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People People Marion Cotillard One of the most France's most talented actresses has won a historical Oscar for best actress.
Places La Manche La Manche The Department of La Manche is replete with many sights worthy of a visit.
How to take the Paris metro The Paris Metro is probably the quickest way around Paris. Above ground, you are never far from a station. However, if not taken seriously, the Metro can be a strange and confusing world, if it's your first time on it.
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How to Get Cash when in Europe The simple rule in foreign exchange is this: The more often you exchange currency, the more money you lose. Evertime you get money from a bank, the hotel, the ATM, or off your credit card, you will be subject to a retail rate of exchange and a fee.
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How to Get the Best Exchange Rate When traveling, it is important to know how to get the best exchange rate for your hard-earned dollars, or yens, or pounds. Depending on where you travel, currency exchange rates can either help you get great bargains or make your trip surprisingly expensive.
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Postcards from a good life in France: "We'll Always Have Paris ... and Provence" - For close to three decades, Patricia and Walter Wells have been fixtures of the American expat scene in Paris, Patricia as an acclaimed expert in French cooking and restaurant reviewer for the International Herald Tribune, Walter as a senior editor at this newspaper, finally retiring as its executive editor in 2005. Since 1984, though, they have also had another - less visible, more bu...

Drinking in the quietude of southern France - Here in southern France, I hear birds chirping though it's 9:30 at night. I hear TV voices in the apartment next door, one dog barking and another yapping. There's a single car downshifting as it negotiates the U-turn off the road from Montady and continues toward Capestang.

A slight breeze pushes through the leaves of the plane tree in front of the restaurant, as if the l...

A love letter to France - The Age - ...The Melbourne couple's dream of running culinary tours and cooking classes in France was looking increasingly unlikely. Their friends had already branded the idea as crazy. Now the Websters were starting to believe them. Then they saw the chateau. "As you come up the driveway, you get just a glimpse to begin with," Jane says. "Everyone in the car got goosebumps.&qu...

Aime Cesaire, voice of French Black pride, dies - Reuters India- PARIS (Reuters) - French Caribbean poet Aime Cesaire, founding father of the "negritude" movement that celebrated black consciousness, died in his native Martinique, the France's Ministry of Culture said on Thursday. Cesaire, 94, who was mayor of the island's main city Fort-de-France for more than half a century, was admitted to hospital last week suffering from heart...

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