Sentences with phrase «french provincial town»

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The movie is essentially a return to «Chocolat,» director Lasse Hallstrom's 2000 tale of a provincial French town that reacts badly to the arrival of deliciousness.

Papeete is still very much a provincial French town, albeit one with a distinctly Pacific flavor.

It is also a mix of cultures, with the heritage of the French immigrants, African - Americans settlers from the 19th century United States, and modern - day European immigration, all giving the provincial towns a cosmopolitan feel.

The Hundred Years War, a conflict between England and France for control of the French throne which raged from 1337 until 1453 posed a threat to many provincial French towns; the construction of stout defensive walls protected Martel and the town became prosperous again in the fifteenth century.