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Looking for volunteer work? Les Restos du Coeur is a French charitable association which provides food packages and free meals to the poor and homeless.
If you love a good hearty broth, with plenty of meat and vegetables, this traditional Catalan dish is the one for you.
The colourful Hotel Cortie in the narrow streets of pretty Thuir centre has been a hotel-restaurant and events venue for more than a century.
Tucked into a tranquil corner to the south of Canet en Roussillon sits Mas Baux, an authentic Catalan winery with an ancient link to the land.
Gift-giving season is just around the corner and the P-O is bursting with unique ideas for treating the ones you love (or yourself!). Please do support our advertisers where you can, they support us all year round!
C’’est Mardi matin, Prades rassemble bien
Le grand marché hebdomadaire
Sur la grande place, des stands face à face
Exposent leurs meilleures affaires
A marriage performed under French law is recognised in the UK so this gives you the choice of having the whole wedding, both legal ceremony and reception, in France. The civil ceremony is the only legally binding part of a marriage, although many follow it with a religious wedding.
French writer and poet describes the massacre as unspeakable, its wounds so deep that we dare not mention them, in this desolate poem, ‘Oradour’.
Famous French poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote Le Dormeur du Val when he was just 16, possibly based on his very real experiences of travel across France during the Franco-Prussian War
