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\"\"<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0Y\u2019avait dans l\u2019temps<\/strong>
\nun biau grand chemin<\/strong>
\n\u00e0 c\u2019t\u2019heure n\u2019est pas<\/strong>
\nplus grand qu\u2019la main<\/strong>
\npar o\u00f9 donc que j\u2019chemin\u2019rai d\u2019main\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nLe cheminot<\/em> de Gaston Cout\u00e9 chemine, chemine, mais d\u2019ann\u00e9e en ann\u00e9e le chemin diminue jusqu\u2019\u00e0 devenir \u00ab\u00a0mince comme une couleuvre\u00a0\u00bb. <\/strong>
\nTout pr\u00e8s de chez nous, il y avait un chemin qui, depuis la route de Passins, vous permettait de monter en douceur directement dans les bois. Il n\u2019a pas eu le temps de mincir\u00a0: quand le paysan qui poss\u00e9dait le terrain le long du chemin a achet\u00e9 le terrain de l\u2019autre c\u00f4t\u00e9, il a fait dispara\u00eetre le chemin d\u2019un bon coup de charrue.<\/strong>
\n\u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est toujours \u00e7a de gagn\u00e9, tu payes pas d\u2019imp\u00f4t dessus, et puis ce chemin il y passait jamais personne.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>
\nCe qui est faux bien s\u00fbr. Il n\u2019y a plus que la carte d\u2019\u00e9tat-major qui n\u2019ait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9e de l\u2019escamotage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0In the old days there was<\/strong><\/span>
\na nice wide path<\/strong><\/span>
\nnow it\u2019s not<\/strong><\/span>
\nbigger than the hand<\/strong><\/span>
\nby where will I go tomorrow\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Gaston Cout\u00e9’s walker (cheminot) walks, walks, but year after year the path decreases until it becomes \u00ab\u00a0as thin as a snake\u00a0\u00bb.<\/strong><\/span>
\nVery close to us, there was a path which allowed you, from the Passins road, to climb smoothly directly into the woods. It had no time to decrease down: when the peasant who owned the land along the path bought the land on the other side, he swept the path away with a good blow of the plow.<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00ab\u00a0It’s always a win, you pay no tax on it, and then no one ever went down this path.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/span>
\nWhich is of course false. There is only the staff card that was not informed of the concealment.
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je vous parlais la semaine derni\u00e8re de la balade que Paul et moi avons faite pr\u00e8s de Quirieu. Nous y retournons le lundi et le mardi, pour d\u00e9couvrir chaque fois un nouvel itin\u00e9raire, et nous conservons les traces de ces sorties dans nos archives car elles sont fort plaisantes, nous aurons plaisir \u00e0 y retourner.<\/strong>
\nI was telling you last week about the walk that Paul and I took near Quirieu. We return there on Monday and Tuesday, to discover a new itinerary each time, and we keep the traces of these outings in our archives because they are very pleasant, we will be happy to return there.
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je vous pose \u00e0 nouveau la question \u00ab\u00a0o\u00f9 est le sud o\u00f9 est le nord\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0? Quand j\u2019\u00e9tais petite, on m\u2019avait parl\u00e9 d\u2019adret et d\u2019ubac. Ma photo aurait bien aid\u00e9 \u00e0 comprendre le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne.<\/strong>
\nI ask you again the question \u00ab\u00a0where is the south where is the nort\u00a0\u00bb? When I was a child, I was told about \u00ab\u00a0adret\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0ubac\u00a0\u00bb. My photo would have helped to understand the phenomenon.
