La suette miliaire was a mysterious and contagious disease which caused intense sweating, often-fatal fever, with death often occurring within hours.
Did you know that the word ‘-aise’ means “native to” or “originating in ?
An anonymous 12th century sculptor, the Master of Cabestany was not recognised until the 1930s when a Romanesque-style tympanum was unearthed during renovation work at the parish church of Cabestany.
A french classic and must-read for french learners.
We all know about ‘cowboy builders’ in France, but are the victims of these incidents sometimes the unwitting accessories of their own misfortune?
One of the first French words we learn in school is ‘bic’, for ballpoint pen.(Qu’est ce qu’il y a dans ta trousse?)
Whether you’re for or against the hunt, its presence is inescapable in the P-O.
In 1860 Abbé Rous, the new Curé at the Chapelle de la Rectorie, first tasted the naturally sweet wine of Banyuls and found it so good that he decided, through his network of Catholic contacts, to make it the communion wine of France.
Els Segadors (the reapers) was declared the national anthem of Catalonia in 1993 by the Catalan Parliament.
Did you know that most of us probably haven’t been eating ‘real’ pukka paella on our Spanish sorties?