The directions for leaving CDG which is NE of Paris until you get to the A6 Autoroute heading south are pretty complicated and subject to change, so you are advised to use MapQuest before you come to get these.
However, once you get to the A6 Autoroute heading south, you should have a wonderful drive headed for the major city of Lyon and Marseilles. The highway is a toll route but it is normally very fast and has lots of laybys (Aires), many with excellent restaurants.
You pass by Fontainebleu, Auxerre, Beaune, Chalon, Macon, until you get to Lyons. Do not take the bypass that heads way out to the east of Lyons. Stick with the A6 into the middle of the built up areas and the toll route ends, after which you just follow the multi lane highway through the built up areas heading still for Marseilles and eventually you will reach the A7 Autoroute Peage and head south for Marseilles.
Once on the A7 you follow the Rhone, crossing it a few times as you wend your way past Valence, Montelimar, Bollene, Orange and finally to Avignon where you take the 2nd exit, Avignon Sud.
After you pay to get off the A7, you want to get onto the D973 heading eastwards for Digne, Sisteron and Isle sur la Sorgue and Apt .
After about 10 mins driving the D938 branches off to the right towards Cavaillon but you carry straight on going under an overpass and the road becomes the D22 signed still for Isle sur la Sorgue and Apt. Travel another few miles, you will see a sign to the left for our village, Lagnes. This will take you northbound through a very small village called Petit Palais, and you just keep northbound through this and after another mile or two you will come to a cross roads where you have to stop at the N100.
Cross straight over the N100 following the signs for Lagnes. Maybe less than 1 mile only, you will drive down a slight hill curving to the left at the bottom of which there is a turn to the right followed by another road to the right immediately after, followed by another turn to the right maybe 50 metres past that. At this 3rd road to the right you will see a signpost that shows Lagnes to the right, with a separate sign for the Auberge de Lagnes 20 yards up the road.
Take this 3rd road and you will be climbing uphill gently at first and then after you enter our small village, the road gets quite steep as you enter a very narrow street after going by an open area and the Auberge/Restaurant on your left. The very narrow street does a hard right turn followed by a left on quite a steep hill.
Just as you start to straighten out into a more open square by a church, you need to turn hard right (and I mean hard right) in front of our local tabac (on the right just past the photo below), the Cafe de la Fontaine. In fact, you pass between the front of the Cafe and 3 or 4 of its outside tables (if you go by our village water fountain, you have gone too far).
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You will see a small
beige sign for "Place du Bataillet" and you then squeeze through
a very tight entrance to our Place between the end of this Cafe and a
tall stone building (see above right photo).
Once through this narrow space and past the Exposition de Lavabo, the
narrow road will open up into a sandy/gravel open area where you can park
(this last bit is only 50 yards or so). Maison Noel faces you from the
middle of the 3 houses on the eastern side of this space (Place du Bataillet).
It is the dry stone faced building with light olive green shutters.