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- The Quiz! … Little surprise with Friday quiz: some notes of music ♪♪♫♪
- We talk a little, a lot, passionately... A smile! Walk in the Luberon... Frédéric Mistral... Jean Giono... 78 years ago, on the Trets side... Why is Montpellier called... Montpellier?... When Pralon Street was creepy... The cave of Pida Saint-Gély... The first mimosa of France is cannois... The organ of Notre-Dame-de-Paris... When the sun plays hide and seek... The cigalo e la founigo... The rites of death in Provence…
- Vagabondages...
- Photos from yesterday
- The Library of Passadoc
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Click! ♫♪♪♫♪ Habanera... ♪♪♪
Modern staging... eternal notes
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Marie-Odile Beraud
A smile!
I don't care if your friend has a flight simulator. You're gonna learn how to fly for yourself.
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Philippe Levieux
Walk in the Luberon
The Saignon Rock is easy access, do not hesitate to climb to its summit, a superb panorama is offered on the Luberon plain and mountains.
In clear weather you can see the Mont Ventoux, the Montagne de Lure, the Alpes de Haute Provence and even the heights of Avignon!
Thanks to this rock, Saignon played a key defensive role for the city of Apt attacked centuries by numerous invasions... not yet touristic! Saignon is not yet well known, take advantage of it to enjoy the beauty of its landscapes and discover the marked trails that will lead you to the vicinity of Saignon and on Mount Luberon.
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Philippe Natalini
Frédéric Mistral
Frédéric Mistral was born in 1830 and died in 1914 in Maillane, Bouches-du-Rhône, at the foot of the Alpilles. Son of farmers, he heard only the Provençal language during his childhood.
At twelve, he met Joseph Roumanille, a young overseer who wrote poetry in Provençal. It is a revelation and the beginning of a long friendship.
Brilliant pupil, he obtained his baccalaureate in Nîmes in 1847, but nevertheless decided to return to the family farmhouse to take care of the land. After a year, he realizes that this is not his way. He then went to Aix-en-Provence to study law. He discovers the history of Provence, theatre, troubadours... and his vocation.
In 1854, together with six other poets, Joseph Roumanille, Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Giéra, Anselme Mathieu and Alphonse Tavan, he founded the literary movement Le Folibrig which advocates for the revival of the Provençal language.
Its motto is: Lou Souleu made me canta, either: The Sun makes me sing.
Mistral is the author of the Lou Tresor dóu Felibrige (1878-1886), which to date remains the richest dictionary of the d-oc language, and one of the most reliable for the accuracy of the senses. It is a bilingual French-Provençal dictionary, in two large volumes, encompassing all the dialects of the diocese.
His capital work is Mirèio (Mireille)published in 1859 after eight years of creative effort. Mirèio is a long poem in Provençal, verse and twelve songs, which recounts the upset loves of Vincent and Mireille, two young provençals of different social conditions.
Frédéric Mistral built his tomb in 1907, before his death in 1914: it is a very faithful replica of the Pavilion of Queen Jeanne des Baux-de-Provence. On the bell that rang the glass to announce his disappearance, a poem dated 1907, entitled Moun toumbeu. He was registered there a few days before his death. Moreover, when Mistral went to admire the sculptor's work in the church, he took cold and died.
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Jean Giono
...known writer Provençal, perhaps the most famous.
Jean Giono was born in Manosque on 30 March 1895. [127 years ago].
The Provencal setting constitutes most of the decor of his writings. The writer and scriptwriter draws from ancient Greece his style focused on the condition of man in the world and its universal reach. This convinced pacifist opposes the armed conflict against Nazi Germany, thus inciting accusations of collaboration against him. A friend of artists like André Gide, he would prefer to remain on the margins of the literary currents of his time. He died on October 9, 1970.
Some titles: Red... The Hussard on the roof... Strong Souls... May my joy remain... The man who planted trees...
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78 years ago, on Trets' side...
A group of very active resistors of the maquis of « Saint John of Puy » , have long led, countless actions against the German occupant in this sector of Provence (Bouches-du Rhône). On the night of 29 March 1944, the maquis received his first parachute of weapons, ammunition and support materials on behalf of the maquis of Plan d'Aups. This parachute has just been confirmed by the broadcast of a coded radio message: The beautiful four-leaf clover will soon be taken.
The men appointed to carry out this recovery mission, namely Paul Boyer, Justin Richaud and the Deleuil brothers group together and then hide the contents of fifteen containers dropped by an English plane, even though less than 1.5 km away, Germans are stationed at the peak of the Regagnas. They, intrigued by the noise of the plane, launch several flares obliging the brave guerrillas to dive flatly and interrupt their mission.
