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André Abbe
The Provençals...
... Seen by Gaspard Proust and Henri Pertus... Gaspard Proust, it's like Marcel Proust, or we like it very much or we don't like it at all.
In his show "Gaspard Proust tapine", which I recently watched on TV, he mocks the Provençals "absolute primitive" whose accent reminds of that of "Québécois with Mongolianism" and Marcel Pagnol with ringarde intrigues of blocked source. All this in the second or third degree, fortunately.
I'm not mad at Gaspard, who's the brand name for vagrant humour, but I cut off the TV that night. To detoxify me, I opened "Henri Pertus-the Happiness of Painting" the precious book of Gaston Malherbe, his son-in-law. Page after page, Pertus is the painter of humble and dignified provencal peasants who had been able to transmit to their descendants a preserved and harmonious Provence.
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The Carnations of Régine
The carnations produced by Régine in the 1970s and 1980s were sold in Nice.
Visiting its greenhouses during the production period was a pleasure of the eyes.
Floral cultivation has perished because of competition from countries where it is hotter and where labour is cheap. It is not very ecological to transport flowers between Senegal or Colombia and France. It would have been better to continue producing them on site.
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Alain Cathala
Bishop of Maguelone
In 1204, [...] the bishopric is in full power. It manages the fishing and salinity of the pond and the coast and houses a well fortified harbour. He is in constant contact with the Pope in Rome.
With few exceptions, Maguelone's powerful Chapter chose its bishops from its canons or from the regional clergy.
– Neither the Gregorian reform nor the crusade against the Albigens have profoundly altered the character of the local episcopate. Neither the Holy See nor the Crusaders have imposed here bishops of their choice... (Louise Guiraud).
In the flourishing times, the canons are more than 80 to which must be added « brothers convers » and « Oblates ». The « Claustral canons » were living in Maguelone and among them were « canons children ». At the head of the chapter some dignitaries: the « Provost » Three « archdeacons », « sacrist » and « locker room ». The « Provost » is the head of the temporal community and by delegation of the bishop, to the spiritual.
In 1208, the Archdeacon of Maguelone, Pierre de Castelneau is murdered in Saint-Gilles by a squire of Raymond VI of Aquitaine. This assassination will provoke the Pope's declaration of the crusade against the Albigois; During the Crusade, Maguelone remained inferodated to the papacy. Melgueil County then owned by Raymond VI of Aquitaine He was confiscated during his ex-communication and was entrusted to the Bishop of Maguelone.
Since 1163The bishop of Maguelone settled in a palace in Montpellier. The canons of Maguelone remain very powerful and very independent.
Source: Les Ouvriers de la Commune Fence de Montpellier.
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At our Catalans
The Castellers (Castle in Catalan) is a unique event in Europe recognized as a cultural and intangible heritage by Unesco.
Castellers are practised in Spain (Catalonia) and in the Eastern Pyrenees. One « colla castellera » is a group of people creating human pyramids of 6 to 10 floors.
Its origin : mid-19th centurye and early XXe century. Each team is recognizable by the color of the shirt. To validate a tower, the least heavy child must finish the pyramid by raising his arm.
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The Conqueror and the Monk
Witizasaid Saint-Benoît
Witiza was the son of Count Visigoth of Maguelone. Born around 750, he was raised to the court of Pépin le Short (son of Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne). He was dedicated to a life in the service of the emperor. But after a traumatic experience in a battle against the Lombards, he decided to withdraw from the world. He is admitted to the monastery of Saint Scene where he takes the name of Benoît. But he finds that the way of life of this monastery is too far from the « Benedictine fervor ».
He then decided to go home and found the Abbey of Anian – at the entrance of the gorges of Herault – his own monastery, whose monastic life he would organize around the rule of Saint Benedict. After a few years the monastery has a huge success and welcomes up to 300 monks.
The archbishops and bishops of the rest of the empire asked him to send his monks to instruct and spread this spiritual reform. From 787, Charlemagne took Aniane under his protection and granted him immunity.
Louis the Pieu will extend his reform to the entire empire.
The story of Gui de Gélone, says Saint-Guilhem
Gui was born from the high French aristocracy, he was also born around 750. He was the nephew of Pépin the Short and the cousin of the young Charlemagne. So he shared his education at the court of Pépin III with the young Witiza where they linked a friendship that lasted their entire life...
Gui was destined to be Count of Toulouse, Duke of Aquitaine and Marquis of Septimanie. It will be for posterity under the pseudonym of Guilhaume the Conqueror.
In 814, he died in the monastery he had founded for his retirement next to that of his old friend Witiza, the abbey of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, a little higher than aniane, upstream on the gorges of the Hérault.
It was part of the Guillihemides lineage, which was to found Montpeslier in 985, a century and a half later...
With such founding figures, the bishopric of Maguelone and the monasteries of the Herault Valley become mythical places of pilgrimage of medieval tradition during the IXe and Xe centuries, then the inevitable stages of the path of Compostela...
Text: Jean Pascal Girou
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Philippe Natalini
At the end of World War II,
... in the spring of 1945, the massif is defended by the 34e D.I. and German mountain troops cut off in a network of fortifications on a series of mounds:
– Fort de la Forca (2078 m), Redoute des Trois communes (2080 m), Fort du Plan Caval (1932 m) and Fort de Mille Forches (2042 m).
