IF MICHEL ROCHEFORT AND Marc Lecomte had been asked 10 years ago about their interest in taking on an ailing house in the village of Saint-André-de-Cruzières (population 460, give or take) in France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, they would have almost certainly responded in disbelief with an emphatic “Quoi?”
In other words, “What?”
From their comfortable apartment in the center of Brussels—the vibrant capital city where both men were still working and actively involved in busy routines—the prospects of a rustic in Southeast
