samedi 10 avril 2010
vendredi 9 avril 2010
LUNCH LITTERAIRE A QUILLAN
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Literary Lunch in Quillan - Sunday 18 April - 11:30am
There will be an opportunity to hear more fascinating insights into the years of Occupation in the Aude and Pyrenees Orientales on Sunday 18 April, when Rosemary Bailey returns to Quillan to give a talk (in English) at Le Brantalou Restaurant at L’Espinet Vacances. She will also be available to sign her books.
Details and reservations: for aperitifs and talk only, 11.30am start (7 euros) or including lunch (25 euros) from tony@lespinet.com or by calling 0468 208888
The lone memorial on the rugged stretch of road between Couiza and Alet-les-Bains puzzles many incomers to the region, not least because of the impossibility of stopping the car to take a look. It honours the memory of Lieutenant Paul Swank who had been parachuted in to aid the Maquis, a week before the liberation of the region in 1944.
The full story of the bravery of this young American serviceman, a promising literature student from Missouri, is included in Rosemary Bailey’s award winning book "Love and War in the Pyrenees – a Story of Courage, Fear and Hope, 1939-1944".
In 2006 Rosemary attended the annual ceremony on August 17 to remember Paul Swank who died during a mission to ambush a German convoy moving supplies out of Couiza. As a result she was invited to the annual reunion of the Maquis of Salvezines in Quillan. Just one example of how her painstaking, patient research unravelled threads of stories from the dwindling number of survivors from those years.
She acknowledges that ‘the black years’ remain a veiled history, much less readily discussed than the ancient Cathars. But recently she senses a thawing in attitude. The new generations, she says, are beginning to lift the veil on the painful, suppressed history of life under the Vichy government.
Rosemary Bailey, who has a home near Mosset in the Pyrenees, is also the author of ‘Life in a Postcard’, an account of her life in a mountain village, ‘Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with AIDS’, about her brother, Simon Bailey, and ‘The Man who Married a Mountain’ about the 19th century mountaineer Sir Henry Russell-Killough. ‘Love and War in the Pyrenees’, first published in 2008, won the British Guild of Travel Writers Award for best narrative travel book.
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jeudi 8 avril 2010
mercredi 7 avril 2010
mardi 6 avril 2010
LA MAISON REMY N'ASSUME PAS
Débordée par le succès de sa dégustation asiatique du samedi, la Maison Remy de Bastogne a dû fermer le dimanche de Pâques, faute de munitions.
LA REMORQUE DE LA PAPAMOBILE
Une vue exceptionnelle de la remorque chargée du transfert des Livres Sacrés, de la Nonciature de Sèvres au Couvent de Limoux.
vendredi 2 avril 2010
DANS LES PETITES RUES DE SINGAPOUR
Tel est le thème de la dégustation exceptionnelle que vous propose la Maison Rémy de Bastogne ce week end.
jeudi 1 avril 2010
ORVAL FOR EVER
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Départ demain pour les Ardennes, afin d'assister à l'AG annuelle de la très discrète "Société des amis de Godefroy de Bouillon". Cette manifestation aura lieu à l'Abbaye d'Orval.
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mercredi 31 mars 2010
DLM, IN MEMORIAM
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Les amateurs de littérature populaire se souviennent avec émotion des Editions DLM et de leur série « Héros ». Un petit ouvrage a été consacré dans cette collection à Dracula (Philippe Paygnard, 1995) qui, en un peu plus de 100 pages, fait un tour complet et agréable du sujet. Le roman fondateur, son auteur, les suites littéraires et cinématographiques, sans oublier le théâtre et les jeux vidéo. La mode est aujourd’hui aux « Bibles » et autres « Encyclopédies ». Mais nos amis de l’époque n’ont guère à rougir !
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