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Passadoc Gazette – No 134

The weekly 134

Marianne or Marie-Anne?

Present in all town halls and official buildings as well as in a large number of town and village squares, it is the symbol of the French Republic, the motto « Freedom, Equality, Fraternity » Made a woman; It's the icon of freedom and democracy... anyway, it's Marianne!

But why Marianne?

Maybe because of a song by Guillaume Lavabre*entitled Marianno's Garisou / Marianne's Healing (1792), written in Occitan only a few days after the founding of the Republic. Frédéric Mistral mentions it in his dictionary Lou Tresor dóu Felibrige.

In 1976, we discovered « on » music book making Puylaurens forever the occitan cradle of Republican Marianne and Guillaume Lavabre on « father » Marianne!

The historian Maurice Agulhon** recalls that at XVIIIe Marie-Anne – Marie and Anne – is very common in the working world and especially in the countryside; so it's a popular name that « glue » well to the regime then, a regime which also wants to be popular.

He proposes another way: Mariamne, ancient Jewish princess; but it does not divide between the popular Marie-Anne and the noble Mariamne.

Today, it is acquired: Marianne and the Republic are one! It was Abbé Grégoire, bishop and politician who, in 1792, proposed to the members of the Constituent Assembly that the Republic be represented. « as a woman dressed in the antique, standing, holding with her right hand a prick surmounted by the Phrygian cap or hat of Liberty« .

Most often, sculptor artists, painters, take as their role a woman of their entourage. The first to lend her features to Marianne was actress Brigitte Bardot in 1968.

– Where is our Marianne?

Patience... Here's one... is it yours? This one – on the Placette of Liberty***, right in front of Loubradou of the snoop – Watch the Republic!

Jeanne Monin

Research on several sites.
* 1755-1845 – Born in Puylaurens (Tarn) and died in Toulouse.
** 1926-2014 - Born in Uzès (Gard) and died in Brignoles (Var)
*** Roquebrune-sur-Argens

  • The Echoes of the Week
    August 10, 1944...
    A village corner
    Under the olive tree...
    On Thorame's side
    Lavender of Castellane

  • Passadoc

August 10, 1944...

Photo A. Abbe
79 years ago, three resistance fighters were shot by the Germans there, not far from Chanac (Lozère), at the edge of a road.
 
By car in April, I stopped, as I often do when I see a stele or monument, to pay tribute to these young men who died for our freedom.
 
The presence of their photo makes them close. They look at us, they're present.
André Abbe
 
 

A village corner

Every corner of the village is a little discovery, nothing is ever taken for granted.
 
 
– The house is at 2, right after the grocery store... You can't be wrong! The door will be open... I'm waiting!
 
When he arrived, the sun was already hot... He poked... waited... topped again... he sat for a long time on the little stone bench, across the street, right in front of the house... then, with a heavy heart, a bit bitter, he turned back.
Jeanne Monin
 
 
Photo A. Abbe

Under the olive tree...

Did you know that? The average life of an olive tree is between 300 and 600 years!
 
This olive, the quailberry, is small but delicious.
Produced mainly in the Nice region, these olives are perfect for salting, for eating aperitif and for oil production.
Here they are cultivated by my father François, and the family.
André Abbe
Photo A. Abbe

Maryse Laugier
I hope they're still here. It's so beautiful an olive tree!

 

Nadine Berenguier
Yeah, they're still there. They have grown well and have not been pruned in a long time...

Photo Nadine Berenguier
The olives are harvested, but the work is not done...
 
– We have to bring them to the mill! specifies Maryse Laugier

François Abbe
When visiting a modern olive mill, it was said that the same system was still used. Wood was replaced by metal.

This system is used when the olives are to be sold in jar and not for oil.

On Thorame's side

Photo A. Abbe
The search for greener pastures by the herd first involves a long walk through dry slopes.
André Abbe
 
– The picture is in Thorame. There's an altitude story: Thorame High is lower than Thorame Bass? Who please confirms? request François Abbe.
 
– Yes! confirm Maryse Laugier and Jean-Philippe Tinois.
 

Lavender of Castellane

Photo Maryse Laugier
  • Drafting Passadoc – Participants included:
    André Abbe
    François Abbe
    Nadine Berenguuier
    Jeanne Monin
    Jean-Philippe Tinois

  • Layout
    Jeanne Monin

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