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Frommer's Complete Guide to France 2019, 24th Edition

ISBN 978-1-62887-398-6 (paper), 978-1-62887-399-3 (e-book)

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AN IMPORTANT NOTE

The world is a dynamic place. Hotels change ownership, restaurants hike their prices, museums alter their opening hours, and buses and trains change their routings. And all of this can occur in the several months after our authors have visited, inspected, and written about, these hotels, restaurants, museums, and transportation services. Though we have made valiant efforts to keep all our information fresh and up-to-date, some few changes can inevitably occur in the periods before a revised edition of this guidebook is published. So please bear with us if a tiny number of the details in this book have changed. Please also note that we have no responsibility or liability for any inaccuracy or errors or omissions, or for inconvenience, loss, damage, or expenses suffered by anyone as a result of assertions in this guide.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jane Anson has lived in France since 2003. She is author of Bordeaux Legends (Abrahms 2013), Wine Revolution (Quarto 2017), The Club of Nine (Katz Publishing 2016), Angelus (Editions de la Martiniere 2016), and translator for Lynch Bages & Cie (Glenat 2015). Anson is contributing writer of the Michelin Guide to the Wine Regions of France (Michelin Publications, March 2010) and more than a dozen guidebooks on France and Japan.

Anna E. Brooke moved to Paris in 2000 and hasnt looked back since. British-born, she is now a full-fledged bohemian, juggling life between freelance travel writing, screenwriting, and songwriting. She has authored seven guides for Frommers and is a Paris expert for the U.K.s best-selling Sunday Times Travel Magazine.

Mary Anne Evans bought a house in a remote part of the Auvergne after leaving university and began exploring France in a Renault 4 van. Her delight in discovering both the best of and the off-beat in French cities and the countryside remains as strong as ever. She has written books on Japanese prints and guitars, guides to Belgium and Stockholm and to London for Gault Millau and gayot.com, articles on Finland and Sweden, and many articles on France for tripsavvy.com. Visit her at her website, maryannesfrance.com.

Lily Heise left behind her native Canada in 2000 to pursue her love of French joie de vivre in Paris. She writes on travel and romance for a variety of international and local publications. She is also the author of two lively books on searching for love in Paris, Je TAime, Me Neither, and Je TAimeMaybe? and shares further romantic travel tips at www.jetaimemeneither.com. She also would like to thank Emily Dilling for her advice on the Loire.

Sophie Kevany was born in Washington, D.C., and has lived and worked in Ireland, France, South Africa, and Peru. She is a freelance journalist, writer, and researcher. Over the last 20 years she has written for a range of news agencies and publications including Agence France Presse (AFP), Dow Jones, Decanter, and Wine Business International. Most recently she has launched a communications and strategy company, Client Planet, for plant-based and vegan businesses.

Mary Novakovich is an award-winning travel writer and journalist and a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers based in Hertfordshire, England. She has been writing extensively about France and her other countries for 20 years for The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, France Magazine, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, the BBC, CNN, and Lonely Planet, among others. She also has written guidebooks for Frommers, Berlitz, and Insight Guides.

Tristan Rutherford has been a freelance writer for more than a decade. His lucky first assignment took him to Nice, and hes been based there ever since. He has visited some 70 countries and written about 30 of them for The Independent and the Sunday New York Times Travel magazine. Tristan also lectures on travel journalism at Londons Central Saint Martins.

Louise Simpson fell in love with all things French as a teenager on holidays to her family home in Dordogne and as a French student at Cambridge University. Since moving to France nearly two decades ago, she has authored a dozen travel guides to France and is the hotel correspondent for Telegraph Travel on Central and Southern France. She also has written for FT Weekend, The Independent, and The Spectator in the U.K., as well as for Zagat and Google in the U.S. and as a food columnist for Monaco Life. Louise lives in London and Monaco.

Kathryn Tomasetti, U.S.-born and Italian-raised, writes travel and food features for a variety of publications including The Guardian and Delicious. Her holiday photossnapped from as far afield as China, Albania, and Chilehave been published by National Geographic and Time Out. Kathryns favorite places in Provence are the pavement cafes of Avignon and the art-filled city of Arles. She resides in Nice.

Victoria Trott is an award-winning freelance travel journalist who specializes in France. A graduate in French and Spanish, she writes for a range of international publications. Her most exciting discovery in this update was that you can get a glass of champagne for 5 in Reims.

Simon Willmores career in travel writing began when he moved to Grenoble in 2008when he should have been studying for his Masters in Engineering. Since retraining as a journalist, he has coauthored four guide books for Rough Guides, blogged for National Geographic Traveller, and written a technology column in a national womens magazine. He is currently the editorial director of Travel Daily and a board member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. Follow him on Twitter: @SiWillmore.