This episode 175.

This episode is brought to you by Patreon supporters and addicted to France, the tour company that specializes in small group and custom tours in France. the The Bonjour, I'm Annie, and on today's show I chat with Elise and Phil Robertson about the

Monsieur Michel.

Originally we were going to do an episode all about the Monsieur Michel,

both from the perspective of Phil, who visited recently and with Elise adding her historical knowledge into the

mix. But as I suspected Elise's story was so interesting and so involved that it took too long and so I cut it up in two episodes

So today you will mostly hear from Elise about the history of the Monsieur

and next week you'll hear mostly from Phil about his experience where Elise also adds some interesting little tidbits.

And now here's the conversation.

Hello Phil and welcome back to join us in France.

Bourgeois or Annie.

How are you?

Yes, it's wonderful to have you back.

And again, we're talking about Normandy.

You should move there.

I'm very tempted. If I had to live somewhere other than the U.S.

It would be Normandy. Well, there you go.

Someday.

So today we're going to talk about your visit in September 2017, how you took the train between

Paris and Rhenne and then you rented a car to get to the most amichel.

Yes.

But this time we're doing this if you can hear a little different,

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