France in Between

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A personal yet informative take on France's small to middling towns -- the scenic, the offbeat, and the nitty-gritty.

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About Betty Carlson

A French-American dual national, I've lived in the enchanted Aveyron department in Occitanie for nearly 30 years. "France in Between" is my ode to small-to-middling French towns.

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