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La Barbe: France's bearded feminists

A group of French feminists has found a new way to fight inequality, with sarcastic humour and fake beards - only rarely is there a violent response.

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Colette Coffin unzipped her handbag and pulled out a small piece of artificial fur. "This is my speaking beard," she explains, writes the BBC's Lucy Ash.

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