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L’acteur Gérard Depardieu, l’un des mieux payés du cinéma français, a choisi d’élire domicile en Belgique, dans un village proche de la frontière française connu pour abriter de riches expatriés qui souhaitent protéger leur patrimoine de la fiscalité française.
Translation/traduction by/par Bill Nelson
One of the best paid French film actors, Gerard Depardieu, has moved to a village just inside the Belgian border thereby changing his domicile. This allows him to protect his wealth in a shelter against French tax. This is common practice for wealthy French nationals who have so many borders (Belgium, Spain, Italy, Luxembourge and of course Switzerland.) to avail of. Effectively allowing people to live several hundred metres from their home country and avoid paying high French taxes. Even companies situated in France, close to the border, take on ex-pat employees, pay them in their own country and adopt the working laws of that country. Which in many cases are more flexible than in France. (Holidays, illness days, working week, and retirement age).
About bill
Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer.
The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013.
Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI.
Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug
2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website.
But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien.
The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50.
Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea.
Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
