Day of Grand Tripettes in Barjols (1978)
La Provence, c’est l’âne, le mulet, le cheval… mais aussi des bœufs. Découvrez le rôle essentiel du bœuf dans le mode de vie rural de Var, …
Author: Claude Boyer
Family harvests
Lei soldmi means harvest in Provencal. Claude Boyer gives us these memories. Head for the Puget on Argens (Var).
Red inn
At the evocation of the Auberge Rouge everyone immediately thinks of Claude Très-Lara's film as well as Fernandel confessing Françoise Rosay behind a grill...
11 June 1909, the earth trembles in Provence
The most violent earthquake that France experienced in the 20th century Photo by André Abbe On 11 June 1909 at 21:00, the Earth...
The Vespers Marseillaises
This name refers to « Sicilian Vespers" when in 1282 the French settled in Sicily were massacred and expelled from the island. On the port of Marseille –...
The Revolutionary and the Micocolier
At the gates of the Verdon between Sillans la Cascade and Montmeyan, you can reach the village of Fox-Amphoux perched in a hillside road...
The « masco » Old Provence
What Provençal never heard of masks, « lei masco », as they were called Photo André Abbe An ancestral belief Today no one...
27 January 1968, the Minerva no longer responds
La rade de Toulon-Photo André Abbe. July 2019, the wreck of the submarine the Minerve has finally been located. An old riddle of half a century The...
Stories of cattle in Provence
Provence is the donkey, the mule, the horse... but also the ox. Discover the essential role of beef in the rural lifestyle of...
Two brothers dead in the war
They are the brothers of my great maternal grandmother Jules Fabre – Photo family Boyer Family Archives Boyer Louis Fabre – Photo family Boyer...