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

En passant je remarque cet arbre \u00ab\u00a0malade du haut\u00a0\u00bb, que je vous d\u00e9coupe pour mieux voir et pour vous faire partager ma perplexit\u00e9\u00a0: il ne va pas bien mais je me demande ce qui lui est arriv\u00e9\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nIn passing I notice this tree \u00ab\u00a0sick from the top\u00a0\u00bb, which I cut you to see better and to share my perplexity with you: it is not doing well but I wonder what happened to it!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Le mardi, nous sommes fatigu\u00e9s, mais les jours sans pluie sont si rares, nous avons envie d\u2019en profiter. Nous laissons encore une fois la voiture pr\u00e8s de Quirieu, nous allons jusqu\u2019au Rolland \u00e0 l\u2019entr\u00e9e de Bouvesse et de l\u00e0 \u00e0 Marlieu, puis nous prenons la direction de Chavannes\u00a0: nous avons laiss\u00e9 un chemin pour une route, mais elle est petite et tranquille. Elle sinue au milieu des bois.<\/strong>
\nTuesday we are tired, but days without rain are so rare, we want to take advantage of them. Once again we leave the car near Quirieu, we go to the Rolland at the entrance of Bouvesse and from there to Marlieu, then we take the direction of Chavannes: we have left a path for a road, but it is small and quiet. It winds through the woods.
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nous cherchons en vain le chemin qui doit nous permettre de contourner Chavannes et de rejoindre la voiture. Un sentier mal dessin\u00e9 semble se perdre le long d\u2019une r\u00e9cente coupe de bois, alors nous restons sur la route.<\/strong>
\nWe search in vain for the path that should allow us to bypass Chavannes and join the car. A poorly designed path seems to get lost along a recent log, so we stay on the road.
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00ab\u00a0Y\u2019avait dans l\u2019temps<\/strong>
\nun biau grand chemin<\/strong>
\ncheminot cheminot chemine<\/strong>
\n\u00e0 c\u2019t\u2019heure n\u2019est pas<\/strong>
\nplus grand qu\u2019la main<\/strong>
\npar o\u00f9 donc que j\u2019chemin\u2019rai d\u2019main\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>
\n\u00ab\u00a0In the old days there was<\/strong><\/span>
\na nice wide path<\/strong><\/span>
\nwalker walker walks<\/strong><\/span>
\nnow it\u2019s not<\/strong><\/span>
\nbigger than the hand<\/strong><\/span>
\nby where will I go tomorrow\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Deux petits tracteurs lourdement charg\u00e9s de bois nous doublent \u00e0 petite vitesse.<\/strong>
\nTwo small tractors heavily loaded with wood pass us at low speed.
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

C\u2019est comme \u00e7a que nous passons devant chez toi, Genevi\u00e8ve. Chez toi\u00a0? Je crois que j\u2019ai reconnu l\u2019endroit, mais \u00e7a fait si longtemps que nous ne sommes pas venus\u00a0! L\u2019un des b\u00fbcherons est peut-\u00eatre ton fr\u00e8re. Nous h\u00e9sitons \u00e0 taper \u00e0 ta porte – si toutefois il s\u2019agit bien de ta porte – mais la fatigue se fait sentir et nous avons h\u00e2te de rentrer maintenant.<\/strong>
\nThis is how we walk past your home, Genevi\u00e8ve. Your home ? I think I recognized the place, but it’s been so long since we last came! One of the loggers might be your brother. We hesitate to knock on your door – if it is indeed your door – but fatigue sets in and we can’t wait to get home now.
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Malheureusement, comme notre retour par les bois a \u00e9chou\u00e9, nous terminons la balade par une route plus importante et bien plus passante. Ce sont principalement des SUV, de quoi m\u2019exasp\u00e9rer\u00a0! \u00ab\u00a0Une tonne pour transporter quatre-vingt kilos\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb d\u00e9non\u00e7ait un militant, d\u00e9non\u00e7ant l\u2019usage de la voiture individuelle \u00e0 la place de transports collectifs. Il n\u2019y a pas vraiment de place pour les pi\u00e9tons par ici. On se serait bien pass\u00e9s de ce kilom\u00e8tre suppl\u00e9mentaire.<\/strong>
\nUnfortunately, as our return through the woods failed, we end the walk with a larger and more busy road. They\u2019re mostly SUV, which annoys me! \u00ab\u00a0A ton to transport eighty kilos!\u00a0\u00bb an activist said, denouncing the use of private cars instead of public transport. There isn’t much room for pedestrians around here. We would have done well without this extra kilometer.
