John Lichfield
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John Lichfield: What a relief to be driving in disguise
Monday, 16 November 2009
Parisians, it seems, are choosing to identify with the département 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
Even the French are starting to worry about healthcare
Thursday, 27 August 2009
John Lichfield: France has the worst health system in the world, except for all the others I've tried
John Lichfield’s France: In the land where everyone is at home in their maison secondaire
Saturday, 1 August 2009
For the French middle class, a ‘little place in the country’ is just part of life
John Lichfield: The life cycle of the Dutch teenager
Monday, 20 July 2009
Emmeloord Notebook: Teenagers chatted each other up by cycling in slow circles, without dismounting
John Lichfield: Road deaths back on political radar
Monday, 13 July 2009
Paris Notebook: I suspect that many radar traps have been switched off to increase the President's popularity rating
John Lichfield: How I became chic growing roses and parsnips
Sunday, 21 June 2009
For the first time in my life, possibly only briefly, I have reached the pinnacle of Parisian chic. The newspaper, Le Figaro, has published a list of what it calls the panoplie du snob: a catalogue of 50 things which are at the furthest cutting-edge of in-your-face trendiness amongst the wealthy, Parisian chattering classes.
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