John Lichfield
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John Lichfield: Making a meal out of old chestnuts
Saturday, 23 January 2010
If French home cooking is dead, who uses all the food markets, butchers and fishmongers of Paris?
John Lichfield: Nothing French about fraternity
Monday, 4 January 2010
The casual rudeness which foreigners associate with the French is mostly the fault of the Parisians
John Lichfield: The First Lady and a down-and-out
Monday, 28 December 2009
In another recent TV interview, the Première Dame turned philosopher
John Lichfield: Cafe society is dead, but long live the cafe
Monday, 30 November 2009
Paris Notebook: The cafe is no longer a community in which strangers become, briefly, friends
John Lichfield: Dream ticket may send the rest of Europe to sleep
Friday, 20 November 2009
They will be cheering in the bars of Riga and stomping their feet in the pubs of Rotherham. Europe's dynamic duo is... Herman van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton.
John Lichfield: What a relief to be driving in disguise
Monday, 16 November 2009
Parisians, it seems, are choosing to identify with the d�partement of their grand-parents; or their holiday homes
John Lichfield: Sarkozy's happiness index is worth taking seriously
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Out of France: GDP tables don't tell the whole story – we need to measure our 'joie de vivre'
John Lichfield: When a kiss is not just a kiss
Monday, 14 September 2009
Paris Notebook: The bise, and the handshake, are hard-wired into the French psyche
John Lichfield: Our neighbours are now a public menace
Monday, 31 August 2009
The wild boar population of France has increased five-fold in the last 20 years
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