France
- Alsace-Lorraine and the Northeast (2)
- Bordeaux and the Southwest (18)
- Brittany and Normandy (18)
- Burgundy and Champagne (15)
- Ile-de-France and Paris (143)
- Languedoc-Roussillon and the Pyrenees (12)
- Loire Valley (3)
- Provence (46)
- The Alps (12)
- The Côte d'Azur (43)
- The Massif Central (10)
- The Rhone Valley and Lyon (4)
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”While the urban fashion for so-called “microhotels” has been around a while—the category was born in 2003, when Carla Sozzani...” MORE>> |
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”Ten rooms in a converted abbey with private grounds surrounded by Côte d'Or vineyards and stately barge canals....” MORE>> |
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”The island’s 30-room, 11th-century...” MORE>> |
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”The narrative will be consulted by everyone from architects to interior designers to staffing personnel in the development of Arc...” MORE>> |
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”Auberge de Cantobre has two three-bedroom houses, both dating from the 18th century....” MORE>> |
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”And though the roulottes at the hotel-restaurant La Fenière, in the Luberon mountains, are new, they follow traditional designs and...” MORE>> |
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”Grace Leo-Andrieu lives just outside Paris, where her company manages Bel-Ami....” MORE>> |
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”Four spacious, well-priced, serenely stylish guest rooms are the greatest lodging secret in the region....” MORE>> |
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”The 12-tent property, on the edge of the Ardèche gorge in Labastide-de-Virac, France, was inspired by Edwardian-era safari camps (doubles...” MORE>> |
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”The 60 rooms, done alternately in standard Louis XIV and XVI, won’t be making the style news anytime soon, but...” MORE>> |
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”Three luminous guest rooms have works of art left behind by painters and sculptors who have stayed in them...” MORE>> |
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”I was on what should have been a boilerplate mission, to briefly meet Painvin and languorously test-drive her new inn...” MORE>> |
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”When the French talk about the sea, it’s usually as a melodramatic need...” MORE>> |
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”A short drive from Esparron, this imposing château offers three antiques-filled guest rooms steeped in history....” MORE>> |
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”At the Château de Bagnols, an estate in the green hills of Beaujolais, weddings begin with a rehearsal dinner for...” MORE>> |
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”Virginie and Daniel Boulenger ditched their careers as auto-parts engineers (well, somebody has to do that job) to open a...” MORE>> |
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”Cliffside complex of historic stone buildings, in the medieval village of Èze....” MORE>> |
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”The château's 16 rooms are elegantly furnished, with jewel-toned brocades. Ours, named Henri IV, had an antique four-poster and looked...” MORE>> |
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”Looking for a place to get away from it all, French country-style? Château de l'Isle-Marie in Normandy has what you...” MORE>> |
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”Château de Montgouverne near Vourvray in the Loire comes complete with pointy turrets—and surprisingly fresh style....” MORE>> |
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”16th-century château and 15-acre garden, between Tours and Amboise. ...” MORE>> |
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”You liked it that much? friends ask. No, I liked it more. The six guest rooms have everything going for...” MORE>> |
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”Maison d'hôte owners like Bernard and Charlotte Anne de Castellane are the last of their kind. To them, 'French country'...” MORE>> |
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”The new owners of this formerly run-down castle are making it the most stylish hotel in the region....” MORE>> |
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”A 12th-century château outside Uzès....” MORE>> |
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”This 16th-century granite hotel in Brittany may not be for lovers only, but it certainly is tailored to them. Service...” MORE>> |
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”Each of the 18 luxurious guest rooms (the first of which will be completed this fall) has been named and...” MORE>> |
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”Elegant 400-year-old château (former residence of Prince William of Sweden) built into the medieval walls of Èze....” MORE>> |
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”Turn-of-the-20th-century château on a private 17-acre park, in the heart of the Champagne region....” MORE>> |
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”'The Château Virant is 25 miles from Aix-en-Provence and is the only property in France to produce both oil and...” MORE>> |
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”Chef Wout Bru lets four chambres d'amis, done in a soft, contemporary idiom, above his one-star restaurant...” MORE>> |
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”4 historic buildings, dating from the 14th, 16th, and 18th centuries, in a UNESCO World Heritage Site in old Lyons....” MORE>> |
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”Domaine des Andéols—a rural hotel coaxed out of a hamlet of farmhouses in the Lubéron—is reinventing the south of France...” MORE>> |
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”Ivy-covered 19th-century former hunting manor in a 185-acre wooded park, between Blois and Amboise....” MORE>> |
