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#FRANCE: Hunting season and Le Sanglier! Simon Constable

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#FRANCE: Hunting season and Le Sanglier! Simon Constable

1912 FRANCE

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This is

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is CBS Eye on the World.

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Here's John Bachelor.

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To the south of France, to my colleague Simon Constable writing for the Wall Street Journal

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and Barons and other distinguished publications, first the climate and L. Sanglia

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A drawing of a wild boar in the countryside that I very much

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imagine looks where Simon is living right now in the south of France.

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The La Sanglier take refuge in Simon's private wood now and again.

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However, I worry because this is Wednesday.

0:42.0

That means in France, it's hunting day and the barking of the dogs

0:47.4

chase the La Sanglia whiché, every which way.

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Simon, a good day to you.

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I imagine it's a good hunting day,

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although I fear for the La Sanglea.

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This is a beautiful animal, Simon.

1:01.3

There's nothing hostile about it. it's a very large pig.

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It is a very large very furry pig with tusks on it and that they are basically very nice unless you get between a mother and the

1:16.8

pups and if you get between the mother and the pups then you may get charged

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at with those massive tusks and hurt, but other than that I think you're

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going to be absolutely delighted by looking at them. They are truly beautiful and the picture that

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you sent over to me, which is a lovely watercolor, is exactly

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the same as where I live.

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