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A little French, a little English (The Charlotte Observer) |
Nerville Labadie, 42, owns a taxi and auto-rental business on St. Lucia. He lives in the town of Vieux Fort and is a native of that island nation in the eastern Caribbean. Q. St. Lucia is English-speaking, but people there have French surnames and live in towns that have French names. What gives? The island changed hands 14 times between England and France over the centuries. It has been …
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