Passadoc Gazette - No 156

The Hebdo 156

A while under the duvet!

A time to stay under the duvet* Hey!

Body... If the word is old, the use of the duvet – as we hear today, that is, « duvet and duvet cover » - is recent. A sleeping mode that from the beginning delights young people and very quickly the younger ones because in the morning, in two steps, three movements, the bed is made!

Expression « Stay under the duvet » is also very current. She sometimes expresses an evil being... It's cold... It's gray... It's Sunday... We don't have morale... Anyway, all the pretexts are good to stay under the duvet!

Body : the word appears in writing (1154) first Listen. and coilte before becoming duvet Around 1680. The origin of the duvet dates from the Middle Ages; It is used mainly in Northern Europe: Germany and Denmark in particular.
« It was traditional to offer young married couples a bag filled with duck down or goose ». The gift was expected because it allowed to be protected from the cold when winter came. This bag is the ancestor of the duvet.

Currently, the duvet is slided into a cover chosen according to the style of the room. It even seems to be found in dots made in a light fabric... Luxury!

Jeanne Monin

*The Provençals say: So radassar at the leech!

Research on several sites.

The Echoes of the Week
Quiz!
Remembrance
Multilingualism
From agriculture to photography

Passadoc
The Library of Passadoc
Expo... And Romenzo!

Quiz!

Remember...

In 1977, I had photographed the inscriptions in Occitan of this imposing sign.

Nearly fifty years later, I see this moving photo I had forgotten... Miracle of digitization!

« Pereiras in Vivares

1850 ...600 inhabitants

1976... 60 inhabitants

15 houses still inhabited

30 holiday homes

30 houses in ruins or abandoned

Silence...

... and collection« .

Who among you recently went to Pereyres in Vivarais?

On the Internet, I found that the municipality had 50 permanent inhabitants in 2021, 4 inhabitants per square kilometre.

Sometimes I went back to Ardèche but I never went through Péreyres again.

André Abbe

Multilingualism

« Multilingualism is more than speaking several languages... This is the way to understand the diversity of the world. »

... theme of the lecture given on 18 January at the exciting Mundolingua museum in Paris. I know Parisian friends are reading us.

The fact of belonging to a French-Provencal bilingual family was a considerable contribution to my personal and professional life.

French and Provençal are similar to Portuguese and Spanish, but in fact they diverge in many areas!

– In Provencal We doubt, we relativize. Irony is never far away. The imperfect subjunctive is omnipresent. I knew people who had not attended the school very much who used it with great ease.

« Convinced that vengusses leu to my ostau, quessiam lo temps d'anar ai pinencs«

All the speakers of the Provençal are able to say it effortlessly!

Translated into French, it must be about that. You'd have to go to my house early so we could get some delicious lactaries.« ... But I'm not very sure.

– In modern French, It will be « You'd have to come early so we have time to get some delicious lactaries.«

In Provençal, it is a wish; In French, it looks like an order.

André Abbe

On Tuesday 16 January, this publication was resumed by Michel Feltin-Palas – author, speaker, editor in the weekly Express* – qui se définit ainsi:

– Je suis un amoureux éperdu des langues de France, le français comme les langues dites régionales !

* sans aucune publicité !

De l'agriculture à la photo !

Années 80… Mon père était allé faire un reportage, pour un journal agricole, chez ce couple qui exploitait une ferme à Sospel (au nord de Menton).

J’ai souvent constaté qu’il pouvait nouer assez facilement des liens avec les habitants et les agriculteurs de Provence. Pourquoi ? Peut-être parce qu’il avait été agriculteur… jusqu’à ce qu’il renonce à la vigne pour se concentrer sur la photographie, puis sur le journalisme.

On ne se lasse pas de voir Paul Goujon avec cette chèvre ! Encore un berger passionné par son métier.

FrAnçois Abbe