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A whole cheese!
Cheese... A story probably started over 7,000 years ago!
Its region of origin is not determined with certainty; Is it in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Egypt? We don't really know.
Old Pline, born in Italy, says the best cheeses come from the Nîmes region. We can't blame him! But did he taste maroiles? Munster? The little ash of Selles-sur-Cher? Nothing's safer...
Julius Caesar would have enjoyed the blue in Saint-Affrique, in other words the roquefort.
Big leap in time...
1217 : Blanche de Navarre sent two hundred cheeses from Brie to Philip II Auguste to offer them as a gift to the ladies of his court!
It is the monks who, in their monasteries, start working on refining techniques but the farmers are not left behind. And over time, soft cheeses will appear... with flowery crusts, brushed... with cooked pasta, parsley, ... Trapus cheeses or fresh cheeses... In short, today we have more than 1,000 different cheeses, there are for all tastes!
Abundance that makes Winston say Churchill (during the 39-45 War):
– A country capable of giving the world 360 cheeses cannot die!
... While in 1962 Charles de Gaulle declared:
– How do you want to govern a country where there are 365 cheese varieties?
– Where are our cheeses?
Patience... here they are!
Jeanne Monin
Photos André Abbe
In sheep's milk, there are more than a dozen, including the purchase of Mount Ventoux, the volume of Arles, the Roquefort of Aveyron, etc.
Relatively few cow milk cheeses... The bethmale of Ariège, the blue of the Causses, the echourgnac in Dordogne,...
She is the queen of cheese from the south of France: about thirty! The mouth of Banon, the goat of the Roque-sur-Perne – Vaucluse ... We're gonna stop there!
- The Echoes of the Week
The D.Day... And the football team!
Before...
What is this campanile?
Quiz!
The Butt
In the mountains
The D.Day... and the football team!
What is the link between the day of Liberation (D-Day!) and this black and white football team?
The photo shows the father of André, François Abbe (born 1906), at the bottom right of the Roquebrune football team in 1924, and his friend Émile Bresc is at the top left.
Twenty years later, on August 15, 1944, Émile Bresc arrived with the Americans; He liberated the village on 17 August 1944, discovering François' son and his wife Céleste, just born: André Abbe, the future photographer!
Claude Boyer
My father told me that on the day of the landing of the Dramont, the German batteries positioned at Vaucouleurs Castle were firing in razing fire at the sea. The fire was so nourished that the first shells made the mulberry branches lie down in front of the house and they did not have time to rise between two shells.
Before...
In August 1990, André Abbe immortalized tasks from the farm to the bastide of the Abbe family and in the countryside near Roquebrune-sur-Argens.
Le terrain où se trouvent les vaches n’était plus exploité en 1990 car André avait décidé de totalement arrêter ses activités de viticulteur. Il travaillait de manière quasi permanente pour France TV. Les vignes avaient été arrachées quelques années plus tôt sur ce même terrain. Une page se tournait : pour la première fois, un membre de la famille Abbe n’était pas agriculteur !
Claude Boyer
Pas agriculteur mais un moissonneur planétaire de photos…
Noelie Rebuffel Huys
Ça a été le cas de beaucoup de fils et de fille paysan… on disait agriculteur, viticulteur, maraîcher… Et ça a été la fin d’un monde… Pour ma part, beaucoup de regret même si la vie est beaucoup moins difficile…
What is this campanile?
Jean-Paul Dubroca and Olivier Ciamous ont répondu :
Avec certitude, il s’agit du campanile d’Aups !
Quiz!
The Butt
Pour tout savoir sur le boutis : une vidéo que François Abbe vous propose de regarder à partir de 2:10.
In the mountains
- Cited in The Gazette
André Abbe
François Abbe
Claude Boyer
Olivier Ciamous
Jean Paul Dubroca
Jeanne Monin
Noelie Rebuffel Huys - Editor in Chief
Jeanne Monin