Early every Monday morning, barricades are assembled, des déviations (“detours”) are put in place, and a large part of le Cours, the main street in Bédoin, is closed down. A bevy of small trucks then trek in to town to set up le marché. As in every French city and town that [...]
When we were at the tourist bureau in Carpentras about a month ago, the young woman working there gave us a flyer of tours and lectures in and around the city. So, on February 26th, a beautiful day that was about 30 degrees warmer (F.) than on our last trip there, we caught the [...]
A couple of years ago our daughter-in-law Lorène started telling us about a writer of crime fiction she really enjoyed, Fred Vargas. Although I once read a reference to “him” in a book review, Fred is indeed a woman, born Frédérique Audouin-Rouzeau in Paris 1957. Trained as a medieval historian and archeozoologist, she [...]
