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"A letter is something you can touch, keep and read again, and put on your wall or bedside table - not like an email that's going to be deleted after a while," says Alienor Duron, who started the project 1lettre1sourire - which translates to "one letter one smile" - in France.

She makes her living as a computer programmer, but as Alienor Salton, an 11th-century Welsh woman, she helps run the Bardic Circle, a weekly singing gathering in Central Park.

On a recent morning, Alienor Bordes was struggling to remove a Velib' from one of the new docking stations.

One night while Le Gouvello was continuing the nightly tradition of grooming and cuddling Fox after dinner, he began to look concerned and anxious, and when Alienor looked closer she saw a snake between her legs – it was enjoying the warmth of the fire too.

From a young age, Alienor Le Gouvello developed a passion for travelling and adventure.