Mushrooms were such a hit with the pharaohs that common people were banned from touching or eating them.
Can you find the English equivalent of these French expressions which all use the verb ‘prendre’?
There are not many disadvantages to living in the Pyrénées-Orientales but the heavy winds that sometimes batter the region are worth knowing about. Three regional winds are the Tramontane, the Marin and the Sirocco.
Adapted by TF1 from a Spanish series ‘Monteperdido’, all 6 of the 52 minute episodes of ‘Rivière Perdue’ are filmed in the Vallespir between Arles-sur-Tech, Amélie-les-Bains, Céret, Prats-de-Mollo, and Le Boulou.
Did you know how the word ‘boudoir originated?
Did you know that the first cinema performance in the Pyrénées-Orientales was the screening of the Folies Bergères in the narrow streets of the promenade des platanes in Perpignan, in 1896? I
This French Christmas character, the ‘whipping father’, said to accompany Santa on his rounds on 6th December, is fortunately no longer heard of much in French tradition.
Trees used to be festively decorated with red apples until a drought in 1858 destroyed the apple harvest.
Lord Guillaume de Cabestany was a troubadour, soldier, poet, and lover of Saurimonde, wife of Raimond de Castell-Rossello and subject of many of his poems
Over one hundred years ago, Rudyard Kipling and his wife arrived in Vernet-les-Bains…