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ALICE QUILLET AND Anselme Blayney were married on July 25th at the church in Cabanes in Aveyron, southwest France. Latin, English and French were represented in song and prayer during the blessing, conducted by Fr Didier Granjou.

Alice was born in Paris, and is the daughter of Lindi and Denis Quillet. From the age of two until she left home to go to university, she lived in Montreal and Toronto in Canada, Paris again, London and Hong Kong. In 1998, she moved to Dublin to attend Trinity College, studying English and philosophy. She graduated in 2002. She then went to work in the Rose Bakery, a British organic restaurant in Paris, and learned to cook professionally. In April 2005, she started working for the International Herald Tribuneand moved to New York in 2007 and began working for the magazine Monocle as a writer and researcher.