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Chambord, the Loire Valley’s XXL Château, Gets a Tourist Makeover

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When you can't get any bigger, you just have to get better. Chambord, the massive chateau in the Loire Valley, 9 miles east of Blois, is in the midst of a major development plan (€4.5 million invested in 2014) to make the castle more user-friendly and, ultimately, self-financing.

What if Jack LaLanne’s parents had stayed in France?

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The way Jack LaLanne talked about health and fitness on TV reminds me the way that some farmers and organic wine producers in France talk about their products. I wonder: if Jack LaLanne's parent had never emigrated from Oloron Sainte Marie in the Atlantic Pyrenees region of southwest France he might have become famous for producing organic goat cheese... and maybe lived longer.
Jerome Spruytte, producer of Pont l'Eveque fermier cheese in Saint Philbert des Champs

Cheese: Jérôme Spruytte’s Pont l’Evêque Fermier (Pays d’Auge, Normandy)

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Veering off onto the country roads of the Pays d'Auge area of Normandy, let's meet Jérôme Spuytte, one of the few remaining producers of Pont l’Evêque fermier, a farm-made raw-milk cheese.

Festivals in France, the 2017 Summer Selection

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Hundreds of festivals, large and small, come to life each summer in France, bringing music, theater, dance and fireworks to village squares, historical monuments, town centers and their surroundings. To help with the planning and to whet your appetite for the summer festival season, Corinne LaBalme has selected for France Revisited some of the best and brightest events of the season.
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Where and Why to Visit the American WWI Sights of France

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A France Revisited “Conversation with an Expert” in which Gary Lee Kraut speaks with Ben Brands, the historian with the American Battle Monuments Commission about the U.S. First World War sights of France.
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Congénies Quaker House: Peace, Friends and Dogs

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Photos by David Kashoff of the Quaker House and village of Congénies, France, located between Nimes and Montpellier in the Languedoc region.

A cheese picnic near Utah Beach

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What's the best way to get to known four famous Norman cheeses—Camembert de Normandie, Livarot, Neufchatel, and Pont-l’Eveque? A cheese picnic. And if you're in...

Avignon: Practical information and Choice Accommodations

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Approached from its surrounding boulevards, the 14th-century walls of the inner town of Avignon look low enough to climb over with a step ladder....

Chambery: Civic Pride and the Four Assless Elephants

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Chambery, a city of 58,000 at the base of the Alps, aspires to “the sweetness of life in a pleasant and secure society” as it honors its art, its history and its elephants.

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