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Presentation  by French TV of the year 2015 that was. Between the atrocities of Charlie and those of the Bataclan , it was indeed a grim ye...

I'm not likely to forget the opening day of the Beijing games. It's the day I picked up my new French identity card. I hope the data...

On 18 June in 1940 [my year of birth], Charles de Gaulle broadcast a call from London on BBC radio inviting his compatriots to join his res...

This morning, I received a friendly letter from the French authorities in charge of naturalizations. Its opening line: J'ai le plaisir d...

In the current French political climate, I often feel that, every time I dare to throw the term "naturalization" into my Antipodes...

In my genealogical research over the last quarter of a century, I've collected all kinds of so-called BDM certificates [births, deaths a...

I've never ventured into a pawn shop with stuff to sell. [I'm told that my mother was keen on this kind of transaction, and that our...