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A primetime TV talent show each summer selects the nation’s most idyllic village. But in Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, not everyone is happy ...
Free exhibition at the National Gallery showcases the French artist's moving paintings of rural life ...
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La Vie en Commune

On the other hand, she gets at some characteristics that remain wholly valid now, 106 years later: “The instinct to preserve that which has been slow and difficult in the making, that into which the ...
How to Save Rural FranceBut rural France has been changing for years. François Purseigle, an expert in rural sociology and an agriculture professor at the National Polytechnic Institute of ...
Rural French culture shock is no myth. From Sunday-closing shops to a pace of life that’s the opposite of American go-go, getting along is more than a dictionary.
Marking the 150th. anniversary of Jean-François Millet's death the National Gallery has dedicated this free exhibition to the ...