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How to do maternity wear like a French woman.

It’s not easy to feel stylish when you’re a completely different shape. So let’s get some style inspiration from the experts. 

Do French women do maternity style better? Bastille Day (Monday, July 14) has prompted me to think about my French sisters and particularly those who attend un bébé.

Plenty has been written about how the French women don’t get fat, raise better behaved children and in general seem to float through life looking effortlessly stylish.

However, pregnancy can be a great leveller so what do French women do when they are “ripe with child” and their belly precedes them into the café?

The answers, my friends, are right here.

CLICK THROUGH the gallery the top five tips on French-a-fy-ing your pregnancy…

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