On 10 April 1945, the French units of there Free French Division (DFL), Pacific Navy Infantry Battalion (BIMP), mechanized elements of 1and regiment of sea rifles, supported by artillery and aviation, launched the assault on German positions from the south.
After difficult fighting, Fort de Mille Forches fell on April 11, 1945, followed by Fort de la Forca and Fort du Plan Caval.
On 12 April, the Fort de la Redoute des Trois Communes was stormed by a tank supported by five volunteer soldiers. At the end of a perilous ascent, Corporal Césaire Le Mercier, a Breton from the 1stand BIMP, enters the work alone and comes out with 38 prisoners. The whole German front collapsed on 24 April 1945.
Several hundred soldiers from both sides (273 killed, 644 wounded) left their lives in this battle, one of the last on French territory. It opened the way to the Italian ridges, and the French troops continued towards Piedmont in accordance with the orders of General de Gaulle. The latter wanted to occupy these territories in order to be in a position of strength to obtain border changes in future peace negotiations. This French positioning has led to tensions and clashes with American allies who want to prevent the dispersal of Italian territories by revanchard victors.
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Did you know?
.... 77 years ago, General de Gaulle made an official trip to Nice.
In order to announce the imminent offensive on the Alps, the general decided to go to Nice where he pronounced the famous sentence before 50,000 listeners: « The wind of victory blows over the Alps and goes over them« .
The day before evening, the GPRF leader had met in Beaulieu with the officers of there DFL (free French division), some of which were discontented that they had been deprived of the invasion of Germany to be sent to a front considered secondary, making them look forward to the invasion of the Po Plain. De Gaulle is received at the Prefecture and then at the Town Hall and flowers the plates of the hangers of Avenue de la Victoire (Torrin and Grassi). He told the Prefect that the reception of the Nice population had been the most enthusiastic he had attended since the liberation of Paris.
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Christian Belonne
Naughty spell!
– My father said a text mentioning naughty spell several times! I can't find this text. Does anyone in the band know?
And 21 Passadocians looked!
Magali Bizot, Dominique Tron, Jeanne Monin See it at Brassens, the Setois:
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Yes, but never, ever
Her hole in the water closed
One hundred years later, naughty spell
Still missing
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Click! So, all of us together, we humped « The Copains first » !
Giselle Penat-Lorde find a « naughty » at Philippe Blanchet's Familiar expressions of Marseille
and Provence (Ed. Bonneton):
Coquin of ~ [P] ~ [FRP]
Sense : Enters into the composition of many exclamations expressing surprise, anger, urgency, desolation. The Provencal form is pronounced « You know, you're... ».
Common supplements : spell couchin, noum couchin, node couchin, node couchin, node couchin, node couchin.
Origin : In Provençal as in French, a naughty, is (or rather was) a robber. So a negative word you can swear with. Where in Provencal I'm a squid! alone, or composed of multiple ways.
Jean-Pierre Serra Seems to have seen a « naughty » At Daudet's... in Tarascon Tartarin... And there he is!
Outside, the house looked nothing.
We never thought we were in front of a hero's home.
But, when we entered, naughty spell!...
From the cellar to the attic, the whole building looked heroic, even the garden!...
And many remember the expressions of grandparents. Thus Sabine Avois :
– My grandmother said... » Paleche neckline »... What in his intonation came close to naughty of fate...
Marie Dominique Germain questions:
– Don't you hear it in Alibert's song? « Our Canoe » ?
A song that we all sing again!
Click! ♫♪♪♪♫♫♪♫
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Jean-Pierre Serra
... One of the most typical and most striking traditions, which was one of the highlights of our village life, then of our municipality of Roquebrune-sur-Argens ...
Click.... To follow throughout the week!
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Philippe Levieux
Joucas
… a beautiful village etagged on a hill opposite the ochres of Roussillon.
True haven of peace, the village will allow you to enjoy its sumptuous landscapes
while remaining away from the tourist agitation of other Luberon villages.
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The green island garden in Saint-Raphaël
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Gilles Barattini
Cormorant
I pose for my photographer !
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Alain Cathala
Set
The Pascal Florès and Mircea
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Montpellier
The organ of St Peter's Cathedral.
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The ancestor of IT.
This Renault van provided mail to Montpellier in 1927. It has obviously been restored since then. I feared that the PTT letters would be anachronistic, but it turns out that no: the Telegraph Posts and Telephones took that name in 1921.
Text Jean Louis Jabale.
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Cross of Saint-Véran
... on commune of The Roque Sainte-Margurite (Aveyron, Gorges de la Dourbie)
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Maryse Laugier
Brianconnet
The Buis Pass, 1196 meters... Roman stone, the village and its Roman remains
and the view of the Clues of Saint-Auban.
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Patricia Triapat Gueirard
Brillane
A joy to be able to admire these beautiful tulip fields.
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Giselle Peinat-Lorde
Click! ... Simiane-la-Rotonde
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Jean Paul Dubroca
Saint Tropez
August 1912: the beach of the Ponche (Photograph by Léon Prat – 1851-1934).
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