COTY: The Perfume Man
In 1912, visiting a relative in Tours, François Coty, the perfume man, fell in love with the Loire Valley.
The French Girl and The English Poet
In November 1791 Wordsworth popped over to France to see the Revolution.
Leave it to George
‘Leave it to George’ , a polite way of saying ‘pass the buck’, was once a popular saying in the UK and in America, however it originated in France.
The Last Valois King
It’s often hard to unscramble fact from fiction regarding the history of the French royal family. Not so in the case of the assassination of Henry III, the last Valois king.
Max Ernst and Surrealism
Max Ernst, the French Surrealist, died on his birthday, 1 April 1976. He loved the irony. It was, you might say, surreal.
Perkin Warbeck: The Pretender at Chateau Amboise
Anne of Beaujeu, Regent of France, invited a young man with the extraordinary name of Perkin Warbeck to the French Court at Château Amboise.