From a city born among marshy islands to Flemish merchants, legendary giants, Louis XIV and a rather cheeky cannonball, Lille has quite a few stories to tell. Next time you walk through the cobbled streets of Old Lille, I want you to imagine something rather...
Textile fortunes, famous surnames, school aprons and summer holidays on the Opal Coast. This is a little history of Northern France — and quite a lot of personal memories. I didn’t discover Lille’s industrial families in a museum. I grew up around them....
What do La Redoute, Auchan, Decathlon, Kiabi, Pimkie and Promod have in common? They all have roots in and around Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing. And that’s rather extraordinary when you think about it. This corner of Northern France gave rise to some of the...
