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French court recognises gay couple as parents
A gay couple have been formally recognised as parents by the French state, setting a precedent that could eventually apply to an estimated 200,000 children living in homosexual families in France.
Carla and Marie-Laure, and their daughters Giulietta, 10, Luana, seven, and Zelina, five, have been declared one family by the French courts – the first family with parents of the same sex to be officially endorsed.
French winegrowers puzzled by vandalism
Winegrowers in northeast France are puzzled over the mysterious destruction of large swaths of two vineyards in Alsace, a region along the German border known for full-bodied white wines.
Saboteurs using long-handled pruning shears destroyed about 2,800 grape vines in the past two weeks by slashing their stems close to the soil, the director of the Alsace Wine Growers Association said Friday.
“We don’t really know who could have done this, whether it’s the work of a lunatic – or if it’s a settling of scores,” Jean-Paul Goulby said. “It’s very strange.”
The value of the damage is difficult to estimate, Goulby said, because future crops must be taken into account.
French town is named historic Civil War site
American cannon blasts bellowed in the English Channel 140 years ago, and bloodied bodies lined the deck of a sinking Confederate ship. Onlookers watched in horror from the Normandy coast.
On June 19, 1864, far from battlefields at home, the USS Kearsarge hunted down and sank a dreaded Confederate raider in one of the most important naval battles of the U.S. Civil War — off the coast of France.
The Confederate ship Alabama today lies where it sank under 198 feet of swirling currents about seven nautical miles off the French town of Cherbourg.
French Novelist Francoise Sagan Dead
French novelist Francoise Sagan, known for her haunting novel, Bonjour Tristesse, died Friday at the age of 69.
The Agence France-Presse news agency reported Ms. Sagan died in a hospital in the Normandy town of Honfleur Friday evening. The news agency cited cardio-respiratory problems as the cause of death.
Doctors said the novelist had been admitted several times in recent months to the hospital, which was near her home.
Ms. Sagan catapulted to fame as a teenager, with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness). The bittersweet work depicted life of French bourgeois society at its most sophisticated and cynical. Ms. Sagan came from the same upper class surroundings that she wrote about.
New kid on the block
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it brought me memories of the times I spent in Paris,the real city of lights,arts,culture etc.I love France and maybe someday I’ll be living there.I know very well how to read and translate french,but when it comes to writing and conversation…I can’t do it,english always comes in my head.
So I live in New Jersey/USA and am a freelance artist illustrator in advertising business.I illustrate TV comercials for all sindicated and cable stations all over the country.I work from home via computer.
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HI, MY NAME IS KARINA
HI MY NAME IS KARINA, I AM OF LIMA-PERU, NOW I LIVE IN ARGENTINA CORDOBA… AND I LIKE TO TRAVEL VERY MUCH… I WANT TO KNOW IF TELEPHONIC DIRECTORY IS IN FRANCIA. TO LOOK FOR THE TELEPHONIC NUMBER OF A PERSON. MY EMAIL IS SUTTITA@HOTMAIL.COM
SOMEONE SPEAKS SPANISH
Looking for a french penpal
Bonjour! Je suis 19 ans et habite aux Etats-Unis. Je suis etudie francais a Montana State University. Je voudrais ecris avec une francaise en francais. Aussi, je puis aide vous avec anglais. Mon addresse est gregrwalls@yahoo.com. Ecrivez-moi sil-vous plait!
LOOKING FOR FAMILY MEMBERS
If anyone has any information on the family name of Mabille please contact me at the_cajun@cox.net
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looking for information on move to france
hello my name is chris toner i would like to move to france with my family and would appreciate if either any expats from the uk or anyone could help me this is my first step and as you can appreciate this will be a long and arduous process
kind regards chris toner contact me at chris@ukcouriers.co.uk