Cabinet of curiosities
A cabinet of curiosities is a room or piece of furniture in which rare, bizarre and novel objects are kept or displayed. There’s no real connection between them other than the curiosity they arouse.
Did you know?
The apple became a patriotic fruit during the Second World War.
La Revue populaire, Montréal, March 1940, back cover
Schoolchildren gave their teachers so many apples in the 19th and 20th centuries that the fruit became a symbol of knowledge and education.
A traditional representation of the beginning of the school year
An unusual ladder
The ladders used in orchards have three legs instead of two. Their weight is thus more evenly distributed than it is in traditional two-legged ladders. This gives them greater stability.
Three-legged ladders at the Verger patrimonial de la Côte-du-Sud
Delicious idiomatic expressions
Several idiomatic expressions refer to fruits traditionally grown in the orchards of the Côte-du-Sud region. You’ll recognize them by looking at the images below. If you select them, you’ll learn the meaning of each one. Do you know any other expressions involving fruit?
