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By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini
Published 2025
Madame Loîchet, one of our favorite maraîchiers (market gardeners) in the region, is a legend among produce lovers here. She inherited an enormous garden from her family, and from the time she was a girl just Manon’s age, she brought beautiful peonies, lilacs, and all sorts of vegetables to our market in Beaune from her plot right in town. As she got older and stopped coming to the market, she sold a bit less, and we transitioned to visiting her at her house. We’d show up to see her
