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"Vous" or "tu", but don't let's drop the "tu"
| 27/09/2012
How do you say "you" in English? There's no choice in this century: you just say - or write - "you". But you have a choice - an intriguing and sometimes embarrassing choice - in French, as well as in...
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There's magic in the sky above Dieppe
| 10/09/2012
It happens every two years in the sky above Dieppe. For two weeks in September, the view above the wide seafront lawns is painted in all the colours of our planet. The event: Dieppe's International...
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Remember the Dieppe Raid of 1942
| 13/08/2012
It is not often that Dieppe is at the centre of a major international occasion. It is this month. Seventy years ago, on the morning of 19 August 1942, a flotilla sailed across the Channel from four...
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A tale of two beaches
| 30/07/2012
You may have noticed: it's been rather hot this past week. In Normandy and also in Sussex, at the other end of the Dieppe-Newhaven ferry route.
We were sitting a few evenings ago at a table at the...
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That was the Tour that was
| 05/07/2012
There we were. At our windows. Ranged in hundreds along the pavements. Forbidden to cross the road. Waiting for the great moment: the lightning passage of the Tour de France. And it was all happening...
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