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(From Reinsurance)
There's a book currently doing rather well in the bestseller lists. Its author, Stephen Clarke, recounts the trials and tribulations of an Englishman in Paris as he tries to establish a tea room, battle bureaucracy, buy a house and still manage to have a reasonable sex life.
The reason it's so pertinent is its title, A Year in the Merde - which seems particularly apt to describe the kind of year the French themselves have had. What with the 'Non' vote on the European Referendum, losing the 2012 Olympics, coping with street riots and now a possible financial scandal implicating the debonair prime minister, de Villepin, it's hardly been ...