Posts Tagged ‘Collobrières’

REMEMBER THE FRANC? THE FRENCH DO

July 2, 2008

Not sure what this says about the French–or about us–but Collobrières, a village of 1,600 souls in Provence, has started using the franc again, according to this recent piece in the New York Times.
The franc retired, of course, in 2002–when the euro arrived to build, as NYT reporter Steven Erlanger says, “a united Europe.”
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