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I've been to Paris, Le Mans, and drove down through Dijon, Dole, and through the pass at Salins-les-Bains on way to Neuchatel.
The Roman fortifications on the pass overlooks at Salins-les-Bains took my breath away. They are almost 10 times older than the United States.
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The place I live was the ground where there's confrontations between English and French in the 100 years war.There 's old stones too.
The french king "Jean le bon" was hostage of the English. French paid for the liberation of the king with special gold money made specially.
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Welcome from St. louis, Missouri, USA.
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Welcome! My wife and I have enjoyed our visits to Marseille, Lyon, Avegnon, and Paris.
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Hello,
Thank you for your welcome.
I 'd like to visit USA , it 's a very beautiful country.
I'll post more picture of my country, here is far(for France) from city.
Good day for all.
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Welcome from Denmark, I am actually an American living Copenhagen. What kind of guns do you have?
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Hello,
I 've an antique Smith & Wesson, a 38 New Departure, and a copy of Remington New Army 1858 cal 44.
If I can I'll buy another old west revolver.
In France it's prohibited to have and hand gun at house except an antique before 1900.
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Those are beautiful pictures. Makes me wish to be there, looking out the window of a pension, having my coffee and croissant breakfast.
Do the antique guns have to be old, or can they be new reproductions of old designs?
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The pictures was made this morning, spring arrive with very good weather, every day with my wife we take breakfast outside, it's very cool.
The antique handgun can be a reproduction of old models but it can't be gun with smokeless powder.
Antique handguns with metallic cartridge are ok if it 's black powder.
France laws are absurd sometime.
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I looked at the Brassac area on Google Earth. Beautiful! I didn't know France had such rural places. Where I have been was densely populated.
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I would like to have a modern handgun but it's complicated, you must have a licence, you must shoot in a club (far from my house), you must let a part of the handgun if you return at home with it, you must have a safe for stock it at home. Well on it is prohibited to carry it except if you go to the club or the gunsmith.
Excuse my English.
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Here, it's VERY rural ...
But it's a good place for live.
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Where do you live Gamecock ?
I'll take a look too .
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Northern South Carolina.
As I traversed north east France, I was struck by the lack of forest, just small patches of woods here and there. I figured everywhere that could be cultivated had been cultivated for thousands of years. If you look at
Google Earth from Charlotte, NC, to Columbia, SC, highway I-77, you will see it is virtually all forest. Over 80 miles. Brassac has much forest around, I presume because the surrounding area isn't suitable for agriculture.
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There's agriculture, there's corn, and other cereals. There's a lot of fruits too and a speciality of the city of Moissac the grape (Chasselas).
There's a lot of smalls forests, the trees are Sweet chestnut, oak, there's no pines trees.
Your region seem to be much more industrial and populated.
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There's agriculture, there's corn, and other cereals. There's a lot of fruits too and a speciality of the city of Moissac the grape (Chasselas).
There's a lot of smalls forests, the trees are Sweet chestnut, oak, there's no pines trees.
Your region seem to be much more industrial and populated.
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Dryer climate gives us lots of pines.
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Thiery82,
Your picture shows a garden, nice view of the hills, dogs, and trees. Who would need anything more?
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If you see my wife and my house !!!
He he he
I'm privileged, even in my region, but I must do 100 kilometers for the work everyday.
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100k round-trip work commutes are pretty normal for many of us here. A true hardship that is uniquely French, would be if you were forced to make that commute in a Citroën 2CV ("deux chevaux")! 
I had the pleasure of using the 2CV when I lived in Paris (Ch*tillon) in 1981, and it's was a driving "experience" unimaginable to most Americans. My Swiss friends called it "The Galloping Apple Crate". As quirky as that car is, it's hard not to develop an affection for it.
Mine looked like this one.
Found a DWTV review of one that looks just like mine, same color, for the curious uninitiated.
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Did you see this 2 cv it was made for a movie of James Bond
You like the famous french car, I like the famous military American car :
I ask to myself a question, is there a relation between the name "Smith" of "Smith & Wesson" and the word "gunsmith" ? Perhaps it's stupid 
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Of course, the great "For Your Eyes Only" off-road 2CV car chase.
