After visiting Cahors and the Lot for decades, I love discovering so many new things with you Betty! The Old is grand and the New is much merited! Brava for being our willing guide!
As the previous one, a fantastic, fun and very informative article! I love food markets like Les Halles. I knew nothing about Cahors before reading your first piece about it, I am so grateful for this second one, and I am looking forward to the third one. I did not know Henri Martin, and I loved his work shown in your piece, and what a story about that mural! I had no clue that Léon Gambetta was a “Carducien” (and I love that word as much as Lorraine Tilbury, who wrote the first comment, does. 😊
I'm so glad you liked it. It was harder to write than the previous ones. I almost didn't include the mural story because I thought it was getting too long, but now I'm glad I did if only for your feedback!
The museum is really worth it, and there were many other artists that I would have liked to mention. I was at the market on Wednesday so it was a smaller version, but it gave me a good feel for it.
Great article! Looking forward to reading more from you. And love love that you use the French name of the Cahors inhabitants, "les Cadurciens". The French language has the most incredible words to name the inhabitants of towns like Cahors and elsewhere. Have you noticed that the local press loves using them? 🙂
Yes, and there's a word for that type of name: "le gentilé." I've decided to use these names in all of my posts -- much better than "residents, inhabitants or locals." I think every single French city, town or village has a special name -- not sure it's the case for all places in the States?
Interesting the word "gentilé", my husband knew of it but I didn't. The inhabitants of our region are "Ligériens" (the Latin name of the Loire is "Liger")
One of our favorites is the name of the inhabitants of St Pierre des Corps, a suburb of Tours. They're called "corpopétrussiens" ! My sister likes to call that town "St Peter of the Bodies" 😁
I had no idea! When I was at Stanford-in-Tours, my “semi-host-family” lived in an HLM in St Pierre des Corps. It was quite the experience. We stayed in touch for a long time and unfortunately are not anymore. I remember that to get anywhere from Tours, one had to change trains at St Pierre. I can still hear that SNCF announcement “Saint Pierre des Corps…Saint Pierre des Corps…deux minutes d’arrêt.” If a student was too hung over from his or her evening in Paris, the student was off to Bordeaux. Fortunately, this never happened to me.
Haha that did happen to me! But not from a hangover, I was just also and missed my stop... Also took the wrong train once in Paris and it was going to direct to Bordeaux, so I whizzed past my stop. It was the last train so I had to spend the night in Bordeaux. There are worse places to get stuck in! 😁
What a fascinating portrait of Cahors. I've visited quite a few towns in France on long meandering summer holidays as a child. But I don't think I've ever had the pleasure. So thank you!
After visiting Cahors and the Lot for decades, I love discovering so many new things with you Betty! The Old is grand and the New is much merited! Brava for being our willing guide!
I’m wondering if I lucked out with Cahors, or if my other destinations will be as fascinating. Time and trips will tell.
As the previous one, a fantastic, fun and very informative article! I love food markets like Les Halles. I knew nothing about Cahors before reading your first piece about it, I am so grateful for this second one, and I am looking forward to the third one. I did not know Henri Martin, and I loved his work shown in your piece, and what a story about that mural! I had no clue that Léon Gambetta was a “Carducien” (and I love that word as much as Lorraine Tilbury, who wrote the first comment, does. 😊
I'm so glad you liked it. It was harder to write than the previous ones. I almost didn't include the mural story because I thought it was getting too long, but now I'm glad I did if only for your feedback!
Lovely investigating Betty, I’ve never visited the museum… perhaps this summer I will take time to do so Et Le marché, j’adore! Un de mes préférés !
On other subjects… this weather! 🥶X
The museum is really worth it, and there were many other artists that I would have liked to mention. I was at the market on Wednesday so it was a smaller version, but it gave me a good feel for it.
And as for the weather...bah humbug!
Great article! Looking forward to reading more from you. And love love that you use the French name of the Cahors inhabitants, "les Cadurciens". The French language has the most incredible words to name the inhabitants of towns like Cahors and elsewhere. Have you noticed that the local press loves using them? 🙂
Yes, and there's a word for that type of name: "le gentilé." I've decided to use these names in all of my posts -- much better than "residents, inhabitants or locals." I think every single French city, town or village has a special name -- not sure it's the case for all places in the States?
Interesting the word "gentilé", my husband knew of it but I didn't. The inhabitants of our region are "Ligériens" (the Latin name of the Loire is "Liger")
That was just a question on Le Jeu de Mille Euros. My husband and I didn't remember! Shame on us!
One of our favorites is the name of the inhabitants of St Pierre des Corps, a suburb of Tours. They're called "corpopétrussiens" ! My sister likes to call that town "St Peter of the Bodies" 😁
I had no idea! When I was at Stanford-in-Tours, my “semi-host-family” lived in an HLM in St Pierre des Corps. It was quite the experience. We stayed in touch for a long time and unfortunately are not anymore. I remember that to get anywhere from Tours, one had to change trains at St Pierre. I can still hear that SNCF announcement “Saint Pierre des Corps…Saint Pierre des Corps…deux minutes d’arrêt.” If a student was too hung over from his or her evening in Paris, the student was off to Bordeaux. Fortunately, this never happened to me.
Haha that did happen to me! But not from a hangover, I was just also and missed my stop... Also took the wrong train once in Paris and it was going to direct to Bordeaux, so I whizzed past my stop. It was the last train so I had to spend the night in Bordeaux. There are worse places to get stuck in! 😁
I really enjoyed reading this Betty. Planning on a binge read of all your posts soon. Hope all is well with you, Bests from South East Europe.
Ha, there aren’t that many of them! 5 so far and number 6 going up at the end of the week. It’s great fun but a lot of work, as you know!
What a fascinating portrait of Cahors. I've visited quite a few towns in France on long meandering summer holidays as a child. But I don't think I've ever had the pleasure. So thank you!
Thank you! I live less than 2 hours away and hadn't taken the time to have the pleasure myself! It's a fascinating place.