Last fall we attended a wine party in Quarante, a charming hamlet in the Languedoc region of southern France. The village was tiny. The house was anything but, with three stories, six bedrooms, a ...

One region in southern France was known as Languedoc-Roussillon, which was later amalgamated with another region to become Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées. That’s quite a mouthful. By 2016 ...