In France, a bold step or two into the street ... Andy, in his first attempt to communicate with a Parisian, spoke in English to a storekeeper who understood little of what he said.

"C'est la vie, as we say in France," she cheered. Laurelen A., who is from Annecy, which is the largest city of Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France ...