How was the unknown soldier chosen?
Did you know that Marmite was named after a French cooking-pot?
It would be understandable to assume that the word ‘bonfire’ comes from a mix of French and English……
If you drive in Spain — whether you live there or just visit — you’ve probably seen the coloured round stickers on car windscreens.
On 7th November 1659, the kingdoms of France and Spain signed the Treaty of the Pyrenees, which ended the 30 years war between supporters of Louis XIV of France and those of Philip IV of Spain.
Sometimes it’s easier to stay with an unsatisfactory bank, than to research and change to a different one, particularly if you have several accounts. It could be out of the frying pan…
Test your French with an extract from a classic, autumnal poem by Jacques Prévert
“Resusci Annie’ was based on an anonymous drowned French girl sadly pulled out of the River Seine in the late 1880s
His stage name of Le Petomane (loosely translated as “the farter”) rather gives it away!
Henry Shaftoe talks us through another architectural style, evident across the P-O: a sort of rough-hewn look that makes use of local materials: rough hewn rocks, huge pebbles (cailloux) and flattened bricks, (confusingly known as cayroux).