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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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/ 22 March 2006

The seaweed industry, a dangerous way of life

Martine Urvoy will never forget July 3, 1995, the night she was told her husband, Francois, a Breton seaweed fisherman, had been lost at sea. For five terrible hours she had no news of his fate. Finally at daybreak, Francois was found clinging to a rock in the treacherous waters off Brittany’s northern coast.

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