This poem is said to be the first Valentine written in any language. The spelling has been modernised. The translation is based on Charles d’Orleans’ own version.
A collection of P-O inspired haiku poems.
A new three-part documentary film on the “Disparues de la gare de Perpignan”, is due to be broadcast in early 2024 on TF1’s Grands Reportages program.
Ceramics, paintings and tapestries fill an exuberant Aladdin’s cave of artistic treasures in the old vaulted wine cave of Mas St Vicens in the Saint Gaudrique quarter of Perpignan.
An Elephant in my Kitchen. A chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve.
The latest exhibition at Céret’s Museum of Modern Art is devoted to 16 works by Antoni Tàpies (1923- 2012), to mark the centenary of his birth.
Over one hundred years ago, Rudyard Kipling and his wife arrived in Vernet-les-Bains…
When artist Bridget Rook-Waterhouse moved from Céret to a sea-view apartment at St Cyprien, she decided the only thing lacking was a mermaid on the terrace.
Inaugurating the new exhibition space Côté Galerie at the Musée d’art moderne, Andreas Ruthi’s colourful canvases speak of freedom and joy. Free of perspective and shadow, immersed in the joy of nature’s abundance, his dappled landscapes celebrate life.
FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY LE SOIR with Gill Storey In July I talked about various movements which arose out of Romanticism, but later poets took up the cause of Symbolism (also known as the Decadents).…