Picasso’s Guernica, McCrae’s In Flanders’ Fields, even Newton’s discovery of gravity… times of hardship give rise to great creativity and we’re sure that our current situation is no different! Each week we publish YOUR artistic offerings based on a chosen theme.
Doctor, specialist in the study of birds, beetles and tortoises, accomplished cellist…….
Enter the magical bestiary of Matthieu Malvoisin.
Are you a budding artist with a P-O inspired piece to share, either as an option for our next magazine cover or as part of another online exhibition?
Share your artwork with us at info@anglophone-direct.com
Marc Anfossi , Parisien writer, wrote this poem when he came to Amélie-les-Bains to take the waters in January 1912.
One of their great writers, Jean de La Fontaine, produced French versions of fables, in verse and with illustrations. There are twelve volumes, with stories such as The Ant and the Grasshopper, told with elegance, wit and verve, in simple French which is usually easy to understand today. Each teaches a lesson about our relationships with society.
P-O reader, Peter Spencer, has unearthed the story behind the monument in Céret, commemorating artists that have been drawn to the area and have links to Céret and the P-O. Part 1.
A bit about cuckoos, owls and French poetry!
Paul Verlaine often wrote poems that were simple and inexpressibly sad.
This adaptation of the famous Gothic novel by Matthew G. Lewis, ‘The Monk, a romance’ published in 1796, tells the tragic story of Brother Ambrosio in Catholic Spain in the seventeenth century.