It is true. I love to Troc. We were driving around the industrial estate behind Casino supermarket in Carcassonne looking for the Orange Boutique. Googlemaps said that we were virtually sitting in it; then Trev suddenly remembered that Phil had said it was inside the red gallery. Anway, on our third sweep we drove past a Troc. Probably just as well I wasn’t driving because I would have just done an emergency stop; instead I shrieked out the usual three expletives/commands/directions-
“TREV! TROC! STOP!” so he did, sensibly and without alarming other road users 
Great shop, packed with French gems too numerous to photograph; though I was a little bemused by this entire section right of what was obviously dark polished wood 30’s furniture all stripped back to raw? mmmm…
I thought of my fellow restoration blog-nuts
Look at this achingly ancient and charming corner cupboard (I thought of JP’s authentic house )
Or this bed, which I imagined Osyth finding house room for whilst writing short but deeply layered stories set in a snowy Moscow winter
But I think that Piece of the Day prize must go to this Chinoiserie cabinet that I could see in Poshbirdy’s Maison des Oiseaux 
Blog-sur-Aude 
Very sweet. Love the birdy cupboard. At least you have now seen that I have something approaching a bedroom x
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Birdy cupboard quite stunning
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Reblogged this on hus i frankrike and commented:
We rarely reblog articles, but when a fellow blogger is looking up furniture for us it is worth reblogging! We are really looking forward to shopping around in all those cool French shops and flea markets!
JP
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I have never met you or your French house, but when I saw that cupboard I just thought of you!
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Thank you for my bed. I just need to claim it in person…. hold tight – I’ll be there and you shall be the heroine of the first Russian story it spawns. I shall call you Galina Koteskaya, I think ☺
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Magnifique! I can just see Osyth scribbling away under her duvet. 😀
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There’s another one that’s even better (I think the Troc’s prices are a bit high). La Trocante on Place Davilla. Also, the antiquaire between le Dôme and Square Gambetta has nice things, not too expensive.
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I thought the second place near Square Gambetta was a bit expensive. I think it depends what you are buying,
I saw some good stuff that was very fairly priced and some real bargains. Perhaps my tastes are a bit out there?
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I was looking in the window of that one the other day. It was closed, but looked promising
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I was going to take you there 🙂 I love that bed, I look at it every time I go in there, wish I had somewhere to put it!!!! I go there at least once a week on the look out for treasures 🙂
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I wondered if it was the Troc you told me about- We will go after the “fifth” together when work is a little less mad; there were a few things I nearly bought but Trev was getting a bit Trocced out….
You probably would not have minded me spending 45 minutes in the paintings section! He pretended he didn’t but………..
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