I've just heard back:
Ateliers d'Or is a real school in Semur, and I had to look up reliure -- it seems to be book-binding?Merci pour votre réponse. Mon épouse se trouve pour l'instant à Semur où elle suit des cours de reliure aux Ateliers d'Or. Nous voulons passer une semaine à Semur en juillet parce qu'elle doit également suivre des cours pendant cette période.
Pourrait-elle visiter votre maison ce week-end ?
My first instinct is caution, because in the answer to his first e-mail, I explained that our kitchen is fully stocked because we are American and can't bring kitchen equipment with us every time we visit ourselves. Perhaps he just didn't read carefully, but perhaps he knows we won't be there and is asking for our address so his "wife" can "stop by."
His e-mail signature has an English/French confidentiality statement that makes me think he's a lawyer. And his signature also gives several telephone numbers: office, fax, home -- all based in Morocco. As far as I know that's a perfectly legitimate French-speaking country, not a scammer's haven.
We do have property managers in the area and I could arrange to have them meet her at the house, but I'm still not sure how I feel about it.
What would you do?