Le chassé-croisé des juillettistes et des aoûtiens’ describes the traffic chaos on the roads of France late July/early August
Do you know the meaning of Argelès?
Music for the sardane is played by a cobla, a wind band with double bass consisting of 12 instruments played by 11 musicians. Four of these instruments (tenora, tible, flabiol and tamborí) are typical Catalan instruments along with the more traditional trumpet, trombone, fiscorn and double bass. The makeup of a cobla never varies.
He’s mean, he’s smart, he’s fast, he’s agressive – and he’s blue.
La suette miliaire was a mysterious and contagious disease which caused intense sweating, often-fatal fever, ) were sudden, with death often occurring within hours.
Did you know that it is likely that tennis was first played in France?
Look out for ‘La Reyne de las Founs’, man made rock formation surrounding a source coming out of the mountain, forming a pretty waterfall and stream.
This winter, 2024, Chateau d’Aubiry will host ‘Les Splendeurs de Chine’, a theme park dedicated to Chinese culture, with 2,600 lanterns.
Marie-Thérèse Figueur was one of the few French female soldiers to enlist in the French Revolutionary Army and fight in the Napoleonic Wars.
When Jerusalem was captured by the Caliph Omar in 638, Christian pilgrims lost their enthusiasm for the long trek to the Holy City.