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Tourism The Cevennes mountains
Tourism The Cevennes mountains
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 It was the country of Camisards. Huguenots of the Cevennes wore the white shirt the night as a sign of recognition from where the name “Camisard”. But the History of the Cevennes had its bloody hours when the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, causes prohibition to practise the “reformed” religion. Such of the tracked animals, pursued by the dragons of the Marshal of Villars, shepherds, carders of wool, sweet chestnut pick-ups, the common peoples prophesy in the world “the freedom of conscience”. The broken relief, the mountains and the valleys impenetrable but familiar, are natural shelters where are held of the secret assemblies… Some names of camisards chiefs: Roland, Jean Riding, but also of martyrdom: Marie Durand. These wars of religion inspired by famous writers, such as J.P Chabrol, André Chamson, J. Career, Michel Jeury, of scenario writer: Rene Allio and poet: Marcel Pagès, but also of villager like the middle-class man Durand de Massane in his “Book of Reason”. Saint-Germain-of-Calberte, place chief of canton, tells you his history In Mialet, with the Farmhouse Soubeyran, the Museum of the Desert recalls this part of the History of the Cevennes.  On the slopes: Chestnut, majestic and proud “the breadfruit tree of Cevennes”. The sweet chestnuts, ensured the daily subsistence of the mountain dwellers: all was used. The sheets were used as fodder with the sheep and the goats, of litter to the pigs… Wood was employed with the manufacture of the frames, pieces of furniture and barrels. The sweet chestnuts were sometimes dried in the “clèdes”, were consumed in the form of soup” the bajanot “, sometimes were fresh and roasted” the affachado “. The chestnut regressed with the profit of the holm oak, the maritime pine and in altitude of the white oak and the beech. Some rare mulberry trees are still fixed on the “bancels” (bands of usable airfield on sloping grounds).  Formerly very widespread, the mulberry tree, imported tree of the East by the Cross ones with the XIII ème century, were the prosperity of the Cevennes. It was for this reason called “the tree of gold”. Its sheets nourished the voracious caterpillars which were stored in magnaneries. After change of the worms in cocoons, hung on branches of heather, they were then reeled of their silk wire. Last stage: weaving… |
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The Cevennes, it is a country of granite and schist located in southernmost edge of the Central Solid mass and on the Mediterranean slope, between the sources of Ardeche and Herault. Nature beautiful and rebel, savage and generous all at the same time whose shaven landscape was entirely redrawn by the hand of the manwho created there bancels, faysses, terraces arranged for the culture of the vine, the mulberry trees and cereals. And this with a granite, schist habitat sometimes sometimes, cover of roofing stones, which merges in the environment.| < Prev | Next > |
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