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| | A-Z France - Telegraph |
 | | One moment, they're wondering whether they might be permitted the honour of wishing you the very best of afternoons, the next they're telling you they haven't got your reservation, have never had it and neither know nor care what you're going to do about it. |
 | | N is for No Surrender, the old French attitude to traffic lights, speed limits and anything else that interfered with their God-given right to thunder through the road network, killing themselves in prodigious quantities. |
 | | So observe the limits (56mph normal roads, 68mph dual carriageways, 81mph motorways), adjust your headlight dip, remember that STOP means stop (not "inch forward slowly") and that you shouldn't have under-10s in the front seat or under-18s behind the wheel. |
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