For a story by Matt Saltmarsh on Brits leaving their French country homes...France, Saint-Siméon, approximately 250 kms. southwest of Paris, Patricia Mansfield-Devine, 46, a freelance writer, and her husband Steve Mansfield-Devine, 51, a freelance journalist and photographer, in the living room of their French home. May 8, 2009...Photo © J.B. Russell for the International Herald Tribune
