Upon marriage I chose not to take my husband’s name. In 2001 I applied to enter the health system via CPAM. After many documents being submitted I finally ended up with 2 Carte Vitales, one in my married name and the other in my maiden name. My doctor told me to use the married name one as my husband was also registered with this doctor. So now anything medical is under my married name and everything else is under my maiden name. It does get a bit confusing at times!
His initials aren’t JR by any chance? 
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Which I really don’t mind as I only have/use my maiden name. But it does get me when officials want me to have a married name too…and seem to be a bit baffled sometimes that I don’t have one.
Beware of making assumptions.I don’t have a problem with the use of the maiden name, I approve and am aware that it is common in the mediterranean countries. Changing the name is a throwback to women being the chattel, or property, of a man (being “given” from one man to another at a wedding) which is only about 150 years in UK. However, from what I read, women under the Napoleonic Code were even less highly regarded until nearly this century!
What assumptions am I making? I don’t think there is any value judgment in what I wrote. That foreigners sometimes find it hard to understand how we do things? That is just a statement of fact.
For our nationality application I found a native French translator for our various certificates. He wrote them out by hand and I gave those to the préfecture and kept photocopies for myself. Trouble was that the originals looked just like a photocopy and the préfecture rejected them, demanding originals. I got the translator to do it all again, in blue ink this time, and to our relief they were accepted, although they could still have been photocopies. The translator thought it was ridiculous, sent us his best wishes and generously apologised on behalf of French bureaucracy.
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If you come up against someone who actively doesn’t want to be helpful in an office there is so little you can do, wherever you are. I found the world champions of obstructive bureaucracy were the officials in the mugamma in Cairo, absolute nightmare dealing with them.
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you seemed to assume that I would be surprised at the use of the maiden name.by/for women. To be frank it came accross as a little patronising.
No offence taken, let’s leave it there.
I had to look it up. It sounds forbidding and worryingly unavoidable.
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The Christmas after the ad came out (or maybe the one after that) some bright spark published the book. My wife got it for me for Christmas, I still have it somewhere.
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Yep you are right…but being a French lady pray explain why France with its much vaunted health care system is getting it so wrong ref the vaccine programme…8,500 yesterday…but it was a Sunday after all !
How do the French public expect to get out of this mess, …or do they think it will just die out!
Perhaps you want to comment on the slow vaccine roll out thread
I have! 
For what it’s worth I think it is multifactorial and that among other things Veran & co. are banking on figures here being less bad than in eg the UK, allowing them to roll out vaccination more slowly. Otherwise no idea why they are taking so long about it. Seeing how many pharmacies even the tiniest bled has you’d think they’d get a good throughput going even without sending people off to clutter up hospitals. My GP is on holiday at the mo so presumably the situation isn’t that urgent in my neck of the woods.
Here they are not cluttering up hospitals, but using closed entertainment facilities… I don’t think pharmacies will be authorised until more sure about initial anaphylactoid reactions. Shame, as so much easier for people.
I think the extreme cold chain requirement for the vaccine is one reason why pharmacies and doctors’ surgeries aren’t receiving it. My bet is that they are counting on the slightly easier Moderna vaccine to come in the first quarter and the Astra Zeneca one (if authorised by the EMA) which is very easy to handle and store.
My rdv is at my doctor’s surgery! The main centre is in the big town 50km away, but they are then sending out small quantities to surrounding small towns. Oh and the Moderna vaccine is being used in eastern France from today…
Pharmacies are as yet not trained and equipped, but maybe one day.
Oh come on John, you seem to be leading a one-man campaign against France’s vaccine programme, I suggest you look at the overall picture, which was posted on the topic covering this. the UK was the worst country overall and France one of the best (number of deaths per xxxx numer of people). The programme is getting up and running but even if it’s slow I’d far rather be here in France (where I know many, many people now who have had covid and come through just the same as bad flu and others that have it as now and are in bed waiting for it to pass) than in the UK. And the whole border thing and not being able to go abroad doesn’t affect 99% of the French population (although perhaps that’s why there’s so much annoyance on sfn by people sho regularly hop between France and the UK). One last thought, the average French person doesn’t really know what is going on in the UK or with the vaccine programme there or anywhere else for that matter, I still have people coming into the shop without a mask or not respecting distancing or numer limits! 
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Not a one man campaign and here in France I think the Gov’ got it right during the growth by locking down without vaciliation unlike the UK, hence France has had a better experience ( if it can be described as such.) It is generally accepted that the way out of this pandemic to return life and business to some degree of normality is mass vaccination so I just can’t understand why France isn’t pursuing it with the same urgency as the UK…even fellow EU states are significantly ahead !
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Do you listen to French radio and read French news? The approach and response to the approach becomes more logical.
The other thing that I personally appreciate a lot is that France has balanced rolling out the vaccine with keeping other services going. In the UK maybe you can get a vaccine, but getting other health services are near impossible. Throughout this I have had access to my doctors and soecialist nearly as normal - my friends and family in the UK are reporting a nightmare! Can’t even see a GP.
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Just spoken to a mate (local infirmier) : vaccination starts this afternoon here in Carmaux for the over 75s. We’ll get there, hare and tortoise
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