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French Eye Candy: 14 Villages In National Beauty Pageant

French Eye Candy: 14 Villages In National Beauty Pageant

How much does France love its patrimoine? Let us count the ways.

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Mar 20, 2021
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If you want to know how much the French love their Patrimoine, just follow the annual contest to choose the nation’s favorite village. It’s a curious sort of affair but also a hotly contested one.

A village is selected from each region, and then a segment is filmed for broadcast on France 3 television station. Each village gets its moment in the nationa…

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