Rosemary Bailey and her husband did more than just daydream. The beguiling Life in a Postcard tells how the couple were travelling in the French Pyrenees in 1988 when they were smitten with a crumbling medieval monastery which they later bought.

Jacques Maso, former member of the French Resistance in Perpignan, carried on his 73 year old legal battle against the Gestapo until his death in 2017