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je me chantonne la chanson de Gaston Cout\u00e9, ce n\u2019est pas la premi\u00e8re fois qu\u2019un chemin dispara\u00eet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>
\n\u00ab\u00a0Le ch\u2019min c\u2019\u00e9tait \u00e0 leur jug\u00e9<\/strong>
\nd\u2019la bonne terre perdue<\/strong>
\n\u00e0 chaque labour ils l\u2019ont mang\u00e9<\/strong>
\nd\u2019un sillon d\u2019charrue\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I sing the song of Gaston Cout\u00e9 to myself, it is not the first time that a path has disappeared.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0The path was at their judgment <\/strong><\/span>
\ngood soil lost <\/strong><\/span>
\nwith each plowing they ate it<\/strong><\/span>
\nof a plow furrow\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Il nous faudra chercher le bout de chemin par son autre extr\u00e9mit\u00e9, au Buissonnet, pour suivre une autre fois ce parcours.<\/strong>
\nWe will have to look for the end of the path at its other end, at Buissonnet, to follow this route again.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nous ne sommes pas les seuls \u00e0 nous promener\u00a0: les chevreuils continuent \u00e0 nous faire des visites r\u00e9guli\u00e8res. Les salades brout\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019automne n\u2019ont pas surv\u00e9cu et ont pourri. Paul et Lolo pr\u00e9voient de remettre un grillage partout sur leurs passages, Lolo a d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9, derri\u00e8re la serre.<\/strong>
\nWe are not the only ones to walk: the deer continue to make regular visits to us. The salads grazed in the fall did not survive and rotted. Paul and Lolo plan to put a fence everywhere on their passages, Lolo has already started, behind the greenhouse.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Les pivoines montrent leur nez, Paul se h\u00e2te de les rendre visibles avec du grillage. Les samares s\u2019ouvrent par centaines, mais nous ne laisserons pas la for\u00eat se d\u00e9velopper.<\/strong>
\nThe peonies show their noses, Paul hastens to make them visible with wire mesh. The samaras are opening by the hundreds, but we will not let the forest grow.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Vendredi 12, neige et froid, vendredi 19 chaleur printani\u00e8re en dessus des moyennes saisonni\u00e8res. Ce n\u2019est pas sans inqui\u00e9tude que nous voyons le printemps se manifester, des gel\u00e9es tardives seraient catastrophiques. Mais une autre part de nous se r\u00e9jouit et profite de ce renouveau\u00a0: on est si bien dehors\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nDimanche 14, sortie avec parka, dimanche 21, sans parka, m\u00eame le sweat est de trop\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nFriday 12 snow and cold, Friday 19 spring heat above seasonal averages. It is not without concern that we see spring breaking in, late frosts would be catastrophic. But another part of us rejoices and takes advantage of this renewal: we are so well outside!<\/strong><\/span>
\nSunday 14th, outing with a parka, Sunday 21st, without a parka, even the sweatshirt is too much!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Le texte \u00ab\u00a0les mangeux d\u2019terre\u00a0\u00bb se trouve ici.<\/a> Sur youtube vous pouvez \u00e9couter la version chant\u00e9e par G\u00e9rard Pierron.<\/strong>
\nThe text \u00ab\u00a0les mangeux d\u2019terre\u00a0\u00bb can be found here.<\/a> On youtube you can listen to the version sung by G\u00e9rard Pierron.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong>
\nJe voulais parler de l\u2019industrie agro-alimentaire et comment elle nous empoisonne, mais je recommence \u00e0 \u00e9couter un peu la radio du fait que je conduis sur de petits trajets (une habitude que j\u2019ai, \u00e9couter la radio quand je suis seule)\u00a0: j\u2019ai entendu France culture pr\u00e9senter une \u00e9mission, \u00ab\u00a0la fabrique de l\u2019ignorance\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e0 voir sur Arte aujourd\u2019hui, mardi 23<\/em>. Au passage l\u2019\u00e9mission \u00e9gratigne le comportement des Fran\u00e7ais\u00a0: apr\u00e8s avoir critiqu\u00e9 les vaccins anti-Covid, ils se ruent sur les centres de vaccination (ce qui n\u2019est pas mon cas, bien entendu).<\/strong>
