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TWENTY YEARS and more ago, long before I came to live in the village, part of the church roof fell in during Mass. No one was immediately beneath it at the time, no one was hurt although several were shaken...

I have just survived the most trying month of the year in France. September is not all balmy evenings and rosé wine...

Some people say they move to France because it is like England was 50 years ago. If you want somewhere that is like England 100 years ago, then you should move to Pau and join the English Club...

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When Olivier Lesault went to the Béziers Chamber of Commerce recently to register his new air conditioning business, he was amazed to find that the common language was English. "Every artisan there was British,” he says. “There were plumbers, welders, builders and carpenters, I couldn't believe it."

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I'D BETTER state right at the outset that this piece is very seriously flawed, because most of it's about an event that I didn't go to, have never been to and would rather have all my teeth pulled than be seen dead at or associating with its palsi

AS IF having ringside seats for the Tour de France as it flashed through the village a few weeks ago wasn't enough, the rugby fever sweeping through France, host nation for the World Cup, caught us up unresisting in its onward drive for the touch-line.

In my last column I argued that the only way to save France was to get some Brits in charge. This produced an extraordinary mailbag...