Passadoc Gazette – No 96

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  • Quiz!
  • We talk a little, a lot, passionately... The collection of olives...
  • From Abbe's side. The Franciscan
  • The Library of Passadoc

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Giselle Penat-Lorde
8 liters in the 100, it's actually a little skinny.
If more than 20 litres in 2021, olive trees must be in their phase « restriction » This year, not to mention that the weather did not have to be particularly favourable to olive production.

Next topic of conversation with my farmers-producers in the Draguignan market!
Learn about the health of olive trees and annual olive production!
Take the temperature; They are always happy that they are also interested in their work and all their production (fruit, vegetables, olives ...). Natural thing about me because I never forget my peasant origins.

Remember also the collection of olives with my grandfather who had some olive trees on the plots of Sainte-Anne in Roquebrune. These trees survived the 1956 frost. And then they weren't picked up anywhere else. History of milling certainly for too small a quantity. However, olive jars were still made in brine.

What a memory when you see this famous bag spread out...
Always beautiful photos and delicious madeleines of Proust...

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The collection of olives...

Claude Boyer Remembers

[…] The day after our arrival we went on foot to the olive trees, my father pushing the cart with the equipment and lunch. Once on the spot, my mother put my sister and I on a blanket. I had the guard of my youngest who was beginning to walk and would soon have escaped and injured himself, the terrain being on the hillside and the earthy with a good height.

[…] I liked going to the mill, I still remember the sweet and smelly smell that reigned there.

Click... This is the whole story.

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The Franciscan

The francic? What's wrong? It is a language spoken in Lorraine, in part of Alsace and Germany.

André Abbe tells – in Provencal! – a little history of regional languages in France.

Click! Listen...

Giselle Penat-Lorde
A pleasure to meet André at the desk.
[...] A good immersion in « lengo nostro » and also the opportunity to see some of the faces of our Muyois neighbours in Roquebruno. The opportunity also gives us a little thought about the future of our regional languages, as Francis Cabrel: « Regional languages are victims of cultural genocide ».

I have « frequented » very close « francique » (the Luxembourgish francic/Lëtzebuergesch, the official language of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with German and French, the Mosellan/Moselfränkisch francic, both in Lorraine and in the German Länder of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, the Rhine/Rheinfränkisch francic ...) and the Alsatian of course. I didn't understand them too bad back then.
[...] There are a lot of differences elsewhere in all these dialectic words, already in Alsace, where there are several linguistic areas and where the dialect (historically speaking and if one is very sharp) is not really Alsacian: it is either Dalemanic (south of Outre-Forêt) or Francic (north of Outre-Forêt), two languages spoken by Almans and Franks, two peoples who invaded Alsace in the 5th century. The term « Alsatian » It appeared in France only after 1870 and after Alsace joined the German empire.

If we don't want to use the terms « German » and « francique », we need to talk about « elsässeditsch » (Alsatian German or German spoken in Alsace) as well as in German Switzerland one does not speak Swiss but the « schwitzerdütsch ».
En fait, ce qu’on appelle couramment l’alsacien n’est qu’une forme orale de l’allemand parmi d’autres (le badois, le bavarois, le saxon…) dont la forme écrite est le « hochdeutsch » ou allemand moderne – (explications données par des connaissances alsaciennes et figurant également sur quelques sites alsaciens). Je fus certes plus sensible et ouverte au « francique » qu’au bavarois !

Quelques errances sur des chemins éloignés de la Provence et du provençal…

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