French Property News – August 2019

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Joie de vivre

84 Joie de vivre

The best of Francophile books and

films, interiors, recipes and quizzes

87 Your photos

France through the camera lens and

our monthly photo competition

88 Rural riddles

Quiz our countryside expert with

your pastoral puzzles

The

Knowledge

76 Taxing times

Is France’s notorious reputation as a place

of high taxation justified?

78 Cost cutter

Get to grips with your budget and turn

your dreams into a workable reality

79 Accept defeat?

When a property purchase doesn’t go as

planned, where does the law stand?

80 Time for change

Everything you need to know about the

115th Congrès des Notaires

82 Ask the experts

Answers to your questions on property

letting, dividing up your estate and

emptying septic tanks

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70

All for one and one for all!

One day I’ll be French!

Regulars

8 News

Property, Brexit, travel and events

14 Tête-à-tête

Let’s chat! Share your stories and

experiences by letter and social media

16 Three of the best

A trio of special apartments

18 Business of the month

A kennels and cattery in Vendée

20 Properties of the month

Homes to suit all tastes across France

22 French property dreams

A countryside idyll between two

bastide towns in Lot-et-Garonne

24 On CompleteFrance.com

The best stories from our website

60 Architect’s diary

Designing new homes and

improving old

74 Woody’s worries

More puzzles of French

property ownership

98 France Property Shop

Insight and analysis from our

market-leading property website

106 My dream home

A ‘gentilhommière’ on a man-sized

scale in southern Dordogne

Meet some of

this month’s

contributors

DEBBIE HOWELLS

Debbie Howells is a Sunday

Times top 10 bestselling

author of psychological

thrillers. Her fourth book,

Her Sister’s Lie, has just

been published by Pan

Macmillan. She now writes

from a farmhouse in the Dordogne.

Read about Debbie in the Dordogne on p

JOY BRODIER

Joy teaches English to

adult students. She loves

etymology and is the

author of What’s French for

Baguette?, a book about

(easy) links between

French and English words.

She is an expert on the little known battles

fought by the British around Reims in 1918.

Joy digs into French flower language on p

ARTHUR CUTLER

Arthur has been living

in France for 28 years

and runs the well-known

planning and architectural

business French Plans,

offering a nationwide

service to help people with

planning permits wherever they live.

Arthur’s new series on planning starts on p

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