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Before Oddbins and Majestic Wine there was Peter Dominic wine merchants, offering a range from the petillant Portugese favoured by stude...

No, I haven't muddled minuscules and majuscules in a fuddle of Funchal: I wish to consider two institutions. The first, Ena Sharp...

I miss my copy of Le Canard Enchaine  (the duck in chains) every Wednesday. The editorial buggers are so French that they refuse to ha...

In the Loire Valley you are never far away from the French kings who built and occupied the chateaux we now visit as historic monuments. ...

An extract from a letter..... 1774 August 24 Louis XVI, King of France , Having just left Your Majesty's room, still full of ...

I'm not good at baking.......though if I'd watched The Great British Bake Off at a formative age I reckon I'd be considerab...

While I know that he didn't, for someone who took his education elsewhere Mr. Hollande, (Moije) President of France, shows all the s...