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Italy has its Fiat 500, germany its VW Beetle and the Brits their beloved Mini. France's iconic cute car is the Citroën 2CV - the deux chevaux (two horse) car named after its minimal horsepower. The first 2CV rolled off the production line in 1948, and the car sold well until 1990, when the last of five million left the assembly line after its design fell out of kilter with E.U. safety regulations...
Think of it as a French Beetle. For almost a half-century, Citroën's 2CV - better known as deux chevaux (two horses), a reference to its underpowered engine - was hugely popular with farmers and urban bohemians because of its cheap price and trouble-free engine. Fourteen years after the last deux chevaux rolled off the assembly line, its appeal endures. The essential piece of any car collection, its appeal stretches well beyond France, with clubs active across Europe, Israel, Australia, the U.S. and Japan. The car has long been popular with visitors to France, and now Florent Dargnies...
Think of it as a French Beetle. For almost a half-century, Citro?n's 2CV?better known as deux chevaux (two horses), a reference to its underpowered engine?was hugely popular with farmers and urban bohemians because of its cheap price and trouble-free engine. Fourteen years after the last deux chevaux rolled off the assembly line, its appeal endures. The essential piece of any car collection, its appeal stretches well beyond France, with clubs active across Australia, Europe, Israel, Japan...
...devout sun worshiper and the husband of an expert amateur cook, he stumbled on a patch of Provence and left his native England without delay or regret. He did the things a lot of dreamers do: he bought language tapes, a 200-year-old house, a Citroen deux chevaux, and resolved to write a novel. But the renovation of ancient stone and the crafting of new fiction do not mix; each day workmen banished Mayle to a succession of chalky corners. So what could he do with his time except make his fortune -- by chronicling the scene around...
...full-time career in sculpture until he was past 50. He was trained as a decorative-metalworker. Iron is everywhere in Barcelona, foaming along the balconies, standing out in rigid black swags and spikes from the corners of 19th century buildings, lacing itself into intricate grilles and diapers and chevaux-de-frise: it is the bronze of Spain. The González family had been forging it for at least three generations. Julio González worked in the family firm; he went to art school and learned to draw, but at root he was thought of as a forjador...