Dr Tony Shaw

Émile Violet (1877-1975) was born in Clessé (Saône-et-Loire) and died in Mâcon: he was a writer steeped in the history of the Mâconnais area...

The Sex Pistols's Anarchy in the UK is today a most ironic title for a country which is now destined to right-wing anarchy: free trade,...

  With its Maison de la Mosaïque contemporaine and its Musée Paul Charnoz , Paray-le-Monial is mosaic city. What interests me far more is ...

The poet Louise Labé (1524-66) was born in Lyon and died in Parcieux. She wrote about the pain of women's love, and unfortunately the wo...

Émile Demaizière (1867-1929) was born in Beaune and died in Mâcon. He was a regional historian who lived in the house where this plaque is a...

Georges Lecomte (!867-1958) was born in Mâcon and was an art critic, an author of literary, historical and artistic studies, a novelist and ...

L'Arbre de la Liberation has, in a sense, two lives. The first plaque tells of the planting of the maple tree in September 1945 as a cel...

Interestingly, the British movie Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965) is called the rather different Ces merveilleux fous ...

Pierre Semard (1887-1942) was born in Bragny, so it is fitting that he should have this memorial in the place where he was born. Many other ...

Sennecé-lès-Mâcon's lavoir in rue Vrémontoise is one of two lavoirs which remain in the village. Weirdly, a sign in French alone says ...

The lavoir at Sancé was built by a man named Roch, and the date and surname of the mayor of the time are on a brick on the building: Philib...