A festival to promote local Wine and Gastronomy

Toques et Clochers.

Toques et Clochers is an annual gastronomy festival in AudeFrance dedicated to the celebration of Chardonnay production in the Limoux wine area, sponsored by the Sieur d'Arques wine cooperative.

It has taken place each year since 1991 during the weekend of Palm Sunday in the area of Limoux and Saint-Hilaire. A group of local wine producers and a famous chef organize a sale or auction of wine. The money raised is used to restore the church in the village that organizes the festival.

The event's name refers to the tall hats worn by chefs (toques) and bell towers or steeples (clochers).

Every year it's in a different place, this year it takes place in Pomas, it is during the « Rameaux » week-end by the winemakers of Sieur D'Arques, Toques et Clochers is a big manifestation to promote the different terroirs of Limoux.

There are lots of people that go to Toques et Clochers every year , it's during the month of april April.

by Marina and Bethany

Europe and Space

Space City in Toulouse

The space city is a place where you can discover the outer space.

The city is located in the town Toulouse.

It is a cultural place which attracts children and adults as well.

The city is located 2 hours out of Quillan.

2 cinema

In the city, there are 3 restaurants, a playground for children. There is also a huge cinema, 2 planetariums and a maze. There are also exposures about the outer space and the weather report.

 

Marianne

1- Description.

Marianne is the icon of the French Republic. She embodies the motto of France : « Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ».She is present in all of the townhall of each cities and in the officials buildings of France .

2- Origins.

Marianne comes from the first names Marie and Anne which were very popular in the 18th century and a revolutionary song of the region of « Albi ».

3- Symbols.

Representation	Symbols
1-Phrygian cap	Slave liberated in antiquity
2-Crown	Invincibility
3-Bare chest	The nurse and the emancipation
4-The brest plate	Power
5-The lion	The courage and the force of the people
6-The star	intelligence
7-The triangle	equality
8-The broken chains	liberty
9-The hands crossed	fraternity
10-The beams	authority of the state
11-The scales	justice
12-The hive	work

4- Coins and stamps

Since 1789 (The French Revolution) Marianne has appeared on the French coins and stamps.

« The Liberty leading the people »

On this painting by Eugène Delacroix, we can see Marianne : the allegory of the Liberty.

WOMEN AND SCIENCE- Marie Curie

Marie Curie.

Marie Curie was born on November 7th 1867 in Varsovia. Her father was a professor of mathematics and physics and her mother was a teacher.

She's from Poland and went to France and met Pierre Curie ; she married him  on 26th July 1895. And she even hesitated to accept his marriage proposal !

Did you know ?

She's the first woman who won a Nobel Prize of Chemistry.Marie Curie took the place of her husband because Pierre Curie died in an accident in 1906. She was the first woman to become a professor of general physics and radioactivity.

M.C and P.C  discovered Radium and Polonium, thanks to this discovery they received the Nobel Prize in 1903.

Albert Einstein was a great friend of Marie Curie, when she died, he said « Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whose fame has not been corrupted ».

From our point a view.

Marie Curie was known for her Great Science. She did lots of discoveries like radium and polonium. She is extremely famous in the whole world.

She helped women in getting jobs because she was one of the first female to have a job.

And proved to the people that women were as skilled as men. -Bella Mckenna

She was in touch with with other famous people like Abert Einstein.

Thanks to her, today there are a lot of other women who play an important role. She is important for  all women on this dayof  « Journée de la Femme »on the 8th of March 2016.

Even now that she is dead. 

byMarina Müller

The poster of « Journée de la Femme » for 8th of March 2011.

Marie Curie is the first woman who received a Nobel Prize, but what is more interesting in this woman is that she even received not one but two prizes, the first in colaboration with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and the a second alone. Today we talk about her like the most intelligent woman and now she represents the history of science. 

- by Félicia Ho-a & Plume Lefèvre.