Passadoc Gazette - No 194

The Hebdo 194

The Mermaid Song

The mermaid song... Of course, we're thinking of Ulysses who wants to hear the bewitching voices of these creatures, half-bird midwife. They do not have a good reputation because by their songs they attract sailors to the reefs where the boats will break, after which they devour them. That's what Homer is talking about!

Andersen is more romantic... At 15, his little mermaid who lives at the bottom of the sea is allowed to discover the outside world... A storm is starting... A ship capsized... A prince falls by water and suffocates... Will he drown himself? Only nenni! The little mermaid saves him from a certain death and discovers the world of humans she would like to be part of to find the beautiful young man and, why not, marry him! After the story gets complicated... It's about a witch, a powerful philter who would rid the little girl of her fishtail.

– But what are these sirens stories doing in La Gazette?

It is because of the photo of a lamantine that André Abbe proposed!

Jeanne Monin

Claude Boyer
Lamantine...
Her name comes from her song comparable to a lamentation. In addition, when the females breastfeed, their breasts overthrew what has not failed to exacerbate the fantasies of sailors, such as Christopher Columbus's companions, who have been deprived of ladies for many months.

Singing, sweets, fishtail, a little imagination... And here's a siren!

The Echoes of the Week
Quiz!
Customs
Get out on Saturday!
Passadoc
Abbe

Quiz!

Research → Claude Boyer

Giselle Penat-Lorde
Auguste Escoffier, the great chef and ambassador of modern French cuisine throughout the world.

Memories of a TV show → History secrets (Stéphane Bern) quite recent about the great French cooks: Vatel, Lent, Escoffier. Three great figures of French gastronomy who put their talent at the service of the greatest...

Faces still well imbued in my hole memory, including that of the great chief Escoffier.

Jean-Jacques Murat
Dins aquesttime(1905-1935) of ribalhas, of palacis per quauquei cataus, lei vinhairons dau miegjorn se revoutéron mai d ́un còp ; Clemenceau, senator dau Var, lo 25 aoust de 1914, n

In this period of boom (1905-1935), palaces for some rich, the winemakers of the Midi rebelled more than once. Clemenceau, then senator of the Var, on August 25, 1904, added to the lies of Joffre, Messimy, Gervais, the culprits of the 15th Corps case (*) and therefore more than one "fusilla for example" ...

For a Escoffier dead end, a Clémenceau alley how much is missing of places, of avenues, of boulevard of the 15th Corps, Auguste Odde ...

(*The French army corps are noted in Arabic numerals, with Roman numerals reserved for the German army (Claude Chanteloube).

Customs

The return of police and customs officers to our national borders is envisaged. It's been at least 30 years since I saw men in uniform on the tops of the Alps, on the French and Italian sides!

In 1999, it was the donkey of a shepherd who had welcomed us to the Larche Pass. The presence of a telephone booth proves that the photo did not date yesterday.

I feel as comfortable in the Stura Valley as in the Ubaye Valley and in the absence of the police and customs officers, I do not realize that I am changing countries by crossing the pass.

[Text and photo A. Abbe]

Get out on Saturday!

Saturday, 12 October – Room Pierre Taxil Muy (Var)

At 3 p.m.: the association Acò m-agrado vous invite à assister à une représentation de « L’Homme-semence », une lecture illustrée du roman de Violette Ailhaud.

Il s’agit de l’histoire des femmes du village du Poil (Alpes de Haute Provence) en l’absence de leurs hommes partis à la guerre de 14.

Miquèla Bramerie, Violane Demange, Sylvie Martino et Véronique Moelle interprètent des chants en provençal, en alternance avec le texte en français.

AEdré Abbe :
Je ne peux pas dire grand chose du spectacle, je ne l’ai pas encore vu, mais j’y assisterai le 12 !

L'ostau Abbe

Cited in The Gazette : André Abbe – Claude Boyer – Jeanne Monin – Jean-Jacques Murat – Giselle Penat-Laborde

Rédactrice en Chef : Jeanne Monin