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.
Are you assiduous?
Have you tasted syrup of pine cone à la Canigou yet?
Did you know that the word ‘saunter’ may originate from the French ‘à la sainte terre’ ?
Un médecin est convoqué devant le conseil de discipline de l’hôpital de Perpignan pour avoir insulté une infirmière.
Many people of ‘a certain age’ will remember all the fuss about the banning of Serge Gainsborough’s ‘Je t’aime (moi non plus)’, which only served to make it so much more popular.
The hunting season is open. Advice for staying safe when out walking or riding.
In the 12th century, Catalans already had a well developed sense of identity and pride
The painting, now hanging in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, famously shocked the bourgeois society of his time.
Travelling on the left was actually made official in 1300 AD, when Pope Boniface VIII decreed that pilgrims to Rome should keep left.