Tours has an immense air of good breeding ? you have visions of portentously dull entertainments in lofty gilded saloons where everything is rather icily magnificent .

It is a reputation that Tours doesn't really deserve: it's a bustling urban centre, only an hour's journey from Paris on the TGV line, with a great many restaurants, bars and cafs, and, thanks to the student population, a lively nightlife. These factors, t...
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