Four hundred km south of Paris and 75km north of Lyon, the small city of Mâcon on the west bank of the river Saóne is the southernmost outpost of the French region of Bourgogne (Burgundy) and the capital of the department Saóne-et-Loire. A population of 35,000 swelled by two recently when we sat in a cafe on Esplanade Lamartine to…
