Traditional festive culinary delights in France - Oysters

One of my favourite things about being in France is strolling to the local boulangerie and getting fresh bread every day, there’s no comparison to fresh baguette cooked in a wood fired oven. Supermarket offerings are usually pretty good (Unless you buy the huge bags of buy 10 get 2 free baguettes! Who can eat that much bread anyway?) But it has not always been that way.

 In late May or early June 1944 you could catch a tram from Limoges to Angouleme. This tram would have taken you through the timeless countryside and alongside the river Glane. The first building you would have seen as you entered the village would have been the beautiful church and at this point you would have known you were in Oradour.

 Today is the 600th anniversary of the birth of one of Frances most famous warriors, and perhaps one of the most famous in the world, Joan of Arc. Known in France as Jeanne d’Arc, and nicknamed ‘The Maid of Orleans’, there is perhaps no other national heroine like her in French history.