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/ 5 May 2006

Un petit peu de cheese, please

Cheese is a serious business in France. General de Gaulle once famously remarked that it is impossible to govern a country that produces 246 different varieties of the stuff. If any product symbolises the visceral attachment so many French people have to their terroir, it is cheese.

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/ 27 December 2005

Small French village inherits a fortune

Inhabitants of a small village in north-west France were on Monday debating how to spend a fortune left to it by one of its sons who made his money on the other side of the world. Jean Kerfers died earlier this year at Noumea in the Pacific Ocean archipelago of New Caledonia. He had left the village after World War II to work in Australia.

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/ 9 September 2005

French farmer invents milk beer

A resourceful Breton dairy farmer has come up with a new invention: milk beer. ”Everyone thought I was crazy to try to make a milk-based alcohol,” Marcel Besnard said on Friday in Rennes, adding that low prices and strict quotas had led him to consider other ways of marketing milk.