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Showing posts with label rural France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rural France. Show all posts
Friday, August 5, 2016

French villages disappearing

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The French word “désertification” designates the process that leads to villages abandoned by their former residents, who have deserted their...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Nudes

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For as long as I've known Christine , I've associated this famous photo, entitled Provençal nude , taken by Willy Ronis in 1949, wi...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Rural roots

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Once, when I was chatting about family-history research with my father-in-law Jacques Mafart , he told me that such investigations would ine...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Deadly level crossings

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Yesterday, for the second time in a week, I caught the inter-city train from St-Marcellin to Grenoble in order to spend time exploring the a...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008

Charming little town called Chatte

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My favorite Leclerc shopping center is located on the municipal territory of a tiny town called Chatte (meaning a female cat in French), a...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

Fair at Beaucroissant

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I spent the afternoon with Linda (a local nurse who has become a personal friend) at the Beaucroissant Fair , in a rural setting to the nor...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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