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La Rentrée, or, Back-to School à la Française

La Rentrée, or, Back-to School à la Française

Every child in France went back to school the first week of September.  The French call it la rentrée—literally, the return—and it means more than the return to school. 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 November 2008 17:38 )

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Obligatory Lead Report for Rental Contracts

From 12th August 2008, a report on the risk of exposure to lead must be annexed to all new or renewed rental contracts concerning property for which the planning permit was issued prior to 1st January 1949.  This is in addition to the natural and technological risks report which became obligatory from 1st June 2006 and the energy performance report which came into force on 1st July 2007.

Last Updated ( Monday, 20 October 2008 12:14 )

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Napoleon's map searchable online

A government property map database - Le Cadastre - is available online for the first time.

Le Cadastre was created under Napoleon in order to calculate tax on properties.

It is not considered legally binding in terms ...

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Drainage

Recent legislative changes have modified the law with regards to the checks of drainage systems where properties are not connected to mains drainage. A certificate to be provided by the vendor has been introduced bu...

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 16:45 )

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First-Time Buyers

First-Time BuyersWith Spring on the horizon, many new readers will be on their way to France in search of their first home abroad. It is an exciting time and there are few moments more rewarding then the waking up the first day in y...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 June 2008 08:57 )

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Foreigners in France: Triumphs & Disasters

This extract is from a chapter of Joe & Kerry Laredo’s book: Foreigners in France: Triumphs & Disasters reproduced with the kind permission of Survival Books. This particular chapter relates the ups and downs of our...

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 13:41 )

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A French Succession

In this article Headdon Consulting looks at some of the issues surrounding a French succession and how it operates. Clearly, every case scenario is different so this article simply seeks to provide some guiding pri...

Last Updated ( Sunday, 19 October 2008 14:43 )

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Buying Property on the Cote d'Azur (2)

Even if you have read a couple of good books on buying property in France and feel you’ve got a good grasp of things, do take an extra moment or two to review information found on websites belonging to legal advis...

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 June 2008 17:24 )

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Julia Child: My Life in France

If, like me until recently, you had never knowingly heard of Julia Child, it will help to understand that she was, so to speak, America’s answer to Elizabeth David.  It was she who, after the second world war, introduced the dishes and techniques of French cooking to, principally, her countrywomen.  I had been aware of, but never read, her encyclopaedic work Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but could not have told you who had written it (or even that it was an American book).  In fact, Julia Child later parted company from Elizabeth David: while David went on to explore the cuisines of Italy and other Mediterranean countries, Child stuck to that of France but developed her teaching skills into pioneering television cookery programmes decades before they came to clog up our TV channels on a daily basis.

 

Sarah's Midnight Anthology

A year ago I introduced readers of this website to an old friend, Sarah Nock, who had written an insightful  –  and surprisingly funny  –  account of what it is like to suffer from Parkinson’s disease.  (My review of Ponderings on Parkinson’s is still on-site.)  Now she has published another book of a quite different kind: an anthology of verse, but one with a difference.

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