It offers fine medieval houses much favoured in French film backdrops, set alongside mellow, honey-coloured 17th and 18th century buildings.
Home to some 50 antiques dealers, galleries and craftsmen, Pézenas is an ideal backdrop for the biannual Grande Foire a la Brocante which usually fields some 150 exhibitors along the National 113, with the first brocante this year running on Sunday, May 7.
Pézenas’ days in the sun came in the 17th century when the young French playwright and actor Molière, whose original name was Jean- Baptiste Poquelin, travelled the region with his Illustre Théâtre troupe. Between June and September, the 17th century Hotel d’Alfonce in Pézenas, where Molière and his troupe performed from 1660-65, is open to visitors.
Thanks to fleamarketinsiders.com for the brocante details.
