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The yellow cruise... Traditions... 1944, Braise... Brillanne ride... The railways of Provence... The bell of Herepian... Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres... The bumpers of Provencal doors... - Vagabondages...
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Claude Boyer
The Yellow Cruise
On April 4, 1931, the famous Yellow Cruise of André Citroën began... the material had been tested in Meyruies on the Causse Méjean...
« In 2011, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Yellow Cruise, the Citroën Clubs organized an event at the Aven Armand under the auspices of the Giraud brothers, managers of the Citroën garage in Meyrueis and the grandsons of Mr. To commemorate the exploits of the Citroën teams who had dismantled the autochenilles to pass the Himalayas passes on the back of a mule, a 2CV was dismantled in front of the Speleo Station to have descended on the back of man by the tunnel and reassembled at the bottom of the cavity in the middle of the forest of stalagmites ».
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Jean-Pierre Serra
Traditions...
[...] I propose to share with the members of this group so endearing and this throughout this Palm week, each of the episodes of this series that I have entitled « Corso Fleuri–Mi-Care », to evoke one of the most typical and most striking traditions, which was one of the highlights of the life of our village, then of our commune ...
[…] We also find, as I pointed out in my comments, these ancestral decoration techniques characteristic of the Roquebruno tanks, perpetuated from generation to generation by all these passionate volunteers:
– the heather remarkably and regularly placed on the various sides of the tank,
– flowers to highlight the edges, or make patterns, whether in crepon paper (made during vigils) or freshly cut like carnations or worries,
– the ivy, patiently sewn leaf to leaf on jute cloth bags, before the staplers take over,
– the box, braided to realize the edges ...
But also, as we will see later, this heather flower, sieved and then glued to the subjects ... Not to mention, the originality, quality and details of the costumes of those who walked on the tanks ... This costumemaking work was also part of these shared evenings, each team in the greatest secret put a point of honour to create costumes adapted to the topic or theme chosen ...
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The suite is to be read daily on the site « Passadoc Group ».
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Philippe Natalini
1944... in the Braise near Digne.
Charged with the attack of a gas depot in Gaubert, a detachment of FTP (Francs-Tireurs and Partisans) of the Maquis « Faita » , arriving from Lambruisse, settles in the hamlet of Braisse [or Braisse] on the night of April 4 to 5, 1944.
On the morning of the 5th, two guerrillas, Quirillo March and Vittorio Lazaro – who had gone to Mezel to recover food – were arrested by the Germans. Tortured, interrogated, they reveal the presence of their comrades in the Braise. Since then, these two unfortunate people have disappeared.
The afternoon of 5 April at around 5 p.m., a group of 8e Brandenburg Company, German soldiers and the head of the Digne Sipo-SD (about 80 men) surrounded the guerrillas. A furious fight, obviously unbalanced, engages and will last almost three quarter of an hour.
Eight guerrillas managed to escape, but ten were killed. Six are captured, interrogated, tortured before being deported to Germany... few will return alive.
Pascal Puddu, André Bertolucci, Eugène Blanchard, Pierre Capus, Marius Lieutaud, René Marchand, Albin Roux, Roger Aharonian and Valentin Romana were among the guerrillas killed in the case, only eight of whom were identified. Although every precaution was taken by the occupant to keep the funerals of the victims of the Braisse at the Bourg Cemetery secret, a part of the population was unknown on Gassendi Boulevard during the evening of 7 April in order to pay them a final tribute, discovering the passage of the vehicle containing the ten coffins.
On the edge of RN 85, under the hamlet of La Braisse, a first monument was inaugurated a year after the events, on April 5, 1945. It was a simple wooden panel, with the following inscription: Remember! This is the place where on April 5, 1944, 10 guerrillas, loosely murdered by a ruthless enemy, died so that you could live free and better, dans A more beautiful country.
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Dom Puig
Walking in Brillanne, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
La Brillanne is a municipality in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, located about 350 metres above sea level, along the RN 96 and close to the A51 motorway, about 3 km from Oraison, 5 km from Villeneuve and 6 km from Lurs. The village offers a beautiful view of the Durance valley. La Brillanne is also known for its tulip fields, which illuminate the landscape every year in early spring.
A magnificent multicolor show that attracts many walkers. A festival of colours that also extends to the nearby town of Lurs. A crop for bulb production in the Netherlands. "Forward Fanfan the Tulip, forward Fanfan forward!"
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Alain Cathala
Railways in Provence
Did you travel in this type of machine?
When the pilot cabin is in the back or in the height, when it is just in front of the rails, as if we were the driver-viewer of the trip... it's beautiful! We swallow the landscape and its tracks...
I keep an excellent memory of a little trip from Bedarieux to Ceilhes, a trip I had offered to an 8-year-old boy on his birthday. The travel expenses, had been taken into account by the SNCF, visit of the carhostage, put in command. It was Kevin Albiol.
