4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Meet Jane Webster, an Australian woman who has just spent lockdown in a 72-room chateau in Normandy.
She is the woman behind Chateau de Bosguet, which you can find more about on the links below.
We chat about chateau life, Paris, having a one-hectare vegetable garden, and much more!
By the way, the covered passage in Paris that Jane discussed was the Passage Choiseul.
Find Jane on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/janewebsterthefrenchtable/
Find her website and chateau here: https://www.thefrenchtable.com.au/
And help me make this show better by becoming a Patreon member today: https://www.patreon.com/theearfultower
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0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, it is me, Oliver G, your host in this show that's all about Paris and indeed France. |
0:07.0 | Yes, sometimes we go outside the periphery and tell some stories from around this beautiful country. |
0:13.9 | Today, no exception. |
0:15.4 | You're going to hear the voice of Jane Webster. |
0:18.7 | If you think that's an Australian accent, if you think that's two Australian accents, |
0:22.5 | you're exactly right. |
0:23.4 | Jane is from Melbourne. |
0:24.9 | We've been back and forthing for years, |
0:26.9 | hoping to catch each other, |
0:29.0 | either in Normandy where her beautiful chateau is, |
0:31.5 | or in Paris, |
0:32.3 | but it just never really happened until this very episode. |
0:35.9 | Lovely woman, check out, |
0:37.2 | I highly recommend that you check out pictures of her chateau. |
0:42.3 | Chateau de Bosque, which is in Normandy, sort of between France and the, if you were, head northwards. |
0:49.3 | Before you get to the sea, about halfway there you'll find her chateau. |
0:52.3 | But look up that website to get sort of an idea of the grandeur that we're talking about here. |
0:58.6 | Thefrenchtable.com. |
1:01.5 | Dot-a-U. |
1:02.3 | And there you can also find information about her past books for books now. |
1:08.0 | Before we get into it, just so you can feel that you're here in Paris with us, I recorded |
1:13.5 | this right by the opera, the opera house, in a restaurant called the Cocoa Opera Gagnier, beautiful |
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