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a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story

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For Andrew and Catherine Harrow

French Farmhouses & Cottages Assyria to the colorful personal storiesFrance is a country of contrasts uniquely encompassing both northern Europe and the Mediterranean world and these contrasts are nowhere more evident than in its farmhouses and cottages, anchored as they are in the land in all its differing guises. The wide geographical and geological variations, the survival of peasant cultures well into the twentieth century and the strong regional traditions all combine to give a variety of rural architecture