MORE PHOTOS WHERE MY FRIEND LIVED IN FRANCE...

This sign indicates the city is a tourist city.

A while back I mentioned one of my close doll making friends, Denise Cangelosi had passed away in August 2011.  I was trying to find the photos of the village she lived in and finally found them. This is in honor of Denise and her love of handmade things and the simple life.

This is the village square where they have a farmers' market every Friday, and a festival once a year; there is a beauty parlour, two banks, a post office, two bakers, an English thrift shop, a superette, a tiny library, a couple of estate agents, and the lake has campside facilities.

Here is a lovely flower filled planter in the village square.

Usually the wood on buildings are painted aqua but this one is painted red and white.

Here is a cafe/bar where you can sit and gossip to your heart's content and sip your coffee in the wonderful French village.

A pastry shop has many delectible items to choose from.

Here is a street on one side of the village square which leads to a bourgeois house, which is almost a castle.

The roof on this house has an area that dips which looks like a 'cat slide'.

This is another view of the 'castle'

This is the door to the castle.

This is the lake in the village of Jugon where Denise lived.

A view of the stream that flows through the village.

A door of a house that faces the stream.

A lovely hotel to sit and drink something cool and eat a nice lunch.

The steps where Napoleon the III spoke to his people, being the nephew of Napoleon the I; and Charles de Gaulle also addressed his people some two hundred years later.

Here is the plaque memorializing Napoleon the III and Charles de Gaulle.

An interesting view of the steam that flows behind the houses where laundresses used to wash clothes.

And the sign that points to the village square and the other side that points to the next village...I hope you have enjoyed your armchair tour of Denise's sweet village.