- Paperback: 205 pages
- Publisher: Leonie Press (7 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1901253325
- ISBN-13: 978-1901253320
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,420,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Valerie Thompson's book is not just about buying and restoring an old house in the hidden triangle of the beautiful unspoilt Correze department of the Limousin, but also about daily life there. It includes memoirs, observations, nature, history, legends, cookery, the arts - a veritable pot-pourri of many of the things which fascinate this artist and musician. VALERIE Thompson's early trips to France were with her parents in the 1950s. In the days before package holidays they travelled annually to the Cote d'Azur, the Italian Riviera and the Adriatic coast, staying in cramped wooden cabins on camp sites. For the first Channel crossing their junk-filled Ford Prefect was slung onto the ferry in a net and for the second it travelled in the belly of a small plane which took off from Lydd airport in Kent. Valerie was responsible for map-reading and packing the vehicle - skills which were to come in handy in later years. In the 1980s - now an artist, musician and interior designer - and fed up with rainy painting holidays in Wales, she decided to drive herself to France where she rented a tiny cottage for a week. Enchanted by the experience, she started to think how nice it would be to have a real French 'home-from-home' and over the next few months persuaded her husband to let her buy a French cottage...The following year she found a solid stone house in the Correze departement of the Limousin that 'spoke to her'. She called it 'La Folie Verte' - a pun on 'folly' and 'folie' which in 18th century French meant 'a country house for recreation'. Valerie Thompson's book is not just about buying and restoring an old house in the hidden triangle of this beautiful unspoilt region, but also about daily life there. It includes memoirs, observations, nature, history, legends, cookery, the arts - a veritable pot-pourri of many of the things which fascinate her.
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