“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).
How and when to update your Carte Vitale
Did you know that the word ‘vaccine’ originally came from the Latin word vacca, or more common to us, the French word vache, meaning cow?
Many a Bac (equivalent of A-Levels) student has quivered at the sight of Victor Hugo’s name on the test paper… how will you fare with this 19th century poem?
October 2025 – Current rules, main exceptions, and upcoming/future changes for carrying liquids in hand luggage when travelling to and from the EU ✈️ Current Rules for Carrying Liquids on a Plane (France → England,…
Toussaint, Castanyadas, Armistice 1918 and how The Unknown Soldier was chosen, and poor old ladies of over twenty-five….
Did you know that “La Marseillaise”, France’s national anthem, was actually composed in Strasbourg in 1792, not in Marseilles as we might assume?
In many regions of France, the ritual gathering of mushrooms in the autumn , is a culture in itself.