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”It helped that our hotel, the Esprit St.-Germain, was on Rue St.-Sulpice—yards from Le Comptoir du Relais (our favorite bistro)...” MORE>> |
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”Deep in the Latin Quarter, not far from the busy Rue Mouffetard, lies the futuristic new Five Hotel. Here, the...” MORE>> |
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”Ornate 1928 landmark with superb service and amenities (top-notch spa and gym; Michelin 3-starred restaurant)....” MORE>> |
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”In the hills of southern France, the 115-suite Four Seasons Resort Provence at Terre Blanche is the company's first European...” MORE>> |
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”New touches include a sleek lobby and bar (low cocoa-colored suede sofas, walls covered in graphic floral images), rooms in...” MORE>> |
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”Proust stayed in room 414 of this Belle Époque building. Rooms on the north side face the sea....” MORE>> |
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”White Belle Époque palace, set on 17 acres of gardens and forest....” MORE>> |
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”Designed by Jean Nouvel in 1989, the 18-room Hauterive Saint-James has steel-grid wall panels and a Michelin-starred restaurant....” MORE>> |
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”At Michelin-starred chef Arnaud Daguin's Hegia inn, ancient wooden beams and timbers have been lovingly restored without losing their rough-hewn...” MORE>> |
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”The Hi was designed by Matali Crasset, one of his protégées. Situated in a posh residential neighborhood just back from...” MORE>> |
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”Gourmet Escapade package from the Hospes Lancaster. What’s Included One night in a double room; lunch for two at La...” MORE>> |
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”Seven restored stone houses linked by cobblestoned alleys and gardens, in a village 30 minutes from Avignon....” MORE>> |
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”An affordable cornerstone......” MORE>> |
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”For years, this 39-room hotel had little in common with the cutting-edge galleries and funky bars around it. The charming...” MORE>> |
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”Stay at Hôtel Beaucour, an 18th-century house with exposed beams and Internet access—the perfect place to collapse after a meal...” MORE>> |
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”For buff couples in Pucci crushers trailed by kids in real, not counterfeit, Burberry T-shirts, the hotel's most compelling feature...” MORE>> |
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”French prime minister Lionel Jospin and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld live nearby, so you know the location is very grand...” MORE>> |
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”Dodge the shoppers crowding the cheese and baguette stalls in this lively area and duck into the 27-room Buci Latin...” MORE>> |
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”St.-Tropez hot spot with colorful, interconnected buildings. ...” MORE>> |
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”Named for the playwright who lived up the street at No. 47 while he wrote The Marriage of Figaro, the...” MORE>> |
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”A 13th-century castle, now a 12-room inn and restaurant, in the Vire Valley of central Normandy, a half-hour's drive south...” MORE>> |
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”Nice pools are my priority. Hôtel Costes in Paris has a brilliant one underground.'...” MORE>> |
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”A hidden winter chalet with cavernous rooms, plus ski runs practically at your doorstep....” MORE>> |
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”Gilded 18th-century Louis XV-style palace, in a central location, just steps from the Tuileries and the Seine....” MORE>> |
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”For a Left Bank hotel that started life as a 17th-century abbey, this cloistered gem inspires surprisingly unfettered romantic yearnings...” MORE>> |
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”Guest quarter décor ranges from cozy canopy beds and rustic exposed beams to elegant Empire-style furnishings to exotic Indochine appointments. ...” MORE>> |
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”Former bishop's residence, flanked by the Château Comtal and the Gothic Basilique de Saint-Nazaire....” MORE>> |
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”At the dining room of the restaurant at Hôtel de la Ponche, the aroma of shallots caramelizing, mushrooms sautéeing, and...” MORE>> |
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”Now that this 19th-century jewel box in the Golden Triangle has been given a modern makeover (note the Terence Conran...” MORE>> |
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”When Edna St. Vincent Millay went to Paris in 1921 as a foreign correspondent for Vanity Fair, she took a...” MORE>> |
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”It has the most polished service on Ré, plus 20 guest rooms that enshrine all my favorite Grand Siècle decorating...” MORE>> |
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”This luxurious Avignon landmark once catered to Napoleon, and it's still the area's best place to stay. ...” MORE>> |
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”This medieval hospital is now the site of Burgundy's influential wine auction....” MORE>> |
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”Paris hotels with half as much style can easily cost twice as much. A giddy, nearly over-the-top Orientalist fantasy with...” MORE>> |
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”Secluded 1870 Napoleon III mansion with a 22-acre garden, at the tip of the Cap d'Antibes peninsula. ...” MORE>> |
