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The French Alps – An All Year-round Destination

French Alps © Martin F@flickr CC-BY

The beautiful mountain ranges of the French Alps are a superb and well-known destination for anyone who loves winter sports with towns like Chamonix, Grenoble, Albertville and others attracting visitors from all over the world during the season. But these mountain ranges have so much more to offer tourists and this includes outdoor activities that take place all the year round.

The region is stunningly beautiful and of course with Mont Blanc as the focal point of the Alps, it is one of the most favoured mountaineering ranges in the whole of Europe. Lac Leman, the largest of the lakes is picture postcard perfect but so are Lac d’Annecy and Lac de Bourget where visitors can enjoy some of the best water sport activities they could ever hope for.

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January 29, 2012 - Great Brocante Fair in Rennes

January 21-22, 2012 - A Lovely Art Exhibition in Montfarville

January 20, 2012 - Kings ball in Cognac

January 19-21, 2012 - Fabulous Flamenco Weekend in Bordeaux

The hundred years war

The Romans in France and their legacy

January, 22 - Indoor Market in Saint-Lo

December 2011- 14th January 2012 - Wonderful Artists Exhibiting their Works in Toulouse

Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

This amazing artist did not have an easy start to life. He was shy and terribly near sighted which was a real handicap for him academically. At the age of ten, he had his very first drawing lesson as he had shown a great interest in this during his early childhood. He was sent to an uncle’s boarding school, the reason for this was that his father thought he might benefit from the academic advantage it would give him and he remained ensconced there for three years. However, he still continued to have trouble with reading and writing. Time was marching on and with him coming to an age when he needed to learn a trade, his family worried about his future.

Rodin threw himself into his drawing and enrolled into a government school for craft and design called the École Impériale de Dessin which was also known as the ‘small school’ as it was not as grand as the École des Beaux-Arts. He constantly visited museums where he took an enormous interest in antique sculptures. He also went to the Gobelins tapestry factory where he studied other aspects of drawing. It was in these early years that Rodin discovered he was very talented working with clay and showed the first signs of being an extraordinarily gifted sculpture.

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