James Dalrymple explains how he went about getting a carte d’identité for his five week old daughter, and how he learnt to let sleeping babies lie

As an Anglophone in Grenoble you may, like me, have had something of an adjustment period regarding the service culture in France. There are several deeply instilled beliefs that you may have to abandon like the hardest of bad habits, for instance the not necessarily culturally-translatable motto “the customer is always right”. The customer and [...]