\nI wanted to talk about the food industry and how it poisons us, but I’m starting to listen to the radio a bit again as I drive short trips (a habit I have, listening to the radio when I’m alone) : I heard France Culture present a program, \u00ab\u00a0la fabrique de l\u2019ignorance\u00a0\u00bb, to see on Arte today, Tuesday 23<\/em>. By the way, the show scratches the behavior of the French: after having criticized the anti-Covid vaccines , they rush to the vaccination centers (which is not my case, of course).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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C\u2019est facile de se moquer. Apr\u00e8s plus d\u2019un an d\u2019insupportable matraquage m\u00e9diatique (on ne peut appeler cela \u00ab\u00a0de l\u2019info\u00a0\u00bb), apr\u00e8s avoir distill\u00e9 l\u2019angoisse et g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9 la folie, on propose la solution miracle, et on voudrait que notre esprit cart\u00e9sien ne c\u00e8de pas \u00e0 un besoin atavique de s\u00e9curit\u00e9\u00a0?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s easy to laugh at. After more than a year of unbearable media hype (we can’t call it \u00ab\u00a0news\u00a0\u00bb), after having distilled anxiety and generated madness, they are proposing the miracle solution, and they would like our Cartesian mind not to not give in to an atavistic need for security?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

En plus d\u2019\u00eatre diffus\u00e9e aujourd\u2019hui, l\u2019\u00e9mission \u00ab\u00a0la fabrique de l\u2019ignorance\u00a0\u00bb est disponible jusqu\u2019au 23 avril en cliquant sur ce lien<\/a>, et je vous invite vivement \u00e0 la suivre.<\/strong>
\nIn addition to airing today, the show \u00ab\u00a0la fabrique de l\u2019ignorance\u00a0\u00bb is available until April 23 by clicking on this link,<\/a> and I urge you to follow it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Je me rappelle tr\u00e8s nettement tout le bien qu\u2019on disait du tabac dans les ann\u00e9es 70. L\u2019\u00e9mission nous apprend qu\u2019en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, d\u00e8s les ann\u00e9es 50, la recherche avait r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0que le tabac constitue un facteur de cancer et d’accidents cardiovasculaires. Pour contrer une v\u00e9rit\u00e9 d\u00e9rangeante, car susceptible d’entra\u00eener une r\u00e9glementation accrue au prix de lourdes pertes financi\u00e8res, l’industrie imagine alors en secret une forme particuli\u00e8re de d\u00e9sinformation, qui se g\u00e9n\u00e9ralise aujourd’hui : susciter, en finan\u00e7ant, entre autres, abondamment des \u00e9tudes scientifiques concurrentes, un \u00e9pais nuage de doute qui alimente les controverses et \u00e9gare les opinions publiques.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>
\n\u2028I can vividly remember all the good things said about tobacco in the 1970s. The show tells us that in fact, as early as the 1950s, research had revealed \u00ab\u00a0that tobacco is a factor in cancer and cardiovascular events. To counter a disturbing truth, because it could lead to increased regulation at the cost of heavy financial losses, the industry then secretly imagines a particular form of disinformation, which is becoming widespread today: to arouse, by financing, among other things, abundantly competing scientific studies, a thick cloud of doubt that feeds controversies and misleads public opinion.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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La strat\u00e9gie des industriels du tabac est bien explicit\u00e9e, et c\u2019est la m\u00eame que reprennent d\u2019autres firmes \u00e0 mesure que les probl\u00e8mes \u00e9mergent.
