Albi Local Customs

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Any news from La Pérouse?
There was no Internet at the end of the 18th century, neither VT, for getting online news from the travel world at that time. When Louis XVI, last of the Capet dynasty of kings of France asked this to the executioner upon walking up the scaffold where Dr Guillotin’s machine was ready to chop his head off, Jan 21st 1793, La Pérouse was probably dead since at least 3 years in the Pacific Ocean, near the island of Vanikoro.
La Pérouse, despite having grown up in Central France became an outstanding sailor and explorer, acknowledged (even by British researchers) as a “son of Cook”;
A link to an English page about La Pérouse: http://www.fullbooks.com/Laperouse.html, where you may learn more about this “son of Albi”, or this one, in French http://lemysterelaperouse.blogspot.com/. La Pérouse begins to be well known in France as, since a few years, a much publicised research is conducted, in the reefs of Vanikoro where the wrecks of the Astrolabe and the Boussole have been identified, and many remains have been brought back to surface.
Well, in Albi is a “Lycée La Pérouse”, a rue La Pérouse, associations with his name, etc. . . . . I like the unexpected, the people out of the norm, and smile, thinking about this great navigator, who has his origins far inland, had never seen a boat before the age of 20, but learned to know sailors, the winds, the oceans. . and became as skilled as the sailors from Bretagne or Great Britain (he trashed during an expedition in the Hudson Bay). But he did not spark off many navigation vocations in his hometown. . . . .

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I dont know what it was... was it just a unique painting/art or was it something to make a place more attractive but the longer I visited these towns in South France the more I found out that you find these masive paintings on walls, showing a 3D view...