The Hebdo 196
Birds...
Whether they are cities, fields or seas, whether they fly from pages of a book or pop up screens, birds are part of life...
- The early morning ones, so talkative in the spring... They say they're getting married... They'll build a nest... They're gonna have kids!
- The sparrows of the streets... which tirelessly beak the invisible crumbs of which are dotted the city sidewalks...
- Red-throat, which closely follows the gardener... And the storks that deliver the newborns!
- The gravelots of the beaches, always in a hurry, moving only as a family...
- The geese that take Nils Holgersson away*The hero of our childhood readings...
- « Birds » "Alfred Hitchcock, so cruel when they attack kids and kids on the way to school...
- The one who shares the freshness of the wind and the dust of the sun that also paints Monsieur Prévert...
Paint a cage firstWith an open doorPaint thenSomething niceSomething simpleSomething beautifulSomething useful for the bird
* The Wonderful Journey of Nils Holgersson through Sweden – Roman by Selma Lagerlöf – 1906.
* Headband No. 196: Piceiche – Photo by André Abbe.
Research on various sites.
And then there's our tables!
« The shutters are half closed. In the dark, the mistress of the house puts on the table the cassolette, fraying with the drop of old armagnac. The guests then engage in a strange ritual. The head covered with a large towel, they grab a bird. A roasted ortolan. In silence, only the cracking of the bones resonates. »
Ortolans or grives:
By presenting this photo of a skewer of grive, I know I'm going to be unhappy. To be careful, I don't give the cook's name!
Lei turn... aco m-agrado!... [I like the grives!]
If any hunters read me...
- The Echoes of the Week
Required passage
We sing
The cowboy! - Passadoc
Required passage
This photo of October 1993 shows three enclosures. Sheep in the former must go to the « not forcat » where only one of them can pass at once.
Bernard Bellini operates a door that directs the sheep in the left or right enclosures, depending on the mark on her back. Each owner thus finds his animals when he returns from the mountain where they spent the summer and early autumn.
If three breeders have joined forces, a second visit to the « not forcat ». I use the Provencal name because I don't know how to call this installation in French!
Dalie Gues
– In the picture, I recognize my brother Jean Pierre, Julien...
Jean-Philippe Tinois
Crossing... we could also say « bottleneck ». It is useful for a lot in livestock farming: marking, sorting as here for belonging but also to separate the sick from the healthy, the young rams to castrate sheep, sometimes associated with a forced bath for external treatment (rather seen for cattle).
This technique allows us to know if the whole herd has been treated... So do vaccinations. It is a term and a technique that applies to many situations.
Jean-Jacques Murat
Cu saup se, per destriar lo monde, lo grande Sant Peire fa dau the same day a la pòrta dau paradise ... [Who knows if the great Saint Peter does the same at the door of paradise...]
We sing
André Abbe
Peire Pascal, who died in 2016 (left in the picture) is one of my favourite singers, not for the quality of her voice but for her texts. He has also translated into Spanish songs by Brassens that Paco Ibanez sings (right).
I found songs that my mother sang to me. « Cambo mi fa maou », « Tanto Cougourdeto », « Plou, plou la gallino »...thanks for these Proust madeleines!
Jean-Jacques Murat
Una votz rocassusas coma li sieu Verdon tumultuós, una votez clara coma leis estèlas que èera so much pròchi quara, per sei détz ans, fasciái lo pastre, una votz doça de breçarela per endurmir lo sieu beu drolin, una votez de chocaton pert dins la montanha dau Cheiron, una votez de darnagastant cantins l ́agrena de l ́iera, una votez dámoros per sa dona bela qu'embauma lo camin de sa vesprada ... (laamerico, lucian, aguessi lo gaubi, lei caulicatoun, la fueio, dono)...
[A rocky voice like his tumultuous Verdon, a clear voice like the stars to which he was so close when, for his ten years, he was making the shepherd, a soft voice of lullaby to sleep his little baby, a drunken voice lost in the mountain of Cheiron, a voice of pies singing in the plumer of l ́aire, a loveful voice for the beautiful lady who comes to embalm his autumnal path...]
Jeanne Monin
A voice of revolt when Paco Ibanez sings « A galopar« …
Hat!
– Is pagat lo capèu? (Did you pay the hat?)
This is the question that we ask, in a cordial tone, to a person who wears an extravagant, bizarre or outrageously chic hat.
To her to answer « Päs me under, camera » (Not with your sous, camel) or something like that!
At the end of Colorado (southwestern USA), I had photographed this man wearing a hat. « cow boy », backed by a wall of the bus station, in a very cinematic posture.
« Is pagat lo capèu? » ... I didn't dare ask him the question before I went back to my Greyhound.
Claude Boyer
Strictly authentic history:
Marcel le Béarnais had no morale, his career was at the bottom of the wave. He spent time at Georges L'Occitan's to discuss for a while, the two Passadocians being long-time friends.
No, but it's the most folAnd the most magnificentFrom the band to Eole
In short, the mistral
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Cyril R. Vergnaud
– which almost daily takes news of Passadoc
– knows everything about the life of André Abbe!
Andrieu Abbe foguèt jornalista, cronicaire, es un dels fondators del confraire nòstre Aquò d'Aquí, mas es tanben a testimòni fotografic dels important pel moviment occitan e per Provença in particular, dempuèi las annadas 70. Pel Diari es Cyril R. Vergnaud que seentreva de ne far un retrach-omenatge complet, eissit d ́un entreten amb l ́interessat e son filh François.
[Andrieu Abbe rocket journalist, columnist, is one of the founders of our confraternity Aquò d'Aquí but it is also a photographic testimony of those who are important for the Occitan movement and Provence in particular, since the 1970s. Because the Journal is Cyril R. Shame that he was involved in a complete retouch-commitment, it was an entertaining event with the interested son François].
Cities in The Gazette : André Abbe – Claude Boyer – Dalie Gues -Jeanne Monin – Jean-Jacques Murat – Jean-Philippe Tinois – Cyril R. Vergnaud.
Editor in Chief : Jeanne Monin
