For Soren, however, it was another famous French Canadian that inspired Gagne. “It was based on Jean Chretien,” Soren admits of the character’s less-than-authentic accent.

French snail grower and soap maker Damien Desrocher adjusts bars of snail slime soap for sale in his shop in Wahagnies, near Lille, France.(REUTERS) Foamy slime bubbles on to Damien Desrocher’s ...

Good escargot must grow wild. The great French snail was once so common that early-19th-century train companies hired women and children to clean them off the tracks so the trains could get a grip.

Matsusaka (Japan) (AFP) – Far from Parisian bistros serving up Burgundy snails, one Japanese man has figured out how to farm the slimy species -- a feat that has long eluded the French ...