>Have you noticed in >all the books on French >style and houses (provence, normandy, >brittany etc) that the houses >featured belong to english, german >and dutch, very rarely a >french person and if they >are french they are parisien >and have a second house >in provence! So? Could it be that most French people do not really want to have their house advertised or even mentionned in the magazines or books you are talking about. I do believe that a lot of French people are attached to the privacy of their homes. Philippe