Avenue du XVe corps
Photo André Abbe The cities of Fréjus, Toulon, Nice, Saint-Raphaël to name but a few have an avenue of the 15th body But what is this...
Author: Claude Boyer
Incredible story of Martin Bidour shot twice
Jean Louis Ferdinand MARTIN was born in Barjols, Var, on August 24, 1825. He is the son of François, a long sawer from the Apinac region.
Marital shirt
Cut in a rather rustic canvas, it was not to facilitate relationships between spouses, such was the barbaric night costume of our forefathers....
PLM employee
Genealogy holds surprises. Claude Boyer discovered a relationship with Marcel Pagno's childhood friend Lili des Belons. But family history...
The strange history of the Cagots
A very painful affair Towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, in 1706, in Lialores, a small hamlet north of Condom in the...
A troubadour went
Joan-Pau Verdier was born in Périgueux in 1947. He studied at the Faculty of Arts in Bordeaux. An occitanist and libertarian activist, he was a...
I met a wild child
But I'll tell you about it after the more famous story of Victor, the wild child of Aveyron popularized by Truffaut. If you go through the village of Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance...
The fate of these three Varoese grandmothers
Three new portraits of women from Provence. « They're only two in this photo of the Méridional of October 1960, but I'll tell you about...
Play with city names
With 36,000 French municipalities, it is almost compulsory for French and foreign cities to bear the same name. We picked up a few, if...
Var : my grandpa hairy 14
On the front from the beginning of the conflict My grandfather was performing his military service at Mount Faron in Toulon at the time of the declaration of war....