Take a walk in Argelès in the footsteps of the Retirada on the ’circuit de la Mémoire’. to mark the 85th anniversary of the opening of the camp on the beach.
Elisabeth Eidenbenz was the remarkable Swiss woman who created La Maternité Suisse in Elne as a refuge for expectant mothers exiled from Spain during La Retirada and World War II.
Love and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey is available in paperback, the cover glowing with the colourful stripes so familiar to lovers of the Catalan fabric of St Laurent de Cerdans.
Walking the GR10 Trail in the French Pyrenees with Patrick O’Connell
Franco believed Sardane dancers were passing on coded messages with their feet!
History tells the facts – Art tells the story
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2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the exodus of the Spanish Republicans fleeing persecution from the Franco regime.
In the living memory of the elderly are brothers and fathers going off to one or other to war, and the stories of those who never returned.
French Mothers Mean Business Generous maternity leave, universal healthcare, subsidised childcare, state-funded crèches and écoles maternelles, and even a medal for raising a large family (yes, really – read on). France has long been known…