This article shows awesome pictures of the “Fête des lumières”in Lyon, a winter light celebration that happens every year. This year it’s happening from 7th to 10th of December, here’s the official website.
Lyon is a study abroad destination for Oregon students, so if you go during Winter term you would see this.
The other big new in France is the death of Johnny Halliday, compared to “French Elvis”.
He was a very big star who became famous at 20 and never left stardom. Click here if you want to hear my favorite song of his. I was not the biggest fan, but every French person knows at least one of his songs by heart.
Check also his version in French of “the house of the rising sun” in the sixties
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