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Packed with fabulous features and fantastic photos, inspiring, entertaining and informative guides, mouth-watering recipes from top chefs, history, culture and much, much more. Discover the French Riviera in winter, effervescent Epernay, Champagne, picturesque Provence, and captivating towns and villages, hidden gems and secret France. Find out what's on, what's new and what to cook for a taste of France! Bringing France to you - wherever you are.

Western Front in 1918.

Western Front in 1918. and, in World War2, Philippe Leclerc, liberator of Paris afterserving in both North Africa and Normandy.French town planners have always loved apolitician, especially a President of one ofits five Republics. Drive down any BoulevardThiers and you are in the shadow of AdolpheThiers, first President of the Third Republicafter the 1870 defeat of Napoléon III and hisSecond Empire, an empire that was stronglyopposed by Léon Gambetta, a Republicandeputy from Cahors. You will find SadiCarnot popping up all over the place too,fourth President of the Third Republic butassassinated in 1894 by an Italian anarchist.And of course you are never far from a Placede la République!areas. But writers are held in high renown,especially if they unwittingly founded a literarymovement along the way. Take Breton-bornFrancois-René de Chateaubriand, founderof Romanticism, and Emile Zola, hailed asthe founder of Naturalism, a literary style thatdemonstrated the effects of social conditionsand environment on the human character.Local heroesVersailles, Rue de la CathedralPoliticiansPlace Gambetta, CahorsWorld War I produced many popularpoliticians including Raymond Poincaré,President from 1913 to 1920, and three timesPrime Minster. Other top ministerial men wereGeorges Clemenceau who held office from1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 to 1920,and Aristide Briand who led no fewer than11 Governments between 1909 and 1929,receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926.Avenue de la Libération, Montpellier © Kasto via CanvaRue Eduard 1er, TalmontHuman rights and libertyWith ‘Liberté, egalité, fraternité’ as its maxim,it is no surprise to find that France celebratesthese values from the smallest hamlet tothe heart of the capital. Socialist partyleader Jean Jaurès crops up everywhere,remembered for founding L’Humaniténewspaper in 1904 but sadly also for beingassassinated ten years later.Kings and queens rarely feature in a Frenchname game, but the nation’s moral principlesare drummed home in many a Boulevardde la République, Place de la Résistance,or Avenue de la Libération. Champions offree speech too. You will not travel far withoutfinding yourself on a public place dedicatedto 17 th century philosopher, writer and socialreformer Voltaire.Somewhat bizarrely for a country thattakes pride in its artistic heritage, Francededicates few streets to Monet, Cézanne ortheir contemporaries outside of their local86 | The Good Life France The Good Life France | 87