Weapons and ammunition recovered will finally be delivered by road to the Marseille patriots of the Maquis du Plan d'Aups on 7 April 1944.
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Duck plane!
Rightly named duck plane, the first seaplane was designed by a Marseillais and made its first flight on 28 March 1910
It is on the pond of Berre thatHenri Fabre, 28-year-old, for the first time tested his aircraft prototype. The aircraft – with a 15m wingspan and modestly equipped with a 50-horsepower engine – keeps all its promises by achieving this perilous flight!
A prowess for the time since this feat will take place only 7 years after the first historic flight of an aircraft led by the Wright brothers. The aircraft then made the first flight with take-off and landing in the water! A small journey, of barely 800m, but which will be a real victory for his inventor.
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Alain Cathala
Why is Montpellier called... Montpellier?
Nationalatlas, Hérault department (year 1877)
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In Montpellier: when Pralon Street was sore...
Very quiet today, the small street Pralon, which overlooks the Jaumes Square, used to write Pralong, by name, like a lot of other ways in the neighborhood, of one of the former owners of land on site.
Three press clippings [...] testify that Pralon Street has been one of the top places of debauchery and violence for a very long time.
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The cave of the potter district of Pila Saint-Gély.
During the excavations leading up to the Corum and Tram construction site one of the many caves that sank into the hill under the planade was rediscovered.
This area was home to many potter ovens and for centuries this cave had served as a « Industrial landfill » for generations of earthenware potters.
Archaeologists have thus been able to study the various productions of earthenware that have followed each other in these workshops since the 17th century.e century. There was even a gunball fired during the siege of the city in 1622!
Text Jean Pascal Girou
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The first mimosa of France is cannois!
Click!... And this is the story.
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The organ of Notre Dame de Paris
The building of the cathedral spans almost two centuries: begun in 1163 under the impulse of Bishop Maurice de Sully, the works were completed in 1345.
The catastrophic fire of 15 April 2019 destroys the arrow, nave, choir and transept. Fortunately, the organ is not seriously damaged, but it requires a major depositing and restoration work, part of which will be entrusted to Herault art craftsmen!
Click! ... Article 12 noon Free
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When the sun plays hide and seek...
On March 27, the sun passes just behind the summit of the Pic Saint-Loup (seen since the spiral). But that's not all. It then emerges from the other side and initiates a caress descent from the northern slope of the Pic. Relative caress because 150 million kilometres separates the sun from our favourite mountain. But the poet does not stop at these details.
I would like to know if there is another mountain on Earth where the sun plays the same turn. For details, you will notice that the cross of the Pic disappears as the sun passes and then reappears. This is an artifact due to the huge difference in brightness. This effect bears the name of a physicist, but I can't find his name, if someone has info, thank you!
Next meeting for the same show, September 14, 2022 and March 27, 2023.
Shared text and video.
Click! The Pic Saint-Loup
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Giselle Prenot-Lorde
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...and the fable of Jean de La Fontaine... Remember... Remember...
Source: All/How-Education
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The rites of death in Provence
[…] As soon as the last sigh carried away the soul of a dying man, the work was stopped (the essential tasks such as the care of the cattle were taken over by neighbours), then the windows were closed, the mirrors were covered with white tablecloths, the fire was extinguished in the room and the clocks stopped. Then the dead man was dressed in his most beautiful clothes, often the costume of his marriage which he had only given to the occasion of baptisms. Then we lit a candle at his bedside.
Click! ... The rest of this page.
Source : Blog de Nadine de Trans en Provence – « Passion-Provence »
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Patricia Tritiapat Gueirard
Valette... in the Gard
The Domaine d'Orvès is an arboretum and a Provencal garden surrounding a bastide of XVIIIe century.
It is classified by the French Ministry of Culture as one of the remarkable gardens of France.
Private, it is open to the public by reservation.
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Alain Cathala
Screw
In the Gard... The coat of arms of Michel de Montfaucon, Baron of Hierle and Marquis de Vissec.
Vissec Castle is listed under the title of Historic Monuments.
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The Cutlery
Templar city...
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Brouse it-Château
...one of the most beautiful villages in Aveyron.
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Gilles Barattini
Cormorants... Parc de la Camargue, Vaccares pond.
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Alain Cathala
Vailhauces – Herault
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Winemaker revolt in Occitanie
On 19 and 20 June 1907 Clemenceau ordered the arrest of the wine growers.
This act sets fire to the powders, in Narbonne the crowds interposes and the company of dragons load with sword horse in the clear then the troupe shoots in the crowd killing several...
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Gate of the castle of Espic
... to Murviel-lès-Béziers – Herault
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