Upon hearing the word borne, some Americans would immediately think of the French card game Mille Bornes. Like competitors in a road race, players attempt to be the first to cover a certain distance, usually a thousand kilometers, or miles in the English-speaking world. Cards marked from 25 to 200 kilometers in earlier [...]
« Sur le pont d’Avignon, On y danse, On y danse… » Just about anyone who has studied French has, at one time or another, learned this famous children’s song. From the high vantage point of le Rocher des Doms , tourists are afforded a fine view of the remains of the [...]
Although other regions might dispute it, it was apparently in Languedoc-Roussillon where the idea was born in France to have a cooperative wine cellar. At the end of the nineteenth century a group of winemakers in a small town near Béziers decided to band together to save on the cost of facilities, equipment, [...]
