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Ed Pickering

Ed Pickering

Jul 17, 2026

10:53
What do the departments of Lourdes, the Mayenne, the Meuse, Nieve, Saint-Éloi, Lallier, Creuse, and the Corrèze and the Cantal and the Aveyron all have in common?
11:08
I know what we're getting at here, James.
11:10
I used to live in Lallier.
11:12
So I'm very, very attached to that part of it in particular.
11:17
I spent a year in the town of Moulin as part of my degree, as you mentioned earlier on.
11:21
And Moulin, for me, is the spiritual capital of La France Profonde.
11:24
But this is also part of an area of France called Le Diagonal de Vide, which translates roughly as the empty diagonal.
13:35
Just deep France, wherever it is, where there's, you know, not a lot of urban cosmopolitan influence and perhaps not a lot of people, I guess,

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