Enter the magical bestiary of Matthieu Malvoisin.
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Marc Anfossi , Parisien writer, wrote this poem when he came to Amélie-les-Bains to take the waters in January 1912.
One of their great writers, Jean de La Fontaine, produced French versions of fables, in verse and with illustrations. There are twelve volumes, with stories such as The Ant and the Grasshopper, told with elegance, wit and verve, in simple French which is usually easy to understand today. Each teaches a lesson about our relationships with society.
P-O reader, Peter Spencer, has unearthed the story behind the monument in Céret, commemorating artists that have been drawn to the area and have links to Céret and the P-O. Part 1.
A bit about cuckoos, owls and French poetry!
Paul Verlaine often wrote poems that were simple and inexpressibly sad.
This adaptation of the famous Gothic novel by Matthew G. Lewis, ‘The Monk, a romance’ published in 1796, tells the tragic story of Brother Ambrosio in Catholic Spain in the seventeenth century.
The latest exhibition in Céret Museum is devoted to the modern tapestries of an eclectic artist.
Céret composer Déodat de Séverac was born in Saint-Félix-Lauragais, not far from Toulouse, in 1872 and moved to Céret in the Pyrenees-Orientales.
