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15 August 2021: Happy Birthday Sir Walter!!!

Today, 15 August 2021, is a keydate on the Scottish calendar. It is the 250th birthday of Sir Walter Scott, one of the most popular authors in Scotland and his popularity goes far beyond its frontiers. As one of his French admirers, I could not help writing a few lines on Scotiana today. How I […]

August 15th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Events, Scottish Writers & Artists Houses, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Celebrating the 250th birthday anniversary of Walter Scott

On April 16th 2021, I decided (at last) to fulfill the promise we made a few years ago to Sir Walter Scott during one of our unforgettable visits at Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders… […]

May 31st, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Kenilworth’: a strange blacksmith…

 

(Kenilworth by Walter Scott, French edition adapted by Emile Pech, Boivin & Cie Editeurs 1929)

Hi everybody,

I’m still reading Sir Walter Scott’s Kenilworth, greatly enjoying this travel back in time to Merry Old England in company of a colourful team of characters (*) and following with much anticipation […]

April 27th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Re-discovering Sir Walter Scott’s novels: KENILWORTH…

 

What a good idea, Janice, to have drawn our attention to Kenilworth, one of the famous historical novels by Sir Walter Scott. I’m a great admirer of ‘The Magician of the North’ and I’ve not forgotten our promise to read all his books when we visited his home at Abbotsford, I […]

April 14th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Behind Long-Loved Fables Are Great Stories!

Indeed, behind long-loved fables of gallants and fairy tales, are great stories, but … are they true?

Let’s take for example the fable about Sir Walter Raleigh, a very handsome gentleman, quick-witted gallant, who’s story is said to have laid down his cloak over a mud puddle when Elizabeth I, Queen of England passing […]

April 3rd, 2014 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Folk Tales & Mysteries, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment
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