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France, officially the French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic located mostly in Western Europe, with several overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. From its shape, it is often referred to in French as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon").

France is the largest country in Western Europe and the third-largest in Europe as a whole. It possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military, and political influence in Europe and around the world. France has its main ideals expressed in the 18th-century Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. From the 17th to the early 20th century, France built the second-largest colonial empire of the time, ruling large portions of first North America and India and then Northwest and Central Africa; Madagascar; Indochina and southeast China; and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.

In 2010, Claire Peacock made plans to move to France for a new life at the suggestion of her mother Yvonne Casey. However her husband Ashley wasn't too keen and went as far as to fake an angina attack to delay the move, although in the end he came round. In December that year however, tragedy struck when Ashley was killed when an explosion inside The Joinery caused a tram to derail and caused severe structural damage. Claire decided to remain in Weatherfield as Ashley's memory was still there, but after inadvertently injuring Tracy Barlow to the extent that she was rendered unconscious, Claire decided that it would be better leave rather than be formally charged with assault. In the New Year, with the help of friends and neighbours, she was able to evade the police and left with children Joshua and Freddie.

In July 2018, Eva Price left Weatherfield for France with daughter Susie after ex-fiancé Aidan Connor took his own life.

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