Un puits sans fond

This sign hangs outside a Chambres d’Hôte or B&B on the Ile de Ré. What I love most about this is the name:
La Maison du puits sans fond
Roughly translated, that means The House of the Bottomless Well. It sounds like a fairy story waiting to be written. Sadly, when you look up a dictionary definition, [...]

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A France-Lover’s Bookshelf – Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong

The world is certainly not short of francophiles, as can be seen by the number of books under Amazon’s FRANCE category. Quite a few of those books have made it onto my shelf at times, but none of them satisfactorily answer the question: what’s it like to date a French person? Perhaps I’ll end up [...]

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