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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
A ‘French News’ correspondent suggests the French Ministry of Finance would do well to study Charles Darwin.
Parasites should never kill their hosts. This is the
elementary lesson all parasitologists learn on day one.
Kill your host and you have nothing to live on and your
parasitic master race will be doomed. Unless of course you
are a really rampant killer parasite and the death of your
host and succour is just one more step to an easy life of
living and breeding without the boring business of finding
food for yourself.
But let us stick to the self interested, ‘brighter’ sort of
parasite, represented in this case by, say, the Ministry of
Finance of a country with a rather high level of
unemployment.
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Last November, my husband and I
decided to treat ourselves to a new flatscreen
TV on sale at Géant supermarket
in Angoulême for €1,099, with the
option to pay over 10 months. I paid
with my Géant card. It took half an
hour, three assistants and two attempts.
When I found that the €151.38 had,
despite their assurance, been deducted
twice, I went back to the supermarket
with my bank statement, and it was
agreed the money would be repaid. I
was later told that repayment would
take two weeks. I went back again to
protest at the delay and was told that if
I obtained a certificat d’attestation from
my bank I would be repaid sooner. I did
this and a seven-day period was
proposed. Further unpleasantness on my
part reduced this to three days and the
€151.38 was paid on November 30.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
On August 28, 2007, I placed an order
with the Saint-Brieuc representative of
AB Fenêtres (head office Le Mans).
The order gave an completion delay for
the installation of 14 weeks –
approximately Dec 4. After the surveyor
had been, I paid a deposit of €2589.90.
In November, I rang the rep and
asked for an installation date and was
given December 19. I rang on that date
and asked what time the fitters would
arrive, only to be told that installation
would not be until January. I was not
happy with this and wrote a letter to the
Saint-Brieuc office (by registered post)
stating that I wanted a firm installation
date in January. I received a letter
within two days, offering a 5% discount
and saying that the installation would
be completed by the end of January.
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We wish to leave our bodies to
medical science and although we
can find out where to leave our various
organs, we don’t know how to leave the
whole body (after death!) We signed
papers to this effect in England and
would now like to do the same here in
France. Can you help?
JJ (Gers)
Jo Stirling replies
In France, 2,500 men and women leave
their bodies each year to science, that
is, to teaching hospitals and research.
Every adult has this right, other than
those under guardianship or in prison,
and family has no right of consent or
opposition. You can choose to which
establishment you wish to give your
body from a list of faculties of medicine
all over France who handle this service
(See the link below.) For residents of
Paris or Île de France, two
establishments are competent –
L’Institut d’anatomie de l’université
René-Descartes and l’École de chirurgie
de l’AP-HP or l’Assistance Publique –
Hôpitaux de Paris.
For the Gers, where you live, your
nearest faculté de medecine is in
Toulouse, at the following address:
Faculté de médicine Toulouse
133 Rue de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse
Tel 05 62 88 90 00
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
We live in the Auvergne. We want to turn an area of 32m2 into
a room, so we have to change the facade of our house from
old garage doors. We want to build a wall about 1.6m high
with new windows above, thus altering the front of the house.
We have a certificate from the mayor of the village, and we
now have to visit Cusset for building permission, which will
alter our impôt. Have you any advice or suggestions as how
to approach the local government departments to (a) get
permission and (b) to avoid a big increase in taxes? So far
they have asked us to provide the square metrage of the
exterior of the whole house less 15%. Do we include an
attached lean-to stone store?
We look forward to your comments.
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