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Ken Tatham is France's only English mayor, and Keith Bradford has performed 'Comedy of Errors' in French in the car park behind the fish market. The obligatory portrait of the French president hangs on the wall and a secretary taps idly at a computer as a coffee-machine bubbles quietly in a corner.
It could be any sleepy rural town hall in any of France's countless and
picturesque country villages. But the mayor, or rather "monsieur le maire", is
British.
"I'm Ken Tatham, welcome to Saint Ceneri," said the tall neatly bearded
Yorkshire-man.
France's western Brittany region has seen a veritable explosion of British
inhabitants over the past decade. According to a government statistics office,
around 10,000 Britons live in Brittany today compared with just over 5,000 in
1999.
Tatham however is France's only English mayor. He was first elected in 1995
and has been at the heart of political life in this tiny village of 150
inhabitants ever since.
But then Saint Ceneri is in the Orne department of northwestern France,
which Tatham estimates has between 6,000 and 7,000 British inhabitants.
There was some friction, he said, when he was first elected. "The Earl of
Arundel demolished the local castle and then 500 years later I turned up," he
joked.
Tatham has lived in Saint Ceneri for 38 years and got involved in local
politics in the early 1990s. "I could no longer vote in the UK and I couldn't
vote in France and it really bothered me," he said.
To pursue his political ambitions, Tatham applied for French nationality
which took around a year, and did not have to give up his British citizenship.
"I still feel as English as I ever. I'll never stop rooting for Leeds United," he said.
Re-elected with 80 percent of the vote in 2001, and planning to stand again
in 2008, Tatham says "one of my most memorable experiences was being
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