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Geneviève Moreau est la mairesse de Choranche, et Laurent Drouot est son adjoint. Or, pour des raisons que je tente sans succès de compren...

Je suis persuadé que, dans la nouvelle France qu'imagine Emmanuel Macron , l' informatique et l' Internet vont jouer forcément...

Mettez-vous dans la position d’un touriste qui souhaiterait utiliser Google pour savoir s’il existe un camping dans la commune de Châtelus ...

Je me permets d’introduire un sens particulier du mot « trompeur ». Dans le contexte qui m’intéresse actuellement, un trompeur est une pers...

Tineke Bot sent me a photo of land at Châtelus, taken from their house in Choranche.                                                  ...

I have the impression that the following YouTube videos are composed of base-jumps from a site in Presles located above the Rochemuse esta...

Google's famous Street View gadget has been reprimanded, from time to time, for displaying roadside individuals who are easily identifi...

Just over a year ago, in July 2015, I stumbled in the steep staircase at my house in Gamone and had a nasty fall, bumping my head. Doctors h...

Maybe I’m exaggerating when I refer to these huge pieces of freshly-shot wild boar as medieval meat. You’ll have to excuse me. My h...

In French, the word for mists is brume . So, the new calendar that was invented in the wake of the French Revolution of 1789 invented the l...

Using drone images obtained by Hakim , I attempted to learn enough about the Final Cut software to put together the following short video:...

The sun is shining upon Gamone. Yesterday, on the slopes of Choranche, I donned my beekeeper’s clothes and attended the second hands-on ses...

Bob ten Hoope [1920-2014] One of the most interesting individuals I encountered when I came to live in Choranche in 1994 was the Dut...

My English cousin Roger Latton (on my paternal Pickering line) came to visit me last summer, with his wife Sue . An excellent photographer...

Following up on my previous blog post [ display ], I wish to tackle here the interesting questions of basic distinctions—both structural an...

There are no longer many old buildings in the village of Choranche. So, it’s a pity to see one of them destroyed by fire. The shabb...

In my blog post of 18 September 2013 entitled Country lanes [ display ], I indicated that the mayor of Choranche and his municipal councill...

I didn't hear the noise of the impact, but my photo proves that the catastrophe did in fact occur... this afternoon, at an undetermined ...

Here in the Old World, the rural landscape has naturally inherited a vast assortment of ancient and less ancient man-made features. This is ...

I've just heard that another base-jumper was killed this morning to the south of Grenoble, but I don't know yet whether it was at or...