Le Beau de Provence
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Le Beau de Provence

The town of Les Baux-de-Provence is perched on a cliff (baus means...
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Medieval castles and churches of Paris
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Medieval castles and churches of Paris

Paris is more than twenty centuries old. And for the last seventeen...
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Amiens is Jules Verne’s city
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Amiens is Jules Verne’s city

The year 2005 was a date celebrated by the literary and reading...
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Corbusier and the Art Nouveau style
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Corbusier and the Art Nouveau style

Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris) – French architect of Swiss origin, one...
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Between Nice and Monaco
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  • Monaco
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Between Nice and Monaco

SAINT-JEAN-CAP-FERRA. From the late 19th century to the present day, the peninsula...
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Between Nice and Cannes
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Between Nice and Cannes

ANTIBE. The ancient town of Antibes, halfway between Nice and Cannes, is...
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Ocean coasts
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  • Saint Malo

Ocean coasts

Bretagne… Rocky shores covered with heather, shivering under the pressure of ocean...
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Cognac
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  • Charente
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Cognac

In the South-West of France, not far from the city of Bordeaux,...
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Chocolate Paris
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Chocolate Paris

The Mayan tribe called chocolate “xocoatl”. This is probably where the modern...
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Paris of “The Three Musketeers”
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Paris of “The Three Musketeers”

As is well known, Dumas “borrowed” from the Lyon Library the diaries...
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye

In 1238, there was already a medieval fortress on this site, inside...
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Hemingway’s Paris
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Hemingway’s Paris

Once his black-and-white portrait hung in every intellectual “Khrushchevka” apartment. A sweater,...
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Biarritz
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  • Occitania

Biarritz

150 years ago, this fashionable resort was not much different from other...
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Gascony
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  • Bordeaux
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Gascony

At the mere mention of Gascony, the image of D’Artagnan appears before...
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Castles and Abbeys
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Castles and Abbeys

An incredibly beautiful medieval hilltop town with 13th to 15th century fortifications...
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Artistic Montparnasse
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Artistic Montparnasse

The history of Mount Parnassus (which is what the word “Montparnasse” literally...
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Orange
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Orange

Orange is a town in France, in the Vaucluse department, on the...
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Cannes
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  • Provence-Alpes-Azur coast

Cannes

This is the elegant and colorful La Croisette, the Star Alley, the...
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Annecy – Alpine Venice
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  • France

Annecy – Alpine Venice

Annecy is a city where there is no bad mood, a city...
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Zoos and aquariums
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Zoos and aquariums

Paris has two zoos and two aquariums. The old cage zoo is...
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