Couverture Bussard
Couverture, the French word for "cover", may refer to: * Couverture chocolate, a high-quality grade of chocolate * Couverture maladie universelle, a French public health programme * Coverture Coverture (sometimes spelled couverture) was a legal doctrine in the English common law in which a married woman's legal existence was considered to be merged with that of her husband, so that she had no independent legal existence of her own. U ...

Couverture Chocolate
Couverture chocolate is a chocolate that contains a higher percentage of cocoa butter (32–39%) than baking or eating chocolate. This additional cocoa butter, combined with proper tempering, gives the chocolate more sheen, a firmer "snap" when broken, and a creamy mellow flavor. Definition and term The total "percentage" cited on many brands of chocolate is based on some combination of cocoa butter in relation to cocoa solids (cacao). In order to be properly labeled as "couverture", the dark chocolate product must contain not less than 35% total dry cocoa solids, including not less than 31% cocoa butter and not less than 2.5% of dry non-fat cocoa solids, milk chocolate couverture must contain not less than 25% dry cocoa solids. Couverture is used by professionals for dipping, coating, molding and garnishing. The term "couverture chocolate" is distinct from compound chocolate. Products that contain compound chocolate have a lower percentage of solids and contain non-cocoa fat ...
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Couverture Maladie Universelle
The French Universal Health Coverage (French: ''Couverture maladie universelle'', abbreviated as "CMU") is the French social security program concerning health care, which was implemented in January 2000 (''loi no 99-641 du 27 juillet 1999''). It was drafted by Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's leftist government in 1999, on the initiative of Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Martine Aubry. In compliance with this program, medical expenses are reimbursed to all people who have been legally residing in France for over 3 months, whereas illegal aliens are entitled to State medical aid (''aide médicale d'État'', abbreviated as "AME"). An investigation completed in 2006 by non-governmental organization Médecins du Monde ''Médecins du monde'' (MdM; ), or Doctors of the World, is an international humanitarian organization which provides emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people. It also advocates to end health inequities. It was f ... showed ...
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