A DECADE HAD passed since my family’s Paris days, a three-year period during which I worked at a newspaper, our daughters studied at French écoles and we explored many of France’s most-celebrated regions, from Normandy to the Alps to the Côte d’Azur. But, like most foreigners, and even most French, we’d never journeyed to Ariège—a rugged and secluded region between Toulouse to the north and Spain to the south, with a checkered history. That changed in July 2018 when we arrived in Ariège to visit a Franco-American family whose...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 06, 2020 16:41 UTC