France’s influential scrum-half is set to be the face of the Rugby World Cup but he has not forgotten his roots in the Pyrenees
The Hotel Dupont had been sitting empty for more than a decade. Situated at the heart of Castelnau-Magnoac, a village at the foothills of the Pyrenees, a 90-minute drive south of Toulouse, the establishment was owned and operated by Antoine Dupont’s family for several generations before being closed in 2012.
Looking to restore the restaurant to its former glory – its fame notably came from a distinctive duck magret recipe introduced in the 1970s – the local council renovated the building and re-opened it under a new name, La Taulada.
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