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Video. Cheek kisses to table manners: A guide to perfect French etiquette

Updated: 20/07/2024 - 11:01 GMT+2

One woman in Versailles has made it her life’s work to teach people the correct way to behave in French polite society: from the polite way to eat soup to specific gender rules.

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