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...Each day brings news of fatalities: 16 at a home in central Paris; another 12 in Besançon in the east; seven more in Haute-Savoie....
...Jura and Savoie are on the up....
...With their stylised S logo, Salomon skis, and more recently snowboards, can be seen on slopes around the world....
...I am competing in La Coupe de L’Info, a ski race for journalists organised by the French Tourist Board and held since 2007 in the resort of Courchevel in the Savoie region of the Alps....
...Even former BBC director-general John Birt, No. 10’s “blue skies thinker” and Whitehall’s particular bete noire, has been seen off....
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