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July 2006 - Marquis de Sade lies low in the Southern Luberon
From a distance, the Luberon village of Lacoste looks innocent enough, a verdant hill interrupted by lines of red-roofed houses, nestling beneath a ruined castle.
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May 2006 - The Sarthe - Tranquil waters with a turbulent past
The Sarthe spawned the Plantagenets, one of the great dynasties of English kings, Richard the Lionheart among their number. Richard's widow Bérengère founded the Abbaye de L'Epau near Le Mans, extensively restored, one of the many delightful and tranquil settings in this rural landscape.
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March 2006 - Prehistoric Dordogne
The discovery of prehistoric drawings in a cave near Vilhonneur in the Charente last December dating back perhaps 25,000 years has renewed interest in the famous Lascaux paintings in the Dordogne.
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January 2006 - Focus on Saint-Girons
The Pays du Couserans still has fewer
inhabitants than the rest of south-west
France: the ground is hard and over the
centuries, life even harder. Its villages were once famous for their bear-trainers, who, driven by hunger and poverty, toured the lowland towns with their performing beasts.
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November 2005 - Focus on Sarlat - French paradise & instant film set
It is the roofs that first catch the eye: made of ancient Sarlat stones, so
heavy that roofers must have cursed
them as they struggled to finish the
job in wind and sun and rain. But how
proud they would be today to see the
fruits of their labours still in place,
nigh on 1,000 years later, reflecting a
golden light over this medieval city.
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