11th February 2014
Paris, France
!["Transforming cities, transforming lives" logo - Event at the Residence, 13 February 2014](https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/1689183_773926019302072_972-310x267.jpg)
We are now in the Bicentenary year for the Residence – 200 years ago, the Duke of Wellington bought this house from Pauline, the sister of Napoléon. To celebrate that, we are running a series of events through the year, highlighting both the past and the future of UK-French relations.
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20th January 2014
Paris, France
![Pamela Deegan, Vice-Consul in the Consular Services of the British Embassy in Paris.](https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/Pamela-Deegan-280x267.jpg)
I was extremely pleased and very proud to receive a New Year’s Honour for my contribution to consular services in France, a career which spans over more than 25 years! I didn’t know anything about the nomination until a few weeks before the official publication so it also came as a huge surprise.
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20th January 2014
Paris, France
![The British Ambassador's Residence in Paris](https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/Residence460-460x267.jpg)
A very Happy New Year to everyone, and I wish you the best of good fortune in 2014. This is going to be a year of commemorations: we shall have the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Channel tunnel by President Mitterrand and Her Majesty the Queen ; the 70th anniversary of D-Day, with […]
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