Passadoc Gazette No. 120

The Hebdo 120

The grimoires...

Grimoire... A word that comes straight from the time spent, a word that would almost scare today still... Lady! At the beginning, there is in him witchcraft, well magic... and which he is called Lucifer or Belzebush, the devil wanders through his pages.

From antiquity, in Greece, in Egypt, in Scandinavian countries as on the outskirts of the Mediterranean, everywhere there are traces of magic and therefore grimoires. Julius Caesar is interested: Magic? It is a laborious work that requires more than twenty years of learning.

In the Middle Ages, « on » Book of witches; They use it to summon demons, to cast spells, evil deeds... Every good enchanter must possess a grimoire which – very often – consists of only a few sheets covered with cabalistic signs mixed with recipes of various potions, often based on plants, herbs, able to charm, harm or heal. (printing is in progress).

Around 1475, « grimoire » takes on the meaning of incomprehensible, incomprehensible discourse. Current dictionaries specify: written indecipherable, illegible, enigmatic, strange...

Today, witches are only in the picture books and magicians perform by bringing out white rabbits bloated in black-shaped high hats!

– Where is our grimoire?

Patience! He's coming! Don't worry, he's not evil!

Jeanne Monin
Research on various sites.

La consultation of old grimoires sometimes reserves surprises!

Fréjus swingers? You have a grivois mind!

It is an act of 6 April 1846 found in the departmental archives of Draguignan, with transcripts of the mortgages.

Two potter cousins in Fréjus exchange properties. Antoine Jehan and Honoré Jehan (and his wife Anne Emmanuelle Ansoldy) exchanged a building in the Saint-Pons district (a pottery factory, oven, dryers, bricks) for a rural property in the Hors district because the former retired from potter.

Jean-Pierre Violino

The Echoes of the Week

Sapian Homo sapiens
Charles of England
Nice
Rugby
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Homo sapiens sapiens

Since I know that nothing makes a woman different from a man, that it's only a matter of personal choice, that behind a man can hide a woman and vice versa, I'm looking for identification.

Who am I?

In the very interesting Museum of Hunting (neighborhood of the Marais in Paris), is a naturalized gorilla (formerly I said stuffed).

Selfie proves that there is a real resemblance between him and me. My genome and his differ by only 1.57%.

Bonobos and chimpanzees are even closer to us, the sapian gays.

Thanks to its 1.57%, I know I'm not a gorilla despite the resemblance, it's a certainty, it reassures me!

André Abbe

Charles of England

A Roquebrunois, Paul Fabre, had been invited to Elizabeth II.

An English lord stopped for a drink in his bistro « The Four Ways », at the edge of RN7 and had taken Paul in friendship. True story!

I don't think a Roquebruno is invited to Charles III's. I'd be right in there... I appreciate England, very disparate for me. I haven't been there in about 15 years.

I met François at the edge of the Channel on the Portsmouth side, enjoying a glass of brewed artisan beer at the corner of the street.

André Abbe

Claude Boyer
I remember that four-path bistro... The corner has changed... Like everywhere else.

François Abbe
King Charles is a fan of the French Riviera. What if he came to Passadoc's next general assembly?

Jeanne Monin
Will dust my royal capeline... if sometimes...!

Nice

The history of Nice is overwhelming.

In 1860, the city returned to France for the first time and was united with Provence for the second time.

But why not?

In 1388 Nice left Provence which was not (yet) French. At the dawn of the 19th century, Nice became French for a few years (Garibaldi was born French).

In 1860 Nice became French and found Provence by annexing the canton of Grasse... why the Var no longer flows in the Var department.

Do you follow?

160 years later, Nice and Provence found themselves in the South region.

South... An amazing name. South of what? Corsica is more south than we are!

André Abbe

Rugby

« For the honor, a film Philippe Guillard (2023).

I'll go see this comedy that's said the best if it's programmed not too far from home.
It is about Corrèze, rugby, bell tower spirit and the sense of welcome.
Daniel Herrero and Francis Cabrel, men of the great South, bring their voices to this film which I hope will be a long time to post in the theaters.

An old slogan once said « The Corrèze before the Zambezi« . On our TV news channels, there is no more question of the Corrèze than of the Zambezi (the name of the river country which gave the name of a country: Zambia).

This is unfair, I will never go to the Zambezi Falls, but I will return as soon as possible to Corrèze, formerly in Limousin, today in New Aquitaine.

Had I been in power, I would have associated Limousin and Auvergne in a new region, in the heart of the Massif Central.

I see that along the way, I abandoned cinema and rugby to devote myself to planning the territory!
André Abbe

Maryse Laugier
Daniel Herrero, emblematic figure of the Toulouse rugby.
I don't know Zambezi but I love the Corrèze!

François Abbe
Rugby must keep it! Daniel Herrero don't move, don't get old!

It's forr It's written [...]: to go towards one another.

Christian Bobin (writer and poet)—1951-2022).

Then write! Share your childhood memories... With words, paint the life of a village in the time of grandparents... Tell me about a trip, a landscape... Whether they are yesterday or today, bring your photos and so, participate in Passadoc and The Gazette !

Writing Passadoc. Participants included:
André Abbe
François Abbe
Claude Boyer
Maryse Laugier
Jeanne Monin
Jean-Pierre Violino
Layout
Jeanne Monin