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”Don't talk to the famously exigent Lauren Bacall about the Ritz: when she descends on Paris, it's the St.-Simon or...” MORE>> |
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”I earned my first 50 francs at the Hôtel du Palais, in Biarritz...” MORE>> |
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”Christian Lacroix's batty, hyper-ornate fashions have been translated into interiors at this new Le Marais hotel....” MORE>> |
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”A 19th-century manor house with small but charmingly furnished rooms....” MORE>> |
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”This 355-square-foot cube is a temporary art installation by day and a one-room hotel after 6 p.m. Through November, the...” MORE>> |
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”In a gracious 19th-century Haussmann building on a tiny street near the Place d'Italie, this little treasure is near the...” MORE>> |
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”19th-century converted private mansion with sophisticated décor, just off the Champs-Élysées....” MORE>> |
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”La Pérouse sits at that electrifying point on the corniche where the road climbs a headland and spills down into...” MORE>> |
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”St.-Germain-des-Prés Fashion-forward La Villa attracts an artsy crowd to a serpentine street lined with big-ticket antiques shops. Designer Jean-Philippe Nuel...” MORE>> |
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”The graphic, mod look he dreamed up for Paris's latest must-stay address, Hôtel Le A, is certainly distinctive: the 26...” MORE>> |
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”Discreet 18th-century palace with a large garden and rooftop pool, steps from the city's most fashionable shops....” MORE>> |
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”A few blocks from the beach and the chic boutiques of Rue Paradis, Hôtel le Grimaldi melds style (Provençal checks...” MORE>> |
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”One of the three Porquerolles islands off the coast south of Château de Sable, Île de Port-Cros—where everything seems to...” MORE>> |
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”Each of the 22 individually decorated rooms gets marks for charm, but No. 6 is the standout; its turquoise walls...” MORE>> |
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”There are so many glacial design-driven hotels in Paris that it's easy to think there's no place left that still...” MORE>> |
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”Just behind the dome of Les Invalides, near the Musée Rodin and the Eiffel Tower, the Tourville has long been...” MORE>> |
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”Filling the gap in Paris between palace hotels and character-filled pensiones that can be 'quirky' to the point of distraction...” MORE>> |
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”1835 palace with Louis XVI-style décor, facing the Tuileries....” MORE>> |
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”In these days of ubiquitous wenge wood, it's hard to comprehend that when Leo-Andrieu opened the cool and sexy Montalembert...” MORE>> |
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”The Negresco's ballroom-sized main public space has a glass dome made in Gustave Eiffel's workshops and a French chandelier ordered...” MORE>> |
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”The Arbre à Oreilles suite features a poetic if maddeningly enigmatic wallpaper commissioned from Pierre Fichefeux, an indie illustrator known...” MORE>> |
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”Historic 1911 palace on one of Paris's most exclusive shopping arteries....” MORE>> |
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”I usually stay at the elegantly faded Jolly Hôtel Lotti or the Belle Époque Hôtel Regina, old-world establishments in striking...” MORE>> |
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”Within partying distance of the Moulin Rouge, the Hôtel Royal Fromentin is a cavalcade of color and artwork reminiscent of...” MORE>> |
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”In a sunset-hued suite at Hôtel Royal Riviera's L'Orangerie villa entice your petite amie with a massage à deux. Rose...” MORE>> |
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”Classic 19th-century town house, on a quiet street in the fashion district between the Champs-Élysées and Avenue Montaigne....” MORE>> |
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”Christophe Pillet, who cut his teeth working for Philippe Starck, has designed Shahé Kalaidjian's new 27-chambre Hotel Sezz in a...” MORE>> |
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”It has a charming, if faded, romance (and not just because Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn filmed scenes from Charade...” MORE>> |
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”If you prefer the action of the port, stay at the 28-room Hôtel Sube. Besides its seaside location, the Sube...” MORE>> |
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”South Pacific meets the south of France at the Hôtel Tahiti Beach, where Polynesian statues stand guard at the entrance...” MORE>> |
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”Though the hotel is tiny, you would be hard-pressed to find a better deal in central Paris, just steps from...” MORE>> |
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”On a white-tiled pedestrian street in the heart of the shopping district, you'll find a chic combination of old and...” MORE>> |
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”Start in Nice’s Old Town and check into the 16-room...” MORE>> |
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”Still, the Windsor has a pretty pool and walled garden, it's a five-minute walk to the beach, and the price...” MORE>> |
