Vivarais
Region in Saint-Pierreville, FranceWikipedia
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Oct 7, 2026
John MerrimanHOST
The church bell rings slowly, very, very often, and another of us has been snatched away, sadly.
John MerrimanHOST
In this part of France, in the Ardèche, in what you call the Vivarais, the Bas-Vivarais, it doesn't matter, people spoke patois in daily life in the 1920s and 1930s.
John MerrimanHOST
And then people who were old would speak it among themselves in the 1940s and 1950s.
John MerrimanHOST
But people that I know that are old, including my boule partner, boule, we play boule and we drink a little chardonnay, I'm not supposed to say that, but we drink a little chardonnay on the side, or pastis, quelques pastis de temps en temps, pas de temps en temps, tout le temps, but the people that are playing, my friend who's eighty, he could understand patois, but he can't read it and he can't write it.
MadiganHOST
She added that he would surely hear from somebody somehow, though he claimed he never heard a word.
MadiganHOST
On June fourteenth, nineteen forty-four, Virginia arrived at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the Vivarais plateau.
MadiganHOST
This was a pretty amazing part of France, where Allied support was vital to the community.
MadiganHOST
The locals who practiced the Protestant faith had a custom of hospitality as well as a resistance to oppression.
Ed HumpelNARRATOR
The study of Latin was for him particularly difficult.
Ed HumpelNARRATOR
In his need he turned to the Blessed Virgin, and to St. Francis Regis, the Apostle of Vivarais, to whom he had been devoted since childhood.
Ed HumpelNARRATOR
He undertook a pilgrimage to the latter's tomb in Louvesque to beseech his help.
Ed HumpelNARRATOR
His faithful confidence was rewarded, and from that time on he experienced fewer difficulties in his studies.
John MerrimanHOST
It's a very dark, costaud, very hearty red wine that has to be sat down for a long time, that one of the Roman discussed in some Roman century, B.C. century.
John MerrimanHOST
In that particular region people had to produce wine, most of it was bad wine, in order to trade the wine for something to eat, because the region, that particular region called the Vivarais, it doesn't matter, couldn't produce very much at all because of the rocky soil, and so they would trade their rather bad for lentils, for example, produced around Le Puy, higher up.
John MerrimanHOST
It doesn't matter.
John MerrimanHOST
Wine had always been, the details don't matter, so wine had always been produced.