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TO PARIS WITH LOVE

One of Jules François’ earliest memories is of arriving in Sydney as the eldest of six children of a migrant family and living with her maternal grandparents. While most of the family was Scottish, her grandfather was from Brittany and he introduced a French sensibility to the mix. “As well as me and my siblings there were nine adults in this household and they were all obsessed with food and music,” she recalls. “While they all influenced my upbringing, unquestionably the most

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