How the Clooneys seduced their new French neighbours... thanks to Amal's fluent French, a penchant for local salmon sandwiches - oh, and George's homegrown rosé!

How the Clooneys seduced their new French neighbours...

thanks to Amal's fluent French, a penchant for local salmon sandwiches - oh, and George's homegrown rosé! By Alison Boshoff for the Daily Mail Published: 01:15, 13 July 2024 | Updated: 01:15, 13 July 2024 e-mail View comments Recently hailed as 'the most beautiful village in France ', there is certainly much to recommend Cotignac. Historic and picturesque, its narrow streets shelter in the shade of a huge limestone cliff, where troglodyte caves are linked by a secret passage to a Saracen tower. A medieval boom town, during this period there were visions of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus, a hat-trick which made it a major place of pilgrimage — and pilgrims still come today.

But there are some new attractions in town. Hollywood A-lister George Clooney and his accomplished human rights lawyer wife Amal are quite the most sparkling addition to Cotignac which has a population of just over 2,000. Hollywood A-lister George Clooney and his human rights lawyer wife Amal are quite the most sparkling addition to Cotignac.

Pictured here with the local mayor Didier Bremond Amal and George's enormous manor house near Cotignac which the couple bought in July 2021 As Ganaelle Joly, the owner of the bakery Lou Gourmandises, sighs: 'Madame Clooney is tall and fabulous and very, very, beautiful. No matter who you are, you are going to look at her.' The couple, who share twins Alexander and Ella, seven, quietly bought a simply enormous.