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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
Top names in European couture fall over themselves to order the latest in fashion accessories, from a few traditional ateliers still thriving in the Haute-Vienne.
Roger Steptoe explores Saint-Junien’s glove-making industry – past and present.
It’s not widely known that
gloves have been Saint-
Junien’s staple
commercial diet for more
than nine centuries. An ad
hoc late-summer survey
among a few local Englishspeakers
showed that they
had no idea that the town
boasts three leather glove
workshops. These produce
gloves for high fashion
houses, as well as supplying
the army, the police and the
airforce with gloves for their
everyday working lives.
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Until December 13, catering students at the Lycée
Professionel Darnet at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, in the southern
Haute-Vienne, are putting on their best aprons to impress the
local British community (no mint sauce and over-cooked
vegetables here). The idea is to give them lunch at a very
reasonable cost, and to give the students practice in cooking
and serving in English, explained organiser Ann Lewis.
‘Service with a smile’. Two-course lunches at the Lycée
Professionel Darnet, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (87) November 27 at
noon. €5,50 per head Wine extra Reservations essential through
Ann Lewis on 05 55 09 90 72 (by Monday November 19). Non
Familles Rurales members welcome.
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
It is not compulsory in
France for a mairie to hang
a picture of the country’s
current President on its
walls. But in Sannat in the
Creuse a storm has broken
out, over the refusal of its
81-year-old rebel mayor to
honour Nicolas Sarkozy in
his room of local power.
Henri Sauthon, mayor of
the 380-soul village and a
retired farmer, said: “We
were offered a portrait of the
president. During a meeting
some said they were against
hanging the picture. We had
a vote – which ruled against
by five to four.”
His decision has
reportedly earned him death
threats and angry letters from
Limousin Sarkozy-ites.
The rebel-rousers have
had their way, despite
Chirac’s portrait that still
hangs alongside that of
Mitterrand. Old beliefs
obviously die hard.
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A series of burgularies and
attempted break-ins in the
Corrèze captured the
headlines last month.
Masseret, Chamboulive
and Seilhac were at the
centre of various crimes
which involved a bank and
shops. This series of
offences follows a spate of
similar incidents in the
Limousin since the
beginning of August.
Residents are advised
to make sure any closed-up
and empty homes are
properly insured and
protected. Particularly
vulnerable are holiday
homes.
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
Local newspaper ‘La
Montagne’ recently
reported on the hearing at the
Guéret courts of a Scotsman
accused of swindling
(escroquerie).
The man, a Glaswegian,
is accused of several
fraudulent acts, notably of
duping a couple into buying
a château which was never
his to sell.
Posing as the owner the
Glaswegian put a disused
and abandoned château in
Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac up for
sale in a UK newspaper, for
which the initial sale
contract, the compromis de
vente, is now untraceable.
The advert reportedly
attracted a Dutch couple to
buy the château. Before a
notaire in August 2001, the
couple are said to have
signed the final sale deeds
(acte de vente) for 580,000
francs (about €88,400), in
the belief that the Scotsman
was the real owner.
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