Art lovers are spoilt for choice in our beautiful region so which exhibions to visit? P-O writer, Ellen Turner Hall’s passion for art leads her all over the P-O, visiting exhibitions featuring some incredible artists, both living and long-departed, some famous, others waiting in the wings.
Du Bellay and his contemporaries, the Pléiade, frequently made use of diminutives (violettes, fleurettes, vermeillettes, oeillettes) to add charm to their poems.
In 2012, Albert Camus, Nobel prize winner and author of some of the greats of French literature, went under scrutiny for a photo in which he was smoking a cigarette.
Actions speak louder than words so good luck with this French idioms quiz, look out for the next one coming soon…and break a leg!
Ramon Faura at the Collections de Saint-Cyprien
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
The painting, now hanging in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, famously shocked the bourgeois society of his time.
Romer Kitching joins the long line of painters inspired by Céret
Love reading? Love the Pyrenées-Orientales? Why not combine the two? All of these books can be bought via the links or found in local book shops. Bonne lecture!
French poem about the River Tech, with useful vocabulary