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Aix Festival of classical music

Celebrating 60 years, the Aix Festival offers classical music and opera in venues across the town with some popular favourites alongside new and interesting offerings, from June 27 to July 23.

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Django Reinhardt Festival

Musicians from the whole world celebrating Django Reinhardt, one of the heroes of the history of jazz taking place in Samois in the surroundings of Paris, the village where he spent the last part of his life, from June 26 to 29.

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The Schlumpf classic car collection in Mulhouse

FANS of classic cars should take a trip to the Schlumpf museum, near Mulhouse in the east of France, to get up to speed with all things motoring.

Visitors will be guided through the exhibits, which feature cars from the 1930s, by both sound and images as the world of the motorcar is explored.

Dressage competition near Limoges

One of France's National stud farms, Pompadour, west of Limoges, is famous for the breeding of Anglo-Arab horses.

Throughout July a series of dressage competitions are held providing one of the highlights of the busy Limousin equestrian events calendar.

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Visit Bergerac’s tobacco museum

IF you travel around the south west corner of France you will occasionally see tobacco being grown in the fields, even in these health concious times.

At Bergerac's tobacco museum, or Musee du Tebac, you can learn about how the crop was first brought to the French royal courts in the 16th Century by Jean Nicot.

Listen to Millau en Jazz

Millau en Jazz is a relaxed spring jazz festival that takes place in different villages in the Regional Natural Park of Grands Causses.

The event welcomes French and international jazz artists, who perform at indoor and outdoor venues in a number of small towns - Paulhe, Saint-Jean d'Alcapiès, Viala du Tarn and Sainte-Eulalie de Cernon, from July 12 - 19, 2008.

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Savour the raspberry festival in Limousin

Every July, the tiny village of Concèze in the Limousin celebrates its greatest export - the humble raspberry.

More than 6,000 people attend the raspberry festival to meet producers and tour stalls which sell an extraordinary diversity of products made from 'la framboise', on July 9.

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Belfort rock festival

Les Eurockéennes is one of the liveliest events of the summer in France Comté, with bands from all over the continent playing in a lively programme that runs from hip-hop to reggae, classic rock to heavy metal in Belfort, July 4 to 6, 2008.

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Cézanne in summer

A series of events and exhibitions featuring Cézanne and his work in Aix en Provence, as well as those influenced by the artist synonymous with the colours and light of the region. Runs from June until September, 2008.

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Salon d'Ete, La Galerie des Arts de Verteillac

The annual Salon d'Ete brings together the work of local artists from the Perigord and runs from June 7 until September 5, 2008.

It is open every day with free entrance and the Bistrot Verticalle on the ground floor provides a place to enjoy a chat about the artwork.

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