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Aude Holiday Home for Sale Situated in the centre of Corbieres wine growing- Boutenac. This edge of village, stand alone cottage actually backs onto the walls of the Chateau. Two double bedrooms, modern kitchen, living room with wood burning open fire, shower, dressing room, garage, washing machine, terrace.Attendant one bedroomed flat with kitchen/dinner and shower room.Includes a mature Muscat vine growing over the door-delicious in September. Freshly redecorated and furnished. The ideal base to explore the vineyards and hills of the Corbieres, situated close to the market town of Lezignan and 25 minutes drive from the Med. |
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and Languedoc Guest Columnists Carcassonne Medieval Magnificence by Jeremy Josephs Perched high on a rocky outcrop, the medieval fortified city of Carcassonne has been of strategic importance since Roman times. The largest walled city in Europe, Carcassonne's impressively silhouette dominates the route between Toulouse and the Mediterranean.Read More Lagrasse-Caveat venditor by Simon Pleasance "I cannot avoid the conviction that no innate tendency to progressive development exists" Charles Darwin, 1872 The horse-borne traveller coming upon Lagrasse, a century ago, would halt astride the abrupt and draughty promontory called the Bouche au Cers , bulwark against tantrum gales. Read More History of the Canal du Midi by Jeremy Jospehs |
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Roussillon Goes Left 30th
March 2004 Jacques Blanc, ex Secretary of State for Agriculture under Valery d'Estang, shared the fate of his mentor and was voted out after 18 years of running the Languedoc Roussillon Region. Blanc's list, Union pour Languedoc Roussillon, crashed to 33.1% of the vote in the second round in the Languedoc after he failed to win the support of the Languedoc hunters, CPTN, and the centrist UDF. George Freche, the long time mayor of Montpellier, with his Union Toute! list of Socialists, Communists and Greens rose to a surprising 51.7% on an increased turn out throughout the Languedoc. The Front National, headed in the Languedoc by LePen's old school friend Alain Jamet, scored 15.72%, a much reduced score from April 2002 Presidentials. In a system that favours the winning list Freche now heads a left wing team of 43, Blanc a rump of 16 and Jamet a mere 8. Read More |
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poorest and most sought after Region in France 8th
February 2004 The projections are dramatic, by 2015 between 170,000 and 310,000 people will migrate to Languedoc-Roussillon looking for a warmer climate and a better quality of life. The question is will they find it? Recently Air Litoral and Dell in the Herault, Saligne and Formica in the Aude, and Perrier and Well in the Gard have all laid off staff or announced they will in the near future. Irrifrance and Compangnie du Bas-Rhone Languedoc are in grave financial difficulties as are Tuvodoc in the high Herault and Cogema in the Lodeve. In fact there are now only 8 private companies with more than 500 employees in the whole region. While Languedoc has the best start-up rate of new businesses in the country we are at the bottom of the table for their survival, only 41% last more than 5 years. Read More |
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