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A Frenchman sworn in at Holyrood Christian Allard

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A Frenchman sworn in at Holyrood

Twenty years ago, Christian Allard came to Aberdeen without speaking a word of English, now, with two children and three grand children, all of them Scottish, he has become the first Frenchman to be elected to the Scottish Parliament.

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