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The bell of Herepian
In 1985, the municipality of Georges Frêche decided to offer a bell at Notre-Dame-de-Tables Basilica to celebrate the city's millennium. This bell, still in place in the bell tower today, weighs about a ton and bears the name of Emmanuelle-Julie-Isabelle.
It was melted by the Granier foundry in Hérepican and blessed on 27 April 1986 during a ceremony presided over by Monsignor Boffet. It sounds for the Angelus three times a day and for Mass on Saturday night.
Text Benjamin Le Blévéc
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Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres in the Gard
... small village of the Gard (30) with its 3000 souls, proud of its stones and buildings with the past lost between the pages of history, organizes for some years a day of medieval character. The principle is simple: a family friendly village party.
In the shadow of the village's centenary towers and under the eye of the St. Lawrence, the public has free access to games for all, meetings and discoveries with knights and saltimbanks who will share their knowledge. Every year, Saint-Laurent returns to relive this day with the inhabitants of the village: through the voice of his herald, he shares a history of multiple mysteries that can be solved with the help of the public participating freely in games, questions, challenges, treasure hunt, which will allow them in the end .... But this is the end of the story. Then come write with us!
And in the evening, in order to finish this day in beauty, a meal in honour of St. Lawrence is organized! The famous grill of the Saint! What better than honoring this martyr by repeating his own words when he was chained to the subject of his torture:
– Not enough toasted, on the other side neither, not enough toasted....
...dix the mother-in-law of John's cousin, who heard Philip whispering in Sarah's ear that told her son the story of the saint told by his mother to the neighbor....
Who says food, says show and music and to dance all will meet for a folk ball!
[Text Guinevere Legende – This party is scheduled for Saturday 27 August 202]
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Giselle Prenot-Lorde
The bumpers of Provencal doors
[...] aEven today, on the threshold of the largest Provencal properties, in the shade of a cochère door, are revealed small forgotten jewels, overturned bronze hearts enhanced with lily flowers in relief, finely chiseled ogival roses, curved dragons, mouths directed towards the shell of Santiago de Compostela. Or even bumpers in the shape of Moorish round rings, hammered with dots and lines, dug in a burin, which make a nose to the ordinaryized series of bronze, copper and even cast iron of the industrial era. So many small wonders that restore all the influence of the Spanish iron tradition and the meticulous talent of the artisan companions who once travelled the roads of France and Navarre in search of masterpieces to make.
Source – Text and photos : Passion-Provence
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Guy Bouyer
Saint Raphael
Walk in the city ... and the port.
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Alain Pierre
The Day of Ours
« The Day of the Bear still celebrated in three cities around Canigou , sacred mountain of Catalans »
Read all about « Passadoc Group » – Tuesday, April 5.
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Alain Cathala
The Castle of Espic
... to Murviel-lès-Béziers – Herault
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Our Lady of the Snows
Charles de Foucault Chapel
Friday 1and April... It snows on the Gard.
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Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
Morning, noon and night... with the good bread from us and of course Marcillac!
Answer this Aveyron.
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Peyrelade
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Avignon
The Palace of the Popes
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Cannes
Cannes and its medieval tower of 45 meters, located at the castrated by the subject. Domine les Îles de Lérins, Sainte-Marguerite, Saint-Honorat. It is said that an underground part of the castle of the castrated to the monastery of the island of Saint Honorat... But nothing could be proved!
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Gilles Barattini
Parc de la Camargue
Juvenile flame « I want to run away... I want to leave... »
Gulf of Saint-Tropez
Creceral Falcon... Coaly... Cormorant and Goeland.
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Guy Bouyer
Saint Raphael
...about 1890.
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John Paul Dubroca
The port of Toulon
... in the 1890s [Photo by Jean Giletta – GeneProvence]
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Alain Cathala
Montpellier prisons
It all starts with a black and white image of the Palais de Justice de Montpellier
[...] taken in the early 1960s, or perhaps a little earlier.
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Montpellier again...
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Montpellier always!
In XIIe and XIIIe Centuries, troubadours like Jaufré Rudel, Bernat de Ventadour, Bertran de Born or Raimbaut d'Orange dominate literary Europe. And, of course, these poets express themselves in the language of the... as will much later Alain Péglion, Says Alan Pelhon !
He was born on 13 May 1946 in Nice and died in Nice on 3 June 1994; He's only 48.
A teacher, storyteller, poet and Occitan actor, he grew up in Coaraze, raised by his grandmother Sandrine who made him discover the Coarazi dialect.
In 1968, he participated in the Poetic meetings of Provence created by the poet and mayor of Coaraze Paul Mari (Alain Péglion has known him since his birth) and presided over by Jean Cocteau.
In 1970, he met Mauris, a singer and composer who put several of his poems into music.
André Abbe chose Vi devi parlar... and Monia Courchet-Biga answered him I need to talk to you...a beautiful duo... a sweet moment of poetry... A very simple moment...
(a poem chosen by Monia Courchet-Biga)
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