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1303, 2024

WWII Female Agents Behind Enemy Lines – Part 1

By |Mar 13, 2024|Luscious long stories, French focus, Vie Française|0 Comments

Violette Szabo and other female agents were sent to France by F Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. F Section (French Section), part of SOE, set up as a clandestine organization “to set Europe ablaze”, as Winston Churchill once said.

803, 2024

Moving to France: a 5 suitcase adventure just two years ago

By |Mar 8, 2024|Expat experience, Vie Française|1 Comment

Moving to France: This trip was going to be interesting, a holiday & maybe a new life. It's been two years of work and living a familiar routine, the beach, beautiful home. Idyllic really but to grow you need to expand your horizons...

302, 2024

Moving to France: Lifelong Dreams & First Glimpses – Introducing La Ravanelle

By |Feb 3, 2024|Expat experience, Vie Française|5 Comments

Moving to France from Australia in your late forties, with your family, is not simple, let alone the prospect of becoming the custodians of an 18th-century bastide, the former summer home of a famous French writer. 

102, 2024

Great Women of France: 18th and 19th centuries – Part 2

By |Feb 1, 2024|French focus, Vie Française|0 Comments

The 'salons' of 17th and 18th century France are sometimes called “the cradle of the French Revolution.” Salons were discussions among a group of carefully selected nobles and intellectuals, typically organized by women called salonnières.

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