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Many readers queried our interpretation of the letter from the
Ministry on which last month’s article was based, so this is intended
as a cautionary clarification. Until we get a definitive explanation,
it is safer to apply the old rules, as still practised by gendarmes and préfectures
Dear Sir,
After reading your article “Number plate
regulations” I am now completely
confused after having been told by
DVLA that a car used in a foreign
country for more than six months in any
twelve must be registered in that
country, and when the twelve-month
period is passed the car must be
“exported”. Can you possibly clarify all
of this for me, as it appears that the
DVLA do not agree with the reply from
the French Ministry of Transport and
insist that the car must be reregistered in
the country of use.
So do we have to reregister or do
we leave it on English plates?
Yours sincerely,
Patricia M Short
French News replies:
We have since queried the mysterious
letter from the Ministry which prompted
our article on page 61 of the November
issue and a good many enquiries. Our
query about this is now in transit
between departments but we have
nevertheless established that:
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Since a contributor talked about mob rule,
I can't help seeing evidence of it all
around. The contributor reckons it goes back
to the Revolution when they chopped off the
heads of the aristocracy but he notes that
Bordeaux was spared and managed to retain
its grand châteaux. I wonder why. In that
context, the TV programme (FR3) on the
Romanovs presented by ‘royal expert’
Stéphane Bern evoked the growing interest
of the Russian people in reinstating their
royals, dispersed though they are, as an
antidote to their problems of mob rule. The
grand-duchess explained that she had
groomed her son to consider himself “a
father of the people”, echoing the nickname
of a past French king.
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
As part of a study on professional mobility, transports and housing, a researcher at the
CNRS would like to interview British couples with children, living in France. The
couples should be active professionally with at least one of the partners working away from
home and thus not living together on a daily basis. The research aims to understand how such
partners organise their family, domestic and professional life and their needs, which are not
taken into account (by professional companies or by public authorities). The research is
supported both by the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French
Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME). Face-to-face interviews, separate
for husband and wife, can be in French or English. Each interview lasts 1h30 approximately.
Information given at the time of the interview will be recorded but interviewees will remain
anonymous.
Contact Caroline Legrand, email
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Dear Madam,
Some of your correspondents seem to be
misinformed. 'Nil carborundum' is clearly
meaningless (it might be an angry ejaculation
provoked by a lack of sandpaper). About 60
years ago, two useful pieces of advice were:
Noli illegitimes carborundi (Don't let the
bastards grind you down) and Noli contra
ventum gobbere (Don’t spit into the wind)
Hopefully this subject is now clarified
and the correspondence can end.
Colin Bainbridge, Queyrac
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would have liked to have sent a cheque to
Ms Dobson (equine rescue centre) but there
is only some idiotic website. It would be so
much easier (for those who do not have
internet, phone or a car) if an account
number and bank could be quoted.
Also, it is next to impossible to find out
what certain abbreviations mean, viz SARL,
15bis (for a house number). There are also
new words such as Grenelle, écopastille.
Stella Baum, Neuvic
Sorry for assuming everyone could get on
internet. The Equine Rescue Centre: La
Chaux, 86400 Linazay, tel. 05 49 97 10 17. A
SARL is a private limited company, 15bis is
like 15b); Grenelle, as explained on the
environment page and elsewhere, is a
summit. I haven’t come across an écopastille
(something to do with washing powder?).
Can other readers explain? – Ed
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