Tag: So far so close
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…
Dark night in the Cévennes
At night, it’s a territory, a world in itself where the 2,000 km2 of the Cévennes National Park gain in immensity, mystery and sound. Exploration with slow steps, at night…
Sharing the mountain – So far so close
Since mountaineering or winter sports such as skiing have developed in the Alps and elsewhere, it is clear that the mountains have become the terrain of deep inequalities. An area…
A story from afar – So far so close
Constantly pushed back, the limits of the known world have always fascinated and worried the West. Conducive to the imagination and to travel, these places were first of all strange…
The Calanques in the heart – So far so close
At the gates of Marseille, in the rocky creeks and narrow valleys of the Calanques, we go to meet all those who survey, defend and love this land and sea…
Titaÿna, the woman with the soles of the wind
New episode of “Compagnons de voyage”, our series of portraits of travel writers. Discovering a woman in a hurry, but forgotten: Titaÿna, icon of the Roaring Twenties and the only…