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The Good Life France Magazine brings you the best of France - inspirational and exclusive features, fabulous photos, mouth-watering recipes, tips, guides, ideas and much more...


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Brimming with brilliant features and beautiful photos - bursting with inspiring, entertaining and informative guides from sun-kissed, pickled-in-the-past villages and dazzling historic cities, and through French history, heritage and culture from iconic cakes to the most spectacular chateaux. Discover Paris, Provence, Normandy, and lesser known treasures in Burgundy, southern France, the Loire Valley, and many more dazzling destinations. Plus mouth-watering recipes, history, culture, heritage and much, much more. Bringing France to you - wherever you are.

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fortresses included comfortable apartments for the lord and lady of the manor. Discover the daily life of the Dukes of Normandy at Falaise Castle, birthplace of William 1 of England, through computer-generated images and films. Nor did you have to be a duke to be comfortable. The 14 th century Donjon de Bours in Pas de Calais is a sandstone tower house with six turrets fringed by the remains of the original moat. A rare example of a knight’s residence, the interior display shows daily life during the Hundred Years War between England and France. Living it up by the Loire Vaux-le-Vicomte, the largest privately owned château in France Royal Château of Blois © Gillian Thornton GRACIOUS Living From elegant town houses to lavishly decorated Châteaux, France boasts luxury properties in all shapes and sizes. The aristocratic residences around Paris and the Loire Valley are internationally famous, but high-end houses pop up all over the country. Romans and Medieval Luxury living did not start with the Renaissance. In the golden age of the Roman Empire, well-to-do citizens lived in sprawling villas with intricate mosaic floors and interior courtyards. Imagine their lifestyle through artefacts and reconstructions at NarboVia museum in Narbonne in Occitanie; amongst the Roman remains at Vaison La Romaine in Provence; and at the museum and archeological site of Saint-Romain-en-Gal in the Rhône Valley. When the Romans left, standards slipped a bit, but by the Middle Ages, many French Donjon de Bours © Gillian Thornton But the big surge in grand residences began in the late 15 th century with the start of the French Renaissance, inspired by the art and culture movement in Italy. French kings began to build royal palaces in the Loire Valley, preferring to spend their time in the clean air and countryside rather than in Paris. And where royalty went, so the aristocracy followed, building sumptuous properties of their own. Favourite residence of seven kings and ten queens, the Royal Château at Blois is the perfect introduction to the French monarchs and their lifestyle with its four wings from different periods. Experience the interior styles 24 | The Good Life France The Good Life France | 25

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