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It sounds slightly dirty, doesn’t it? Figeac. Well, it does if you’ve read Henry Miller.

No matter; Figeac is a delightful medieval town in the Lot department of the Midi-Pyrenees. It was once full of tanners, but now the river is quite a bit less toxic; you can sit along it at the Le Hotel Pont D’Or bar and nurse a kir or some such while thinking of life in medieval times without being bothered by even the slightest whiff of the serious pollution those skin-preparers dumped into the water.

It’s not all memories of the past in Figeac; the Tour de France passes here on the 12th of July on its way toward Toulouse.

Figeac Vacation Rental

If you were one of those planning types, you could have invited some friends to share the expense of the seven room vacation rental seen on the right at Lissac et Mouret, 5 km from Figeac. Then you could have waited for the tour on hillside with a bottle of one of my favorite wines from Cahors, a mere 70km or so away.

So if you like mountain scenery, small medieval towns, good wine and folks that delight in cooking up some waterfowl like duck and geese doused in some pretty sturdy red wines, consider this part of France for your vacation.

They even have a Museum of Ecriture in Figeac. Yes, a writing museum. You see, the guy who figured out the Rosetta Stone, Jean-François Champollion, was born in Figeac.

You should go.