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Americans in France: do 'visitor' visas enable 'free' healthcare as French MPs claim?
Wealthy newcomers may already be eligible to pay high level of ‘Puma tax’
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Homeowner finds gold worth €700,000 buried in his French garden - and can keep it
Gold coins and ingots were discovered as he began digging to put in a pool
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Gas canisters found in car driven into people in Île d’Oléron
Driver deliberately rammed into pedestrians and cyclists on Charente-Maritime holiday island
Puy du Fou looks abroad
Extravagant theme park Puy du Fou marked its 40th birthday this summer with the news it is expanding to set up sister parks in Spain at Toledo and, in the next decade, China.
Famed for spectacular and pyrotechnic historical re-enactments, it is more than a key destination in Vendée as it is France’s most popular theme park after Disneyland Paris, with more than two million visitors. In 2016 founder Philippe de Villiers paid €377,000 for a ring that belonged to Joan of Arc to be displayed at the park.
