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Mistress of the marché

By her own account, Kathryn Rupp’s passion for all things French began in high school. Quite possibly with her first French lesson. But certainly, by the time the Albury French teacher was 15 and went as an exchange student to Lyon, she was well on the way to being an avowed Francophile. Little did she know that it would be the start of a life-long love affair with the city, and that it was where she would meet her future husband, Jean-François.

Regular readers of Australian Country will remember J-F, or Jeff, as his Australian friends have nicknamed him, from our

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