\nThe tobacco industry’s strategy is well articulated, and it is the same that other firms are picking up on as problems emerge.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Le doute est notre produit car c\u2019est le meilleur moyen de concurrencer l\u2019ensemble des faits pr\u00e9sents dans l\u2019esprit du public. C\u2019est aussi le moyen d\u2019\u00e9tablir une controverse.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u00ab\u00a0Doubt is our product because it is the best way to compete with all of the facts in the public mind. It is also the way to establish controversy.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Il s\u2019agit utiliser la science pour \u00e9viter la v\u00e9rit\u00e9. Prenons la vitesse de la chute d\u2019une pomme<\/em>, dit un des intervenants. C\u2019est aujourd\u2019hui un fait scientifique, d\u00e9montr\u00e9, qu\u2019il n\u2019est plus n\u00e9cessaire de remettre en question.<\/em> Mais l\u2019industrie remet en question ce qui n\u2019a pas besoin de l\u2019\u00eatre, afin de g\u00e9n\u00e9rer le doute. Les n\u00e9onicotino\u00efdes tuent les abeilles, disent les apiculteurs, mais plut\u00f4t que de le reconna\u00eetre, les industriels lancent une fausse campagne d\u2019information \u00e0 coups de millions de dollars ou d\u2019euros.<\/strong>
\nIt’s about using science to avoid the truth. One of the speaker says: \u00ab\u00a0consider the speed of an apple falling. This is now a proven scientific fact that no longer needs to be questioned.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> But the industry questions what doesn’t need to be, in order to generate doubt. Neonicotinoids kill bees, say beekeepers, but rather than admit it, industry is launching a bogus information campaign with millions of dollars or euros.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Un peu comme des Don Quichotte, incompris souvent, les chercheurs se battent contre cet \u00e9tat de fait. Il existe maintenant un mot, l\u2019agnotologie\u00a0: l\u2019\u00e9tude de l\u2019ignorance. Cela ressemble \u00e0 un paradoxe, mais il s\u2019agit bien de fabriquer de l\u2019ignorance et nous avons tous int\u00e9r\u00eat \u00e0 savoir rep\u00e9rer ce qui est science et ce qui ne l\u2019est pas.<\/strong>
\nResearchers are fighting against this state of affairs\u2019, a bit like Don Quixotes, often misunderstood. There is now a word, agnotology: the study of ignorance. It sounds like a paradox, but it is all about fabricating ignorance and we all have an interest in knowing how to spot what is science and what is not.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je vous parlais avec regret de Callenbach et de son \u00ab\u00a0\u00c9cotopia\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0:<\/a> ces tristes affaires comme l\u2019agnotologie font r\u00eaver d\u2019un autre monde, avec d\u2019autres mentalit\u00e9s, d\u2019autres attitudes\u00a0; une vraie prise en compte des vrais probl\u00e8mes qu\u2019il faut chercher \u00e0 r\u00e9soudre, les industries faisant perdre un temps pr\u00e9cieux par leurs enfumages.<\/strong>
\nI spoke to you with regret about Callenbach and his \u00ab\u00a0\u00c9cotopia\u00a0\u00bb:<\/a> these sad affairs, like agnotology, make you dream of another world, with other mentalities, other attitudes; a real taking into account of the real problems that must be sought to solve, as industries waste precious time by their smoking.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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En plus de Callenbach et de son \u00ab\u00a0\u00c9cotopia\u00a0\u00bb, j\u2019avais \u00e9voqu\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e9crivain Georges Stewart, dont le livre \u00ab\u00a0Maria la temp\u00eate\u00a0\u00bb avait vivement frapp\u00e9 Callenbach. Paul m\u2019a trouv\u00e9 ce \u00ab\u00a0Maria\u00a0\u00bb dans sa premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition en fran\u00e7ais, un exemplaire \u00e9dit\u00e9 en 1951 (j\u2019\u00e9tais pas n\u00e9e), un dr\u00f4le de bouquin vraiment\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nIn addition to Callenbach and his \u00ab\u00a0\u00c9cotopia\u00a0\u00bb, I had mentioned the writer Georges Stewart, whose book \u00ab\u00a0Storm\u00a0\u00bb had struck Callenbach deeply. Paul found me this \u00ab\u00a0Storm\u00a0\u00bb in its first edition in French, a copy published in 1951 (I was not born), a really funny book!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Eh bien, nous quittons l\u2019agnotologie et son cort\u00e8ge d\u2019angoisses. Les peurs dans \u00ab\u00a0Maria la temp\u00eate\u00a0\u00bb sont d\u2019un tout autre ordre. Le r\u00e9cit se situe pendant une douzaine de jours entre 1945 et 1948. Il s\u2019agit en quelque sorte d\u2019un cours de m\u00e9t\u00e9orologie, exhaustif je crois, extr\u00eamement document\u00e9, avec les moyens d\u2019\u00e9poque\u00a0: pas de satellites, pas d\u2019internet, les infos \u00e9tant transmises depuis les navires, les avions, par radio, par t\u00e9l\u00e9phone\u2026 ou par T\u00e9l\u00e9type (ou t\u00e9l\u00e9scripteur).<\/strong>
\nWell, we leave agnotology and its attendant anguish. The fears in \u00ab\u00a0Storm\u00a0\u00bb are of a different order. The story takes place over a dozen days between 1945 and 1948. It is in a way a meteorology course, exhaustive I believe, extremely documented, with the means of the time: no satellites, no internet , the information being transmitted from ships, planes, by radio, by telephone\u2026 or by Teletype (or teleprinter).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dans le Bureau M\u00e9t\u00e9orologique de San Francisco travaillent un jeune stagiaire et son chef plus \u00e2g\u00e9, qui re\u00e7oivent souvent la visite du \u00ab\u00a0Vieux\u00a0\u00bb, chacun des trois estimant bien meilleure sa propre fa\u00e7on d\u2019agir\u00a0: c\u2019est l\u2019occasion de pr\u00e9senter l\u2019\u00e9volution de la science m\u00e9t\u00e9orologique entre la fin du dix-neuvi\u00e8me si\u00e8cle et les ann\u00e9es d\u2019apr\u00e8s-guerre.<\/strong>
\nIn the Meteorological Office of San Francisco work a young intern and his older boss, who often receive a visit from the \u00ab\u00a0Old\u00a0\u00bb, each of the three considering their own way of doing much better: this is an opportunity to present the evolution of meteorological science between the end of the nineteenth century and the post-war years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ce poste a la grave responsabilit\u00e9 de faire des pr\u00e9visions permettant aux humains de vaquer \u00e0 leurs occupations en fonction du temps qu\u2019il fera. Ainsi les responsables de la voirie savent s\u2019ils doivent se tenir pr\u00eats \u00e0 d\u00e9neiger les routes.<\/strong>
\nThis position has the serious responsibility of making forecasts allowing humans to go about their business according to the weather. This way, road officials know whether they should be ready to clear the roads.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je n\u2019aurais pas cru qu\u2019un long roman sur le sujet puisse me captiver autant. Honn\u00eatement, j\u2019ai survol\u00e9 sans comprendre les fronts froids, les fronts chauds, les pressions basses ou hautes, les isobares, absolument incapable d\u2019imaginer la carte que chaque jour, le stagiaire dessine en fonction des donn\u00e9es arriv\u00e9es dans le T\u00e9l\u00e9type, par t\u00e9l\u00e9phone ou par radio\u2026<\/strong>
\nI wouldn’t have believed that a long novel on the subject could captivate me so much. Honestly, I flew over without understanding the cold fronts, the warm fronts, the low or high pressures, the isobars, absolutely unable to imagine the map that each day, the trainee draws according to the data arrived in the Teletype, by telephone or by radio …\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mais Stewart m\u00e8ne tr\u00e8s bien sa barque et g\u00e8re les innombrables personnages qui vont accompagner le r\u00e9cit depuis la naissance de Maria, sur la carte\u00a0: petit ovale en forme de ballon de rugby, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la mort de cette temp\u00eate. Dans ce livre, les personnages assument leurs responsabilit\u00e9s en toute conscience. Je ressens comme un lien entre tous ceux qui en quelque sorte accompagnent<\/em> la temp\u00eate, la surveillent, r\u00e9parent les d\u00e9g\u00e2ts aussi bien en grimpant aux poteaux qu\u2019en ouvrant les vannes pour que l\u2019eau s\u2019\u00e9coule. <\/strong>
\nBut Stewart manages his boat very well and manages the countless characters who will accompany the story from the birth of Maria, on the map: a small oval in the shape of a rugby ball, until the death of this storm. In this book, the characters assume their responsibilities conscientiously. I feel like a bond between all those who are in some way accompanying<\/em> the storm, watching it, repairing the damage both by climbing the poles and opening the floodgates for the water to flow.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chacun \u00e0 sa place joue son r\u00f4le \u00e0 la perfection, on assiste comme \u00e0 un ballet bien r\u00e9gl\u00e9. Le nombre de personnes et d\u2019activit\u00e9s n\u00e9cessaires pour pr\u00e9voir le temps, d\u00e9gager les routes, faire voler les avions ou rouler les trains dans des conditions extr\u00eames est impressionnant.<\/strong>
\nEach in his place plays his role to perfection, we attend like a well-regulated ballet. The number of people and activities required to predict the weather, clear roads, fly planes or run trains in extreme conditions is staggering.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Au moins, il n\u2019y a pas de personnages doubles qui vont tenter de faire croire que le tabac est inoffensif et qu\u2019on peut sur-consommer du sucre sans danger pour sa sant\u00e9. C\u2019est peut-\u00eatre ce qui me pla\u00eet dans ce livre\u00a0: il n\u2019y a pas de personnages malfaisants, menteurs, mal intentionn\u00e9s. La fiction repose d\u2019une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 peu supportable\u2026<\/strong>
\nAt least there aren’t any double characters who will try to make people believe that tobacco is harmless and that you can over-consume sugar without endangering your health. Maybe that’s what I like about this book: there are no evil, lying, evil-minded characters. The fiction is more comfortable than an unbearable reality …<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

J\u2019oubliais\u00a0: c\u2019est \u00e0 cause de ce livre peu connu que, depuis, on donne un nom aux temp\u00eates\u2026<\/strong>
\nI forgot: it’s because of this little-known book that we’ve given storms a name since …<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je laisse la parole d\u2019abord \u00e0 Georges Stewart, pour la d\u00e9dicace qu\u2019il a faite de son livre, ensuite \u00e0 Wikip\u00e9dia qui cite un d\u00e9tail<\/a> particuli\u00e8rement savoureux de l\u2019histoire de la m\u00e9t\u00e9orologie\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nI leave the floor first to Georges Stewart, for the dedication he made of his book, then to Wikipedia, which cites a particularly tasty detail<\/a> from the history of meteorology!<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe author thanks the organizations whose names he cites for their generous assistance.
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\nWikip\u00e9dia : \u201cL\u2019histoire de la pr\u00e9vision du temps remonte \u00e0 des temps imm\u00e9moriaux avec les oracles et devins. Elle ne fut pas toujours bien vue. Ainsi une loi anglaise de 1677 condamnait au b\u00fbcher les m\u00e9t\u00e9orologues, tax\u00e9s de sorcellerie. Cette loi ne fut abrog\u00e9e qu’en 1959 mais ne fut pas toujours appliqu\u00e9e \u00e0 la lettre. Ainsi le Group Captain James Stagg, m\u00e9t\u00e9orologue en chef, et les membres de ses trois \u00e9quipes de pr\u00e9vision, purent pr\u00e9dire une accalmie pour le d\u00e9barquement de Normandie le matin du 6 juin 1944, sans crainte de subir ce sort. \u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n Wikipedia: \u201cThe history of weather forecasting dates back to time immemorial with oracles and diviners. It was not always well seen. Thus an English law of 1677 condemned meteorologists, accused of witchcraft, to the stake. This law was not repealed until 1959 but was not always applied to the letter. Thus Group Captain James Stagg, chief meteorologist, and the members of his three forecasting teams, were able to predict a lull for the Normandy landings on the morning of June 6, 1944, without fear of suffering this fate.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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