Trouville 

France’s Pavillon Bleu was the world’s first blue flag scheme for clean beaches. Here, Samantha David finds out what coastal authorities have to do to be awarded the prestigious mark

Gillian Harvey asks stress-management coach, clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist Irena-Marie Makowska for tips on creating a happier life in France, and talks to three people who have managed it