Avignon
commune in Vaucluse, France
Photo: Jean-Marc Rosier from http://www.rosier.pro, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
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- yesterday
Record rainfall in Corsica and southern France leaves two dead as floods hit
Solenzara on Corsica's east coast logged rain totals that Météo-France described as without precedent for France and Corsica, while floods on Tuesday, 20 October, killed two people in Haute-Corse and the Bouches-du-Rhône.
- Jul 22
Mireille Mathieu turns 80: the 'Sparrow of Avignon' still has stage fright after 3,000 concerts
The French chanson icon, known as the 'Sparrow of Avignon', celebrates her 80th birthday on 22 July and admits she still gets stage fright before every performance.
