Beneath its tranquillity lies one of the darkest chapters in the department’s history..
The poor were starving to death on the streets of Paris. In the royal palace, the king’s breakfast consisted of 4 chops, a full chicken, six poached eggs and a slice of ham, washed down with a bottle and a half of champagne.
Here, in these lonely ruins above Valmanya, Julien Panchot and his men prepared for the liberation of France, believing they could not be found.
In the shadow of the Canigou, collaborator Nessim Eskenazi would play a decisive role in one of the darkest tragedies in the department’s wartime history.
Working alongside the Gestapo, they hunted Resistance members, persecuted Jews, and profited from violence until justice caught up with them after the war.
Romer Kitching has established himself as one of the most talented contemporary painters in Roussillon.
I have chosen at random three of the new exhibits….
10th June 1944. One of the last two eye witnesses to this terrible massacre gives a meticulous account of that tragic day, filmed in the ruins of the village
O’Leary radioed London with the message “Pas plus de bateau que de beurre au cul!”
Normandy’s coastline remains one of the most powerful reminders of World War II