Passadoc Gazette - No 127

Hebdo 127

Houses...

Some tell the story of a family or an owner... So, Louis, sailor in La Royale. He retired to the Moors, baptizing his house The Kerguelens : in stopover on these wild islands, he met not the desolation but the love of Isabelle, researcher at the CNRS.

Because this is the last house in the village before the big road, the house makes reference and sometimes creates the stumbling block of the tourist, who fails GPS, who asks his way:
– To join Cogolin please?
– It's easy: at the next crossroads you turn right, you descend to the « Kerguelen » And there...

Giving a name to its property is not new fashion but until the beginning of 19^e s., it is rather reserved for hobereaux: the plaque – expensive – is affixed not to the house, but to the gate of the park.

For the more humble dwellings, the grave mason or not the year of construction on the lintel of the entrance door.

In any case, the names chosen are sometimes singular: what may well mean « RECO » on the facade of this Mediterranean property? Only the neighbors know: these are the initials of the first names of the inhabitants: Romain, Enzo, Claude, Odile.
The tourist, on the other hand, seeks febrilely in the little lexicon that he carries with him everywhere, the translation of this word that he believes Provençal!

Humor is sometimes present: Samsuffy... Coastal shelter...

– Where is our house?

Patience... she's coming!

Jeanne Monin

Research on various sites.

Claude Boyer
« Here we are good »
« Make your way to the hour. »

It looks like Provencal, but no...
Recently on Passadoc, André Abbe evoked the linguistic cousinage that we share with our Piedmontese friends...

This photo has been taken in Tende in the Alpes-Maritimes department (Tenda en occitan, italien, piedmontais, brigasque et ligure)
Formerly part of the province of Coni, Tende was annexed to France in September 1947, following the Treaty of Paris.

Patrick Erard
– Of course it's Provencal, that's what we're talking about in Tenda!
Patricia Jouve
– It's from the occitan.

Giselle Penat-Lorde

– I remember this door and the inscriptions which had taken my full attention and which I must also have photographed (to be searched in the archives, on a rainy day); I am always attracted to the beautiful and old doors as well as the inscriptions of this style.

We went for a tour in Tende, during our stay in Saint-Martin-Vésubie in autumn 2020, a few days before the storm Alex, which ravaged everything, including the town of Tende.

Readers' Mail
The Echoes of the Week
Rove's goat
Bruère-Allichamps
The « Heritage Days »
The Library of Passadoc

A Passadocian :
– I have a picture of my grandmother in front of a 50s wood stove. And I'd like to tell her how to make mirabelle jams. How can I post them on the website?

Thank you! Passadoc is waiting for your archives, your texts, your memories!

Just send your photos, your writings to romenzo2010@gmail.com ...

Claude Boyer takes care of the rest and soon everyone will be able to read you on Passadoc-Facebook.

Rove goat

André Abbe
I recently told you about Aman Goujon and his black sheep. I had chosen a photo of a black lamb to illustrate my text. Here is a picture of Aman in person (right) holding a beautiful Rove goat two-coloured coat.

It was in 1975, shortly before his death, in front of a sheepfold in the Massif des Maures in Roquebrune.

These goats are used to lead herds during transhumance on foot.

Sometimes it snows in the mountains in October. At that time, these big and tall goats trace a passage through the snow that all the herd can follow.

Jeanne Monin
How was your friend?
Seeing him like this, you can't imagine an exuberant man, but rather a taiser... happy with her goats and only the calm of pasture.

Thanking you, he just raises his hand, that's his way of saying to you:

– Hello! Thanks for coming this far! Sit down...

... and he opens his bag, spreads a slice of bread and a piece of dry sausage, his way of inviting him to lunch.

It was his father who gave him this besace to his first transhumance, he was barely 18 years old. The leather is very tired, well scratched, well scraped, but it would not change it for anything in the world.

Late tonight, when the animals are parked in the shelter of predators, he will lie on the grass still warm with the sun, his arms folded under his head making him a pillow and he will look at the sky...

August is the month of the Persians, the time of the shooting stars; they will cross the night and he may think of the shepherd of Daudet* who responded to the young Stéphanette astonishing with this tracer light:

— What is it?

— A soul that enters paradise, mistress.

(* « Letters from my mill« ).

Unless he was the most joyful of the lurons!

Bruère-Allichamps

André Abbe
I like geography but I don't like mathematics.

However, in front of the column marking the geographical centre of France, Bruère-Allichamps in the Cher, in the Loire Valley, I thought:

– Something's wrong...

This ancient monument is no longer in its place. In 1947, France expanded the vast communes of the Brig and Tende, today in the Alpes Maritimes.

One day it will be necessary to move this monument one, two or three meters southeast.

This is to be calculated accurately. Mathematics is demanding. We'll have to divert the road from Bourges.

Christian Baudet
I think the AI should do this to us quickly... the calculations... And we could even have surprises...

As for the displacement of the « terminal » This is another pair of sleeves!... This is a decision to be taken at the national level...

Heritage Days

In Roquebrune-sur-Argens, we are already preparing September and the Heritage Days to be held on 16 and 17 « Work and days ».

In the hallsOubradou from the madness, Brian grabs the first photos of this extraordinary exhibition that will count several dozen.

An immersion in authentic Provence, its traditions and its art of living.

Note now on the calendars!

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Writing Passadoc – Participants included:
André Abbe
Christian Baudet
Patrick Erard
Patricia Jouve
Jeanne Monin
Giselle Penat-Lorde
Layout
Jeanne Monin