FRANCE

We have been coming to France and the Dordogne for many years, beginning in 1989 for summer vacations at our newly acquired house near St Cyprian, and then, since 1999, here at La Millasserie. For many of those years we spent our summers buying French antiques for Alain's gallery, Alain Pioton Antiques, that he had opened in 1982 in the, at that time, little known town of Hudson, New York. His was the first antiques shop in Hudson and by the time he closed it in 2008 there were 70 of them and Hudson had become gentrified and known not only for antiques, but for art, music and food. Of course those buying trips all over France were business for Alain, but they were also fun for us both, and they were a summer respite for me from my work as Professor of English at the City University of New York... By 2002 we were able to spend more and longer time at La Millasserie, and having early on fallen in love with the Perigord, as our French friends reminded us we should call it, we began to..

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