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Provence, the First Wine Region of France

Wine has been made in Provence for a very long time. Grapevines were first planted in 600 B.C. by the Greeks who founded the city …

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Edmond Locard, The Sherlock Holmes of France

With his silhouette of full-bent meerschaum pipe and deerstalker cap, Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognized figures in popular culture. He has probably …

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French artist Émile Friant

Émile Friant is a French artist whose name is little known today. Yet he was a painter of immense and widely acclaimed talent in his …

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Visit to France for a wheelchair user

Julia Wingfield finds France may not be 100% perfect for wheelchair users, but its friendly folk make up for it … I wasn’t always a …

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The business of religion in France

Business seems to be booming for the abbeys and monasteries in France. Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic and an economic crisis don’t appear to have slowed …

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Tips for Vegetarians in France

One of the best vegetarian meals I have ever had was on a mini-break in France, my native country. It was in Carteret, a small …

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Hemingway’s Garden of Eden: The French Riviera

“Imagination is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine” – …

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The art of Eugène Carrière

The French artist, Eugène Carrière, was a remarkable painter who worked almost exclusively in a colour palette of browns and deep yellows, using quick, semi-dry …

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How to be French Part 1

Many people will say well you’re French if you’re born French – but is it really as simple as that? And what makes French people …

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Je ne regrette rien moving to France

In February 2004, on a cold and sleety February morning, I boarded a ferry at Dover and watched the famous White Cliffs fade as I …

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