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| Fashionable pedestrian street in Fort Du France, French territory, Martinique. |
A quarter mile from shore, we saw silver, glinting. I could’ve sworn it was a metallic Statue of Liberty. But we were in the French territory of Martinique, its capital city, the very European Fort Du France.
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| It was a Statue of Liberty! For a Fort Du France clothing store façade. |
In a past life, I was the North American representative for a Hewlett-Packard-based division in San Diego. It’s hardly the place I’d look to for international fashion cache…. for couture-crazy trendsetting Francophiles!
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| New York, Hollywood, San Francisco maybe, but… San Diego for a fashion clothing store in Fort Du France? |
Surely, the Caribbean French must be possessed by some kind of identity crises!
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| There is no doubt a different French meaning for the word tampon other than an internally placed feminine hygiene product |
