Frank Johnson

A landslide in the Midi

Frank Johnson on how (and why) they voted in his part of rural France

issue 04 June 2005

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Our TGV, slipping through La France Profonde from Lille to Montpelier three days before the referendum, would now end its journey earlier, at N

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