Planatus x acerifolia
Napoleon lined the roads of France with plane trees to shade his marching troops.
Eglise Saint-Caprais de Carsac
12th century
Romanesque apse
early gothic ribbing in the nave
Our Lady of the Assumption,
destroyed by Geoffroy of Vivans in 1598 and rebuilt 30 years later with the same stones
There was a display of natty surplices.
A story best left for another time
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The French are mad for handbags
I forgot to include this from Paris, where every third store on Faubourg St Honoré
sold insanely expensive bags
They call them cepes but they're still porcinis to us
This was a tart tatin, topped with a 1/2 inch of foie gras, some parsley, and a sesame tuile
This had us stumped
on to Carcassonne
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