We had a nice visit from our French family friends Martine and Michèl. As they only live 1 1/2 hours from Grazac they came on Wednesday to join us for lunch and an excursion to Le Puy-en-Velay. We visited the old city center and the Cathédrale Notre Dame. The rock behind the church is surmounted by a statue of Notre-Dame-de-France erected in 1860. 213 canons, among the trophies from the capture of Sebastopol, were given to contractors by Napoleon III and were melted down to cast the base and figure of the Virgin.
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