Un plaquage – a tackle
Une mêlée – a scrum
Une touche – a lineout
Une essai – a try

Une transformation – a conversion
Un demi de mêlée – a scrum half
Un demi d’ouverture – a fly half or stand-off half
Un avant – a forward
Un arrière – a fullback
Un ailier – a winger
Un arbitre- a referee

Flea market – Perpignan Every year, throughout November, the flea market which takes place every Sunday opposite the Palais des Expositions moves to make place for the Foire Saint Martin. From October 24 to November…

Dali on Camera A series of 11 previously unpublished photographs of Salvador Dalí have been discovered, taken by Dutch photographer Jan Adam Stevens in 1961. Twenty six years after the death of the eccentric painter,…

Many foreigners in France work ’au noir’ to make ends meet. High business charges really don’t encourage registration. A new government initiative means that anybody caught and convicted of working illegally in France can now…

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PO – La passion de l’ovalie with Frank Parkinson 2009/2010 Bill Shankly, the legendary manager of Liverpool Football Club, once said that “football isn’t a matter of life and death – it’s more important than…

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How times have changed! Famous writer Ernest Hemingway wrote in ‘Hemingway Finds France is Neutral’ in March 1937 ”I encountered no difficulties over crossing the border, and I am filing this dispatch just before hopping…