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Cemetery revisit and a great surprise
A few weeks ago I had a wander around the cemetery in my village St Frichoux. I wanted to try and find the graves (or rather tombs) of the old house owners. Some names and dates. In France they generally have these great big stone and marble graves, several metres high, sometimes very ornate, marble…
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Original House Owner – Update
Another neck-breaking session in amongst the musty old tomes at the archives in Carcassonne today. The reading room is light, airy and really modern, yet behind THAT door (where only the staff get to go!) is probably another world altogether. It’s a really marvellous place – not the sort of building you would expect to house such a huge mass…