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I would guess "Monsieur le Maire," without Cher. and "Veuillez recevoir, Monsieur le Maire, l'assurance de mes sentiments les plus distingués". But don't take my word for it!   You might want to ask in http://forum.wordreference.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3 as there are quite a few native French speakers there who will usually give a quick answer.  I'm unsure about email-writing as opposed to letter-writing etiquette, both in French and in English!    

Here here! In fact most of will never speak a foreign language as we do English since we have come to learn too late and will be constantly translating rather than speaking and thinking totally in French. So when one learns French at school or evening classes in the UK, all the stuff about "you must think in French" which people say vaguely without explaining how to - is misguided because it implies that unless you're thinking in French you're not succeeding.. Like the other thing people say, "you only really learn a language if you go and live in the country" - which can be true but as we know, it doesn't happen without effort any more than it would if you just stayed in the UK. Oh, and "you know you've cracked it when you dream in French" - I'm not sure whether I dream in any language.. Does anyone here dream in French or English?  

[quote]Down here in the Alps,the saying is kif-kif bourrique. I think I find that rather cannier than bourricot.[/quote] kif-kif? Do you know if this is this related to the verb kiffer?! eg Je kiffe cette meuf-la?