Very sweet Jeep. Do you participate in WWII battle re-enactments with it?
Etymology of Smith in Gunsmith: The word smith is cognate with the somewhat archaic English word, "smite", meaning "to hit" or "to strike". Originally, smiths practiced their crafts by forming metal with hammer blows.
Wait, is that a motorcycle fairing on the shelf behind your Jeep. What do you ride?
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Hello,
the jeep is only for go in the paths around the house, for the pleasure.
I do motorbike , the part you can see is from my old Honda CBX 1000. I ride most of the time my Yamaha XT500 or my Husqvarna 260 WR.
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I love the CBX 1000. Always thought it had the most impressive looking engine ever installed on a motorcycle. My husband rides the Honda GL1800 Goldwing and I have the Honda 750 Nighthawk.
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Been retired for ten years from doing mechanical engineering. Even worked for a French firm named Areva for a couple of years, doing nuclear power services. Now my full-time job is grandmother to ten grandchildren. I have a baptism, three sweet-sixteen parties and a college graduation, in the next two months.
Even though I still have my motorcycle, for sentimental reasons, I don't drive it anymore because of health reasons. But I still ride with my husband. We moved from New York to South Carolina, and great bike roads in the mountains are ten minutes away. This is an open-air chapel nearby called Pretty Place that we ride to, that shows a good view of our county. It looks a bit like your area.
Our favorite bike ride was when we rented a GL1800 in Germany and rode through the Alps for two weeks. You are lucky to be close to them.
Ours is the black bike at the end of the row.
I am new to the firearms hobby but have loved motorcycles since I was a child and my uncle would tell stories about riding in Europe during the war. I took motorcycle lessons as soon as I was old enough.
This was my uncle, riding in Belgium with Company "B", 769th Military Police Brigade.
He fell in love with a French woman while stationed there, and wanted to marry her, but sadly, my grandparents forbid it. As he lay dying many years later with the whole family in the hospital room, he jerked upright in bed, look to an empty corner of the room, and yelled out her name. The family knew about their history and I like to think of them together at last.
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Hello,
thank for the pictures and for tell me the history of your uncle. Why your grandparents forbid to him to marry ?
They hates french ? 
You've done good and beautiful travel by motorbike. I like motorbike like you, since I was child? I still have the first one that my parents offered me when I was 13, a Kawasaki MC1 90CC from 1975 (It is rather rare).
My bikes, the blue a Peugeot xp6 50CC was for my son when he was 14, and the white a Suzuki 125 TS for my wife.
When I ride I go to the center of France(Auvergne) and I 've gone in Corse, it was fantastic, there's only small and mountain roads.
CORSE
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Take a look to the short name of the city....
Bort les orgues (Auvergne)
Bort les orgues (Auvergne)
I would like to make a ride by motorbike or car and go from Nord to South of USA, perhaps a day when I have the time and the money to do that.
My age is 52 I work in a corn-flakes factory, I am technician, I fix the machines. I've a son who is 21 old and a daughter who is 27. I am not a grandfather for the moment but I look forward, to the day that we do.
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My grandparents were afraid that if my uncle married her, that he would choose to stay in France with his new wife, and they would never see him again. Judging from the letters he wrote home saying how much he loved being there, he probably would have stayed there.
A USA tour can be a fun adventure. I've lived and traveled in much of North America and would be happy to answer any questions.
I've got a Grand-daughter whose 23 and about to graduate from university and planning to tour Europe after graduation.
This is her, shooting the S&W 460.
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Hello
thank you for the offer
If you need some help or informations for your grand-daughter travel you can ask me.
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Welcome from Texas Thierry82. Great forum for all things S&W, have fun, learn lots, share what you know.
Always grand to have a new member of the S&W family join in from across the Eastern pond.
Big fan of the wines from your country.
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Welcome from Texas Thierry82. Great forum for all things S&W, have fun, learn lots, share what you know.
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