Have you heard about ‘Les Barques de Cul’ (arse boats) of Le Boulou?
Desperate for a pee gentlemen but roadside or shop doorway not appeeling?
It is to writer Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703) that we owe the modern version of the fairy tale.
If you are treated to a blast of the emergency sirens which blare out regularly around the region, don’t panic or head for the shelters!
Tread carefully on your way up to the ski slopes this winter.
French journalist and fiction writer Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868 -1927) is best known for writing the novel ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra), first published in 1909
For some time now, SMS scams have been on the increase….
Le Pont du Diable – The Devil’s Bridge Many bridges built in medieval Europe were named “the Devil’s Bridge” as they were often amazing feats of architecture, built by hand with skills considered beyond human…
The guillotine continued to be used long after the French Revolution and was the only official and legal form of execution in France until capital punishment was banned in 1981.
The former ‘Maison Mazard’ in Le Soler, now destroyed, was a safe house for Dutch refugees, Jews and resistance members fleeing the nazis in the 1930s.