Pigeons aux Trois Herbes Sur un Lit de Riz

It was on a menu outside a pretty restaurant in Forcalquier that I first saw a dish called Pigeons aux Trois Herbes. I really wanted to go in and try their pigeon but we had already packed a big picnic in the car. So we drove on and lunched at the edge of a meadow in the lovely alpine countryside of Haute Provence. Later that summer I concocted my own Pigeons aux Trois Herbes and placed them on a bed of rice. But I still wonder about the taste of that dish in Forcalquier. One