Thank you France

[Pacion]

for giving us:

- wine with gas (champagne)
- the little black dress (Chanel)
- faux (fake) jewellry (Chanel)
- the French novelist Propser Merimee on whose poem Bizet based Carmen
- Monet

(please add to the list and if you know a country well, please start a "Thank you" thread )

 

[Phil Owl]

Great chocolate

Interesting progressive/experimental music like Magma, Minimum Vital, Ange, Moving Gelatine Plates and Eskaton to name but a few.

Claude Debussy

Maurice Ravel

French Impressionist painting in general