One, Place de l’Eglise: A Year or Two in a French Village by Trevor Dolby

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A thousand years ago, around the time King Harold inconveniently got shot with an arrow and a group of ladies made a tapestry, in the south of France a man and his friends decided to build a house next to a church. Over the centuries many things happened in that house, none of which found its way into history books. With the coming of the first decade of the twenty-first century, 1 Place de l’Eglise had become rather derelict. The roof leaked, the mortar in the ancient walls was crumbling, a fertilizer bag stuffed a broken window. There was no electricity to speak of, the plumbing was a lead pipe in one room, the cellar doors had rotted. And there it stood. Shutters and doors firmly locked, the villagers of Causses-et-Veyran passing by to the church next door. Then, an impoverished – in his mind at any rate – Londoner and his wife went a little crazy and bought it. It was love at first sight.