COTY: The Perfume Man
In 1912, visiting a relative in Tours, François Coty, the perfume man, fell in love with the Loire Valley.
The French Girl and The English Poet
In November 1791 Wordsworth popped over to France to see the Revolution.
The SOE in The Loire Valley
In Valençay, about an hour away from Amboise, is a monument commemorating ninety-one men and thirteen women agents of F Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) who died, many in concentration camps, for working with the French Resistance.
Michel de Gast
Michel de Gast was Captain of the famous Forty-Five bodyguards of Henry III.
Madame de Staël v. Napoleon Bonaparte
Who now remembers the woman who took on Napoleon and rattled his cage?