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”Efficient hotel (popular with business travelers) in a 19th-century building in the financial district. ...” MORE>> |
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”The hotel is in downtown Nîmes but feels like a romantic rural refuge, with just four guest rooms, a rosy...” MORE>> |
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”I usually stay at the elegantly faded Jolly Hôtel Lotti or the Belle Époque Hôtel Regina, old-world establishments in striking...” MORE>> |
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”The village has no hotels, but to the west is La Bastide de Marie, an 18th-century farmhouse with rooms designed...” MORE>> |
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”Chef Alain Ducasse's 17th-century auberge, on 10 pastoral acres in the foothills of the French Alps....” MORE>> |
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”In the middle of the French Riviera, between St.-Tropez and Cannes, is La Belle Aurore. All of the 17 Provençal-style...” MORE>> |
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”When the French talk about the sea, it’s usually a...” MORE>> |
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”Atmospheric family-run villa surrounded by cypress trees, 12 miles from Nice....” MORE>> |
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”In the seaside village of Perros-Guirec, L'Agapa Hotel & Spa clings—like the agapanthus flower—to the rocks of the remote Granit...” MORE>> |
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”For space (the five guest rooms are huge) and location (the Lubéron Valley), it doesn't get any better than this...” MORE>> |
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”The long-running success of this sprawling, foursquare bastide in the countryside a half-hour from St.-Tropez rests on its table d'hôtes...” MORE>> |
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”East of Aix, a farmhouse restored with knowledge and taste....” MORE>> |
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”During a trip to southern France, my husband and I discovered a peaceful Lubéron oasis. La Louveterie is a four-room...” MORE>> |
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”Dine on a warm anchovy tart by candlelight under a linden tree, then climb to the ethereal La Blanche—of 13...” MORE>> |
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”This beguiling five-suite B&B on a lovely side street is the latest, news in St.-Rémy, the über-Provençal village American travelers...” MORE>> |
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”Ornate 700-year-old palace (a former cardinals' residence) with a 17th-century façade, at the foot of Avignon's Palais des Papes....” MORE>> |
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”L’Ange et L’Éléphant is the almost freakish, salutary exception, an all-in-one inn, restaurant, café, tea salon, and boutique. You might...” MORE>> |
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”The roulotte is being renovated and will reopen in the spring....” MORE>> |
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”At the foot of the village is La Péllissaria, a hotel in a 16th-century house; the 10 whitewashed guest rooms...” MORE>> |
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”A single story of smooth whitewashed stucco erected around a courtyard paved with loose stones, La Quinta hews freely (very...” MORE>> |
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”1880 Renaissance-style villa, in one of the Riviera's most attractive villages....” MORE>> |
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”Beat the crowds at this 12-room establishment, situated in northernmost Provence and with the atmosphere of a maison de famille....” MORE>> |
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”Chef Jacques Thorel's wife, Solange, runs an inn above his restaurant, with spacious rooms that exude old-money polish and clubby...” MORE>> |
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”Armand Van Lierde and Greet Decreus, Belgian architects who had their own practice in Antwerp before coming to the Dordogne...” MORE>> |
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”...beyond charming, with antique tea gowns draped here and there, the glassy-crunchy feel of sea grass underfoot...” MORE>> |
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”When the French talk about the sea, it’s usually as a melodramatic need...” MORE>> |
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”The main lodge at Le Hameau Albert 1er has 27 rooms that look out onto Mont Blanc. The property also...” MORE>> |
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”A crumbling outbuilding on the property lent the stone for the façades, with local dealers supplying the patinated roof tiles...” MORE>> |
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”When London food editor and best-selling cookbook author Orlando Murrin and his partner Peter Steggall first visited the Tarn, outside...” MORE>> |
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”I'm going to stick my neck out and say that Mas des Câpriers, lost deep in the countryside, has the...” MORE>> |
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”In the 15th century, before the region was ceded to France, King René of Provence would repair to this relais...” MORE>> |
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”As his guest, don't overdo it. Drape yourself by the pool, handsomely conceived as a plain ornamental bassin. Or pick...” MORE>> |
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”Bayol's reputation was sealed, and the vogue for roulottes informally ignited, when Jacques Grange, a neighbor and the nearest thing...” MORE>> |
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”Trio of stone buildings on the banks of the Dronne river, in the Venice of Périgord....” MORE>> |
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”This quaint four-room hotel rises on a riverbank in Pont-Aven, an artists' haven Gauguin visited regularly in the late 1880's...” MORE>> |
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