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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 principles to assist anybody facing the prospect of dealing with a French succession, be it for a holiday home or somebody’s entire estate. This article does not propose to deal with how French inheritance law actually operates.

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

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English Language Bookshops

Internet holds no terrors for Riviera English Language Bookshops

In Shakespeare’s Richard II, when the King banishes the Duke of Norfolk into exile, ‘never to return’, Norfolk’s plea for compassion is not abo...

Last Updated ( Monday, 20 October 2008 14:29 )

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Driving in France

Much like learning French, driving in France may seem a little daunting and complicated at first. Their famous priorité à droite (priority from the right) can still be a bit baffling as can the way some town sign...

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Becoming Mr Fix-It

Introducing this case history, editor Joe Laredo remarks: Gordon Taylor found a niche market for his maintenance service, partly by chance and partly through perseverance. Like other entrepreneurs, however, he has t...
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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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Buying Property on the Cote d'Azur (1)

In 2003 we decided to sell our property in Chateauneuf-de-Grasse and buy another home in the Var departément. And so began a most incredible journey for us - both as vendor and buyer. In the end we realised that ou...

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 June 2008 17:18 )

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Instructing a Surveyor

In the UK lending institutions insist on a basic structural survey before agreeing to grant a mortgage. Any self-respecting solicitor will advise a client to have a survey carried out prior to committing themselves ...

Last Updated ( Saturday, 02 August 2008 12:59 )

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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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