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September 4, 2007
11:27 AM

Having agonised and worried through all the names in and out of the dictionary.
Having drifted through Les Trois Soeurs, Le Jardin des Soeurs, Le Jardin ge Cure,Les Oies Sauvages, Chez Martin, Le Cure de Soleille we have decided to go for the obvious and continue to call the house by the name by which it is known to the whole village;Le Presbytère.

The minute we mentioned to any catholic over a certain age that we had bought
Le Presbytère they got all dewy eyed and said that that was where they had to go for Catechism classes, (catholicism not being recognised as a state religion in France, and taught in schools as it is in Ireland) as a result everyone in the village knows where we are.
The obvious proximity of presbytery to church means that even strangers with a small amount of initiative could follow their noses to the house, the church, as is common in France, being in the dead centre of the village, on top of the Pech or hill on which it was built, is the tallest building and can be seen from all sides.

Our house is the one dominated, in the summer, by the huge tree, just underneath the church and in the centre of the picture.

So thats it, from now on we shall be known as;

Le Presbytère
Chambre et Table d’Hôte
14, Rue René Lenthéric
34490 Thézan-lès-Béziers
Hérault
France.

Wow! It makes me feel like we are getting somewhere.

Comments

  1. Deirdre

    on September 4, 2007

    A fine idea. It is what we’ve been calling it all along. Well done!

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