ah yes that's instantly recognisable as rural France! Makes me want to go on vacation

tuff...instantly recognisable, yeah right... your just a natural gaz....
but it's very quiet, so guess you would get bored to death....suits us....
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The Bakers is the Best....

ah yes a good French boulangerie is a blessing
I definitely like the rural quiet for vacations and maybe I'd get too bored at this point in my life, but I dream of buying one of those picturesque deserted tiny French ghost villages in its entirety some day. Or just squatting it

https://www.offbeatfrance.com/abando...in-france.html

the first is tragic but all have a reason I guess..You can drive anywhere near and far and see empty properties some half fallen even.ljust left...Thinking some is so do with the dragonion laws on Wills... when your dead you don't know... but boy do some of the relatives go through hoops...some stuff still in place goes back to Napoleon Bonaparte..truly true...as for squatting no chance here be ok in the UK as squatters rights still exist...never get away with that here though....

That's interesting, and tragic, but those kind of delapidated places are also strangely beautiful to me. We actually had a discussion about it on this forum a while ago, relating to Detroit and such. Pity that they aren't easy on squatters in France.

Hey now we don't truck with Napolean bashing in these here parts.

The only thing we are upset about we brought over a Mitsubishi L200 Truck low mileage not much value in £'s but worth a great deal to us and towed a Caravan for ease of travel/zeds/grub..the standard engine size is 2.5 ours is a 2.8 and classed way back as a dirty engine so was banned here even though it is pretty clean for the year.Once they ban a vehicle is stays that way..but we had no idea when we brought it over from the UK.Grey Classified made in Thailand and not Japan...
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Ok where have I bashed him, talking outdated Wills where monies past down to family members are tax beyond affordability, so the property is left to rack and ruin.
Now take Louis the XIV dictated to his people murder the Protestants at all costs, make them outcasts send them into the desserts. Torture and Murder the men folk and rape the women or just throw them in prison with the children and let them suffer.... Many thousands fled to non catholic countries and Soho London 1700's had a population of 50% French living there...some figures for people who did not want to leave their motherland. No religion has been taught in State French Schools since the 1900's. We still have churches that are mainly beautiful and the upkeep is done on a regulatory basis,but they are used for special occasions as a norm
.My husband's family on one side are decedents of French Huguenots so know quite a fair portion of the History and I am fascinated by all that occurred mostly because of Louis XIV...Napoleon improved life for the people of his Country as a whole...
Rather long, but hey it is there if you want to trawl through sometime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon

A cross between Mario Batali and William Oldham

Yes why?