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Hello, Mrs. Pauline...
September 1995... André Abbe, returning from transhumance, meets this lady:
– Do you mind if I take a picture?
Although a little surprised – we read it in her gaze – she simply accepts.
One is surprised by his shoes: they are of a brand that then wore mostly young people, teenagers. It doesn't really match the character. And for years, she'll be here. Converse. CoWe don't know anything about her life., We assume it Farmer or shepherdess... one imagines coming every week to flower the modest oratory, Maybe. to gather and pray to the Blessed Mother.
November 2023: the photo is again broadcast and Jean-Luc Laugier and Alumno Jean-Louis Recognize it!
– Cst Mrs Pauline Belleudy, in Rigaud [Alpes Maritimes], Today is dead. She had a daughter and was a grandmother.
More or less important, the cross-roads found on the edge of a village, at the crossroads of small country roads, on the hills or in the mountains, are frequent in Provence, as are the oratories...
Jeanne Monin
... a stop for believers, a den for others. Most often places of prayer, they have sometimes been set up to remind men that there was a tragic event or, on the contrary, a miracle.
Why was this oratory set up here?
- The Echoes of the Week
Mimosa
Ah! the scent of roses - Portrait Gallery
Mrs Augusta
Sir and Mrs. Tomatis
Mrs Mundet
Mrs Roux - Passadoc
Surprise!
Mimosa
Cover photo of the next bookAndré Abbe.
Mrs Augusta
François Abbe
Madame Augusta Escoffier was one of the last bugadières to come wash her laundry at the Maurette. This is no longer possible today because in recent years the stream is often dry...
Olivier, his nephew, tells
Sir and Mrs. Tomatis
The Tomatis couple managed the operation. André Abbe is returned to make pictures for a newspaper. The relationship between André and the inhabitants and farmers of Provence was different. Why? Because at the time André was still a farmer.
From the 1970s onwards, André gradually increased his activity as a photographer. He stopped farming in 1988. The family has grown from five hectares of vines to zero in a few weeks.
– We remembered the last bottle of sparkling wine. Believe me, she's too old for this kind of wine!
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Like André, like François and Claude, like Giselle, Jean-Paul and Jean-Pierre,
In short like many others,
share your memories, tell the life of your village in the time of your grandparents...
Or a trip, a landscape...
And whether they are before or today, send your photos and so participate in The Gazette !
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Mrs Mundet
François Abbe
This is Mrs Mundet. She was the only shepherd in our village of Provence. My father met him that day. She was the happiest woman in the world with her flock.
You see the field in the picture? He was so close to the village... Now he's turned into a college! It's college. André Cabasse the name of the former mayor. The sheep were replaced by students, the teachers replaced the shepherds. But the memories remain.
Jeanne Monin
A photo that tells a whole life that one guesses rough, harassing, a life of shepherdess. Did she travel miles of it leading her sheep from meadow to meadow and up to pasture, always paved with solid leather embroiderers and summer, always wearing a small straw hat whose sun ate the colors.
Giselle Penat-Lumb
I also have a doubt... the terrain of my memories was much more rugged; Maybe nearby in the Iscles and/or the Pres-Chevaux?
The family house gave east side, with the large terrace, on all these grounds of the Pres-Chevaux with at the bottom the plot of M. Mège, where was built the college André Cabasse. This landscape is certainly familiar but time again has done its work... obvious erosion of memory... and unfortunately I have no more talking archives with old photos of the 50/60s or even before.
Ah! The scent of roses...
François Abbe
Welcome to Fayence, in the Var (about 40 km from Grasse – Alpes Maritimes).
If the perfumers use the roses of our region, there is demand! Failing to send you a bouquet or bottle, here is a photo of a report by André Abbe at the Rebuffel in 1990.
Ingrid Porre-D-agostino Martinez
With Alain, my cousin I loved... The memories of this period are well developed, they are part of my childhood/adolescence; The sibling was always patient with me, they had merit, all there, including the grandmothers.
Mrs Roux
François Abbe
In 1995, André Abbe went with France TV film the fishermen of Villefranche-sur-Mer, near Cannes. He made this photo of Madame Roux repairing fishing nets, installed on the port near the boats. Patience, thoroughness...
Claude Boyer
I remember the fishermen who were ruining their nets on the port of Saint-Raphael before they had made the planched promenade, when the steeped bank of sharp dry was descending towards the port, that was in the early 1970s.
Jean-Jacques Murat
« Vilafranca de Mar pròchi Canas » : a la seguida de Cesar podriam torna « aquò depends on the grandor of 40 quilometers »
[« Villefranche sur Mer near Cannes » In plaging Caesar we could answer: « Depends on the size of 40 kilometers! »]
Surprise!
- These are cited in The Gazette :
André Abbe
François Abbe
AlumnoJean-Louis
Claude Boyer
Jean-Luc Laugier
Jeanne Monin
Jean-Jacques Murat
Giselle Penat-Lorde
Ingrid Porre D
Alain Santinelli (Photo)
Jean-Pierre Serra - Layout
Jeanne Monin