Hebdo 117
Party in the village!
« Ah! That life is daily* ! »
Also, to drive away the gloomy days of cities and villages, from time to time we celebrate!
And all the pretexts are good: because it's a new year, because spring is coming, because hay is cut, because the harvest is over, because this is Christmas time... And when we're at the end of the year, we start again!
In villages, it is always an event that is carefully prepared.
We make sure that the old Pascal will still lend his field where will align the long tabbed for a meal taken in common; On the menu, it'll be pot-au-feu and the pots will glute all afternoon...
We have to organize the ball, the drink, set up the stage of musicians on the big square, hang the lanterns to the branches of the plane trees... When evening comes, we have a drink with the mayor... We take the opportunity to ask about the four-year project: « So, when are you building this covered market?«
– Picture of Epinal! Some will say.
Only nenni! It is for many of us a memory of last summer!
In cities, of course, everything has a different dimension; Lemon Party in Menton, Nice Carnival, Lavender Festival and tank parade – of which we talked here there are a few issues – attract many tourists. It is the cohue in the streets and among traders of regional souvenirs and products.
– What about our party in all this?
Patience... she's coming!
*Jules Laforgue.
Jeanne Monin – Research on various sites.
Fréjus party!
This year, Bravad will take place from 28 April to 1 May. Less known, less spectacular than the bravad of Saint-Tropez, it has the advantage of having as its setting the cathedral of Fréjus which has no equivalent to Saint-Tropez.
The uniforms in Fréjus have nothing to envy those of the Tropezians.
I chose this old photo of the Zouaves seen from the back to better show their panties and gaiters. If these zouaves are in fact Turkish, you will be indulgent. They wear panties identical to the color near.
Saint Francis of Paul, who came from Calabria, had saved from the plague the Fréjussians who each year show their gratitude.
Andre Abbe.
Fréjus Bravade, early 1900.
Marie-Odile Beraud
For several days, parades, dances, processions and masses gather all generations.
- The Echoes of the Week
The ladies of old
Lakes of Provence
Picking mushrooms - Exhibitions and conferences
- Readers' Mail
- The Library of Passadoc
The ladies of old
Jeanne Monin
The lakes of Provence...
The artificial lakes of Provence are at the lowest, it is discussed daily on television.
This was never seen on the shores of the lakes of St. Croix and Serre-Ponçon, Europe's largest freshwater reserve.
My concern for accuracy obliges me to point out that only the south bank of the dam is Provençal. The north bank is already Dauphinois, I say that for people in the Gap area who refuse to be provençal. The name of Serre-Ponçon comes from Löccitan « Ponchary greenhouse », the mountain in the shape of a point.
I'm getting away from the subject!
Just 30 years ago, we had organized a week of broadcasts from France 3 around Lake Sainte-Croix (Var and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) and the water level was particularly low. He was later raised high.
How far will the water level rise? What if he doesn't come up?
André Abbe
You have to be optimistic, he'll come back!
Lake Saint-Cassien rises... And then go down a little bit.
It should not be forgotten that these are hydroelectric lakes and that at times there are water releases; Others need more water.
I have always seen what seems paradoxical: Saint Cassian very low in February when it is very cold.
Maryse Laugier
Jean-Jacques Murat
– The same as in La Sanha de Mar is a canton that li diem « canto cigalo » What is the aim of this report?
– Even if in La Sanha de Mar there is a canton called « cicalo song » Who has to do with the insect, they never see the accumulation of two names of author KaN-T (for canto) and SiG (for cicalo), that Serre-Ponçon would not come from Serre e Ponchon (point, summit)?
Picking mushrooms
There are many lactaries and most are not delicious at all.
There are two variants of delicious. The picture of a beautiful orange colour and another, more rare, wine-like color. In Roquebrune, it is the "vinachu", I don't know if there is a French name.
As a teenager, I went to mushrooms on Thursdays, and in the evening I brought them – to make me four sous – to a broker who sold them on the Nice market. The ladies who were sorting separated the blood from the vinachous, each with his cage.
Nontron is less known than Opinel and Laguiole. It is the oldest closed knife in France, brass virole and pyrograved box handle. It is produced by three cutleries in the small town of Nontron in the heart of the green Perigord, in the north of the Dordogne department.
Mine is a Chaperon, the name is on the blade, which I had bought on the spot led by a friend professor d
In the cutlery's workshop, the Limousin dialect, north occitan, was still spoken 35 years ago. I didn't go back and I don't know if the practice of the language was maintained at a good level in Nontron.
The collection of mushrooms must be done with a knife, one must think about the next harvests and leave the mycelium in the ground, grubbing up is a scraping.
Andre Abbe.
Magali Bizot
In my low-alpine corner, only the blood and especially the saffrons were known as pinhets. I've never heard of wine... If anyone has a visual, I'll be delighted!
Mathieu BAim
Unless mistaken, the color lactate « wine » is not a delicious lactate but a blood lactate.
According to my book of mycology (and on Wikipedia!), it is considered best edible than the delicious, which is already very good.
Maryse Laugier
What a pleasure to go and get mushrooms hidden under the leaves or pine garns – pine needles... Like we might not tell Roquebrune!
I put them in a nice basket and not in plastic.
In the fall, I found roses from the meadows.
Régine Soyris
What a beautiful sight for the eyes when you find a « rodou »...
And what a pleasure to enjoy them afterwards!
On your calendar!
See you on May 6th
in Saint-Paul-en-Forêt
The history of the Middle Ages
A desire for emancipation from 1500 to 1823
Regional languages
and Projection commented
Everything about past shares
St. Paul's.
A reader questioned :
In issue 116 of « The Gazette » – subtitle « Getaway » – I noticed an apparent contradiction between two participants:
"Calèche," said the André Abbe
– Cut, corrected Michel Teychenné.
Which one is right?
Research Passadoc (various sites):
Scale : hippomobile vehicle of a very precise type: foldable hood, with four wheels, and four seats opposite.
So Michel would be right.
But we also read: at the beginning of the 21st century, « carriage » means « any car driven by one or more horses ». So André wouldn't be wrong!
This avoids a very unlikely zizany between Michel and André!
To write to Passadoc: romenzo2010@gmail.com
- Writing Passadoc – Participants included:
André Abbe
Mathieu Baiget
Marie-Odile Beraud
Magalie Bizot
Maryse Laugier
Marie Martin
Jean-Jacques Murat
Jeanne Monin
Régine Soyris - Layout
Jeanne Monin