Tag: So far so close
Notre-Dame de Paris, “everyone’s lady”
On the occasion of its reopening, a timeless journey in 3D audio to the heart of the most famous cathedral in France. From recordings made in 2013, in the daily…
Catherine Destivelle, a life at the top
On the occasion of the Dijon International Adventure Screen Festival, of which she is president of the jury, the French climber, renowned mountaineer and today editor, looks back on this…
Provence 1944: the other landing – So far so close
80 years ago, on August 15, 1944, an event took place in the South of France that would change the course of history. A journey through the Var in the…
Basa Ahaide in the Basque Country: where the mountains sing
Sound transhumance in Soule, the wildest of the seven provinces of the Basque Country. In search of a song that celebrates the wild and that only a few shepherds continue…
Once upon a time there was a House of Words
On the occasion of the “Aux Quatre Coins du mot” Festival in Charité-sur-Loire, visit before its disappearance to an astonishing pocket museum nicknamed the House of Words. On the station…
The museum of the history of immigration in Paris: the museum of a common history
For centuries, France has fought, built and reinvented thanks to and with its foreigners, its immigrants. This is a historical truth that the National Museum of the History of Immigration…
In the land of the Przewalskis – So far, so close
In Lozère, on arid high plateaus resembling Mongolian steppes, Przewalski horses have lived in freedom for 30 years. Travel to remote French lands to discover almost wild horses… The Causse…
On the path of pregnant virgins
We set off to discover an original path, traced by the photographer Viviane Lièvre and the French nomadic writer Jean-Yves Loude. Together, the two ethnologists set off from Puy-en-Velay to…
Vanoise National Park: wild hideaway
The first national park born in France, the Parc de la Vanoise, located between the high valleys of the Maurienne and the Tarentaise, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.…
Memory of slavery in Le Havre: “the time of silence is over”
New stopover in our series of trips on the paths of the memory of slavery, direction the port city of Le Havre; because little is known about it, but the…