Aucamville/Aucamvila, Tarn-et-Garonne.  Photo by Daurade For the 0% of the French population that only speaks Occitan, the Tarn-et-Ga...

Previously published on my old website. La Virgen de Montserrat, La Moreneta, "The Little Black", is one of the most celebrate...

You may have noticed in several posts of Christmas past we have remarked knowingly about the phenomenon of the Black Virgin or Black Mado...

Lately, I have been working on a longish inventory of representations of women, both secular and religious, in the south of France and e...

Lloret de Mar is mostly known as a kind of Cancun of the Costa Brava. A town of 40,000 whose population swells in summer with hordes of dr...