Englishman studying French in France finds them exotic The “villas mauresques” puzzle student of French language school

At the end of 19^th century, in Hyeres, architect Pierre Chapoulart, fascinated by the Maghreb, designed several majestic villas; the one he himself inhabited, “La Tunisienne”, all white and blue in its garden full of palm-trees, “seems to come directly from a tale of the thousand and one nights”, said a romantic englishman  who learns French in France at Elfca now.