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Byline: Richard Alleman
When British hotelier Peter Lawton, former manager of the stylish Samling in England's Lake District, decided to strike out on his own in France, he bypassed Provence and headed for the still-unspoiled Languedoc in southwestern France. "I love the sense of space here-and the history," Lawton says. "You still feel you are making discoveries."
Lawton's greatest discovery was an ancient former Benedictine monastery at the edge of the village of Camon, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, that he and his interior-designer wife, Katie, transformed into one of France's loveliest new small hotels. A ...