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An idyllic cookery school and kitchen garden retreat in rural France

The Cook's Atelier in Beaune, France, is a cookery school with a hearty helping of soul in the form of its potager garden ...

George and Amal Clooney awarded French citizenship as family deepens roots in rural southern France

The Clooney family has been granted French citizenship, solidifying their move from Hollywood to a quieter life in France.
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I left London for rural France – here’s how to find happiness outside Britain

Four years ago, I moved to Languedoc, South West France, almost on a whim, because I fell in love with a crumbling old house on a pretty port in the village where my husband and I used to go on ...
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Catholic Rural Life marks a century and plans to sow seeds for another 100 years

April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski's worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex ...