{"id":9522,"date":"2021-05-18T06:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T06:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2021-05-18T06:36:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T06:36:42","slug":"balades-ardechoises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=9522","title":{"rendered":"Balades ard\u00e9choises"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monsieur Laporte cultivait trois mille six cents vari\u00e9t\u00e9s d\u2019iris. Il y en a moins maintenant me dit-il. L\u2019id\u00e9al serait de revenir dans une dizaine de jours, quand les fleurs tardives seront ouvertes, \u00e0 la fin des floraisons pr\u00e9coces\u2026 Et au meilleur moment pour les autres, ni pr\u00e9coces ni tardives, mais comment faut-il les appeler\u00a0?<\/strong>
\nMr. Laporte cultivated 3,600 varieties of irises. There are less now, he tells me. The ideal would be to come back in about ten days, when the late flowers have opened, at the end of the early blooms … And at the best time for the others, neither early nor late, but what should we call them?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pour visiter ce site extraordinaire, je suis pass\u00e9e par Larnas avec mon p\u00e8re. Larnas, c\u2019est l\u00e0 o\u00f9 se situent mes souvenirs les plus anciens. Maman a \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019institutrice du village pendant quelques ann\u00e9es, nous habitions le logement en dessus de l\u2019\u00e9cole. Par la fen\u00eatre je voyais la Dent de Retz.<\/strong>
\nI went through Larnas with my father to visit this extraordinary site. Larnas is where my earliest memories are. Mom was the village schoolteacher for a few years, we lived in the apartment above the school. Through the window I could see the Dent de Retz.<\/strong><\/span>
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Derri\u00e8re l\u2019\u00e9cole partait un chemin qui selon moi ne menait nulle part. C\u2019\u00e9tait notre terrain de jeu. Avec ma s\u0153ur nous l\u2019avons parcouru ann\u00e9e apr\u00e8s ann\u00e9e et nous en connaissions chaque tournant, chaque mont\u00e9e ou chaque replat. Peut-\u00eatre m\u00eame chaque pierre sur les murets. Nous aurions sans doute pu le suivre en aveugle. Y passait-il une voiture par an\u00a0? Ce n\u2019est m\u00eame pas certain. Chaque jour d\u2019\u00e9cole des \u00e9l\u00e8ves venaient \u00e0 pied par l\u00e0, j\u2019imaginais qu\u2019ils habitaient un cul-de-sac. Pourtant ce chemin continuait jusqu\u2019\u00e0 Saint-Thom\u00e9, on pouvait rejoindre Viviers, Alba-la-Romaine\u2026 la civilisation.<\/strong>
\nBehind the school was a path that in my opinion led nowhere. It was our playground. With my sister we hiked it year after year and we knew every turn, every climb or every flat. Maybe even every stone on the low walls. We could undoubtedly have been able to follow it blind. Was there one car a year? It’s not even certain. Every school day some students came on foot there, I imagined they lived in a cul-de-sac. However, this path continued until Saint-Thom\u00e9, you could reach Viviers, Alba-la-Romaine … civilization.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Quand j\u2019arrive \u00e0 Larnas, je peux me guider les yeux ferm\u00e9s alors que tout a chang\u00e9. Je sais qu\u2019il faut prendre le chemin \u00ab\u00a0de derri\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb mais je suis vite en terra incognita<\/em>. Apr\u00e8s un ou deux kilom\u00e8tres\u00a0? Nos exp\u00e9ditions d\u2019autrefois restaient tr\u00e8s raisonnables. Je ne savais pas situer Gerbeaux, Fonfreyde ou Ellieux, mais ces noms r\u00e9sonnent en moi. Ils apparaissent sur les panneaux. Mieux, le mot \u00ab\u00a0iris\u00a0\u00bb m\u2019indique la bonne direction. Nous traversons Valgayette et passons le petit pont sur la N\u00e8gue.<\/strong>
\nWhen I get to Larnas, I can guide myself with my eyes closed but everything has changed. I know I have to take the \u00ab\u00a0behind\u00a0\u00bb path, but I quickly find myself in terra incognita<\/em>. After a kilometer or two? Our previous shipments were still very reasonable. I did not know where to place Gerbeaux, Fonfreyde or Ellieux, but these names resonate in me. They appear on the road signs. Better still, the word \u00ab\u00a0iris\u00a0\u00bb points me in the right direction. We cross Valgayette and cross the small bridge over the N\u00e8gue.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bernard Laporte est install\u00e9 \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de sa voiture. Dans une vie ant\u00e9rieure, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 facteur\u00a0: c\u2019est dire s\u2019il conna\u00eet tout le monde, mes parents bien s\u00fbr parmi tant d\u2019autres. Nous \u00e9changeons quelques mots, je lui demande l\u2019autorisation de ranger ses beaux iris dans mon Canon.<\/strong>
\nBernard Laporte is seated next to his car. In a previous life, he was a postman: that is, if he knows everyone, my parents of course among many others. We exchange a few words, I ask him permission to store his beautiful irises in my Canon.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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J\u2019avais l\u2019intention de renouveler les photos de ce blog, les fleurs, j\u2019en ai une indigestion, vous aussi peut-\u00eatre. Or par la force des choses nous allons faire une surconsommation d\u2019iris.<\/strong>
\nI was intending to renew the photos on this blog, the flowers, I have indigestion, maybe you too. But by force of circumstances we will overconsume iris.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Papa et moi ne sommes pas les seuls \u00e0 admirer les fleurs de monsieur Laporte\u00a0: pendant que je multiplie les prises de vue, quelques voitures ou des cyclistes passent, je crois que pas un seul ne s\u2019est pas arr\u00eat\u00e9\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nDad and I are not the only ones admiring Mr. Laporte’s flowers: while I am taking more shots, a few cars or cyclists pass by, I don’t think a single one has not stopped!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Surprise\u00a0: en cherchant \u00e0 en savoir plus sur internet, je trouve l\u2019iris \u00ab\u00a0larnas\u00a0\u00bb vendu par une iriseraie en Alsace\u2026<\/a><\/strong>
\nSurprise: while trying to find out more on the internet, I find<\/span> the iris \u00ab\u00a0larnas\u00a0\u00bb sold by an iris grove in Alsace …<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Apr\u00e8s cette plaisante visite, continuant mes retours vers mon enfance, je propose \u00e0 papa d\u2019aller voir la chapelle de Notre-Dame de Chalon dans le bois du Laoul. Arr\u00eat photo entre dent de Retz et Mont Ventoux, le cauchemar des cyclistes.<\/strong>
\nAfter this pleasant visit, continuing my return to my childhood, I suggest that dad and I go and see the chapel of Notre-Dame de Chalon in the wood of Laoul. Photo stop between Dent de Retz and Mont Ventoux, the cyclists’ nightmare.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Si vous suivez l\u2019autoroute A7, vous voyez facilement le Mont Ventoux \u00e0 l\u2019est et sans doute pendant des kilom\u00e8tres\u00a0; ce sommet qui a enregistr\u00e9 sur les an\u00e9mom\u00e8tres des vitesses folles<\/a> (320km\/h le 19 novembre 1967) et o\u00f9 il fait froid (on atteint tr\u00e8s souvent des temp\u00e9ratures plus basses que -25\u00b0C) est visible de tr\u00e8s loin. Quant \u00e0 la Dent de Retz, il est facile de la reconna\u00eetre, \u00e0 l\u2019ouest entre Mont\u00e9limar et Orange. Enfant, le Mont Ventoux ne m\u2019int\u00e9ressait pas du tout, je ne connaissais peut-\u00eatre m\u00eame pas son nom. Au contraire, la Dent de Retz \u00e9tait mon rep\u00e8re.<\/strong>
\nIf you follow the A7 motorway, you can easily see Mont Ventoux to the east and probably for miles; this summit which recorded crazy speeds on the anemometers<\/a> (320 km \/ h on November 19, 1967) and where it is cold (temperatures very often lower than -25 \u00b0 C are reached) is visible from a great distance. As for the Dent de Retz, it is easy to recognize it, to the west between Mont\u00e9limar and Orange. When I was a child, Mont Ventoux did not interest me at all, I might not even know its name. On the contrary, the Dent de Retz was my landmark.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Bient\u00f4t nous perdons de vue ces deux sommets.<\/strong>
\nNous passons dans les bois de ch\u00eanes verts.<\/strong>
\nLa chapelle ne m\u2019inspire pas, mais le site est tr\u00e8s agr\u00e9able.<\/strong>
\nDes abeilles s\u2019y sont install\u00e9es.<\/strong>
\nSoon we lose sight of these two peaks.<\/strong><\/span>
\n We pass through the woods of holm oaks.<\/strong><\/span>
\n The chapel does not inspire me, but the site is very pleasant.<\/strong><\/span>
\n Bees have settled there.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Encore un lieu que papa a explor\u00e9 en d\u00e9tail quand il y voyait bien. Il cherche les restes de murailles romaines, mais selon lui les pierres pos\u00e9es en biais indiquent les sarrasins, je n\u2019irai pas le d\u00e9tromper\u00a0! Ces constructions auraient servi de protection contre les loups et les renards et auraient comme caract\u00e9ristique un sommet de pierres rang\u00e9es en biais et \u00e0 des hauteurs irr\u00e9guli\u00e8res\u00a0: c\u2019est parfait pour barrer le passage \u00e0 des animaux.<\/strong>
\nAnother place that dad explored in detail when he could see it well. He is looking for the remains of Roman walls, but according to him the stones laid at an angle indicate Saracens, I will not go undeceive him! These constructions would have served as protection against wolves and foxes and have as characteristic a top of stones arranged at an angle and at irregular heights: this is perfect for blocking the passage of animals.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIci comme chez nous, on trouve du buis reparti apr\u00e8s les d\u00e9sastreuses invasions de pyrales. Il y a pas mal de plantes que j\u2019aimerais identifier, les ch\u00eanes verts ont des fleurs ou des bourgeons. Nous cherchons en vain une pivoine, peut-\u00eatre \u00ab\u00a0Paeonia peregrina<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb, peut-\u00eatre \u00ab\u00a0Paeonia officinalis<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb, deux vari\u00e9t\u00e9s sauvages.<\/strong>
\nHere as at home, we find boxwood growing again after the disastrous invasions of moths. There are quite a few plants that I would like to identify, holm oaks have flowers or buds. We are looking in vain for a peony, maybe \u00ab\u00a0Paeonia peregrina<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb, maybe \u00ab\u00a0Paeonia officinalis<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb, two wild varieties.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Avec ma s\u0153ur, quand nous habitions Larnas, nous avons souvent cueilli de gros bouquets d\u2019aphyllanthes de Montpellier (Aphyllanthes monspeliensis<\/em>). Que nous mangions avec d\u00e9lice. \u00c9vitez de le faire, ce n\u2019est pas une plante r\u00e9put\u00e9e comestible.<\/strong>
\nWith my sister, when we lived in Larnas, we often picked large clumps of Montpellier aphyllanthes (Aphyllanthes monspeliensis<\/em>). That we ate with delight. Avoid doing this, it is not a known edible plant.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Je continue \u00e0 marcher sur les pas de la petite fille que j\u2019\u00e9tais\u00a0: j\u2019ai un souvenir assez intense du Castellas de Baravon, je souhaite y retourner. Nous avions jou\u00e9 \u00e0 saute-mouton dans la petite prairie autour de la vieille ferme. Mais j\u2019avais surtout \u00e9t\u00e9 impressionn\u00e9e par le b\u00e2timent\u00a0: tu rentres au rez-de-chauss\u00e9e o\u00f9 toutes les cloisons int\u00e9rieures se sont effondr\u00e9es, sans doute aussi le plafond, tu arrives dans une pi\u00e8ce immense, poussi\u00e9reuse, magique, fantastique, comme un d\u00e9cor de th\u00e9\u00e2tre. En r\u00e9alit\u00e9 il y avait huit pi\u00e8ces avant que l\u2019\u00e9difice abandonn\u00e9 tombe en ruine\u00a0: c\u2019est dire la dimension de la salle que j\u2019avais observ\u00e9e\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nI continue to follow in the footsteps of the little girl I was: I have a rather intense memory of Castellas de Baravon, I want to go back there. We had played leapfrog in the little meadow around the old farm. But I was especially impressed by the building: you come back to the ground floor where all the interior partitions have collapsed, probably also the ceiling, you arrive in a huge room, dusty, magical, fantastic, like a decor theatre. In reality there were eight rooms before the abandoned building fell into disrepair: that’s the size of the room I had observed!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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D\u00e9sillusion\u00a0: je croyais conna\u00eetre le Castellas de Baravon, en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 nous nous trouvons \u00e0 la ferme de Baravon. \u00ab\u00a0Castellas\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e7a sonne bien, mais ce seraient des vestiges datant du sixi\u00e8me si\u00e8cle\u00a0: pour les voir il faudrait marcher encore plus loin alors que mon p\u00e8re accuse la fatigue. Et que nous devons remonter jusqu\u2019au point de d\u00e9part. Autre d\u00e9sillusion\u00a0: le site est investi par les chasseurs. Nous sommes pass\u00e9s devant une r\u00e9serve d\u2019eau destin\u00e9e aux pompiers, les chasseurs ont plac\u00e9 un tuyau qui leur permet d\u2019avoir de l\u2019eau en contrebas\u2026 De nombreuses cases pour les chiens sont install\u00e9es, pr\u00eates \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019emploi\u00a0\u00bb.<\/strong>
\nDisillusionment: I thought I knew the Castellas de Baravon, in reality we are at Baravon’s farm. \u00ab\u00a0Castellas\u00a0\u00bb sounds good, but they would be vestiges dating from the sixth century: to see them you would have to walk even further while my father is tired. And that we have to go back to the starting point. Another disappointment: the site is taken over by hunters. We passed a water reserve for the firefighters, the hunters placed a hose that allows them to have water below … Numerous huts for the dogs are installed, ready for \u00ab\u00a0employment\u00a0\u00bb.<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMe voil\u00e0 donc bien d\u00e9\u00e7ue par la ferme de Baravon, et je ne souhaite pas marcher jusqu\u2019au Castellas. Pour moi, c\u2019est une tr\u00e8s belle balade, seule l\u2019arriv\u00e9e est d\u00e9cevante. Nous ne tardons pas \u00e0 remonter tout doucement.<\/strong>
\nSo here I am very disappointed with Baravon’s farm, and I don’t want to walk to Castellas. For me, it’s a very nice ride, only the finish is disappointing. We do not take long to slowly climb back up.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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La voiture est gar\u00e9e dans un champ de fossiles, de grosses ammonites\u00a0: je devais \u00eatre bien pr\u00e9occup\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019aller, je n\u2019ai rien remarqu\u00e9. Je n\u2019ai jamais rien vu de tel\u00a0! Le plus souvent elles mesurent entre vingt et trente centim\u00e8tres de diam\u00e8tre. On voit aussi des bivalves\u2026<\/strong>
\nThe car is parked in a field of fossils, large ammonites: I must have been very preoccupied on the way there, I didn’t notice a thing. I’ve never seen anything like it! Most often they measure between twenty and thirty centimeters in diameter. We also see bivalves …<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c9merveill\u00e9e, je prends des photos pendant que papa s\u2019installe dans la voiture.<\/strong>
\n Amazed, I take pictures while dad gets into the car.\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Le lendemain, alors que le sud de l\u2019Ard\u00e8che manque d\u2019eau depuis des ann\u00e9es, nous passons une journ\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur \u00e0 cause de la pluie, en renon\u00e7ant \u00e0 la balade pr\u00e9vue ce jour-l\u00e0. Le mardi, je rentre chez moi.<\/strong>
\nThe next day, when the south of the Ard\u00e8che has lacked water for years, we spend a day indoors because of the rain, skipping the walk planned that day. Tuesday, I go home.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mon s\u00e9jour en Ard\u00e8che est bref. Il m\u2019a fait quitter la routine habituelle et m\u2019a permis de rencontrer mon p\u00e8re et mes s\u0153urs. Je savais aussi que je ne publierais pas de nouvelle chronique mardi 11, jour de mon retour.<\/strong>
\nMy stay in Ard\u00e8che was brief. It took me out of my usual routine and allowed me to meet my father and sisters. I also knew that I would not publish a new column on Tuesday 11, the day I returned.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul pendant mon absence continue les travaux quotidiens. Heureusement que Nanath est l\u00e0, elle l\u2019accompagne au march\u00e9. Il a pu aller pique-niquer \u00e0 la cabane avec S\u00e9b et Ga\u00eblle. <\/strong>
\nPaul during my absence continues the daily work. Fortunately Nanath is there, she accompanies him to the market. He was able to have a picnic at the cabin with S\u00e9b and Ga\u00eblle.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Je reviens et retrouve mes habitudes.<\/strong>
\n I come back and find my habits.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Monsieur Laporte cultivait trois mille six cents vari\u00e9t\u00e9s d\u2019iris. Il y en a moins maintenant me dit-il. L\u2019id\u00e9al serait de revenir dans une dizaine de jours, quand les fleurs tardives seront ouvertes, \u00e0 la fin des floraisons pr\u00e9coces\u2026 Et au … Continuer la lecture →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9574,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}