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THOSE FRENCH PLATES is the creation of two old friends Patricia Tourton-Victor a French woman living between London, Paris and Bordeaux and Dixie Nichols a very English woman living in London

We are in the habit of going to Patricia's family house in Bordeaux. We take the evening Eurostar from London, stay overnight in Paris, then take the train down to Bordeaux next morning. Once there we cook, eat, drink, talk, walk and go antiqueing.

Patricia fell in love with these plates, we began to hunt them out,learning more with every find, to be honest we created this website so that we could go on buying them.

The plates seem to us to be a distilation of old France; of comfortable bourgeoise homes with grandmere presiding over the soup tureen; the France that Monet paints and Proust remembers.

These trompe l'oeil artichoke and asparagus pieces are the crockery equivalent of monogramed linen sheets. They belonged to households that grew asparagus and artichokes in the garden amongst the sunflowers, and took the greatest care over every aspect of food and wine and ate from beautifully set tables.

We might not be able to live that way any more, but these plates are a part of something we appreciate and do not want to lose sight of entirely.