ABC Wednesday..... L is for Lodève

Lodève is another beautiful town in Languedoc-Roussillon, Hérault.

In the musée Fleury, one can see about 30 discoid steles (funeral stones)
dating back to the time of the Templars (Middle Ages).

Lodève est une autre belle ville de l'Hérault.

Au musée Fleury, on peut voir une trentaine de stèles discoidales
(pierres funéraires) qui date du temps des Templiers (Moyen-Age).

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Pierrot le Zygo

I have wanted to introduce Pierre Guiraud, a.k.a. Pierrot le Zygo to you for a long time. Pierrot is a blogger from Lodève, Hérault. He is also a "politician." At least he has set up a list of candidates to the local election that is going to be held soon. It is not the first time that he has been doing so. Pierrot has a vivid imagination and a thousand ideas per minute. He has invented a robot that shakes hands with possible voters for him when he is too busy to do so by himself. Sculptor Nicolas Jouas made it for him. You can see the robot in the first photo, which is actually a screen capture. Pierrot frequently appears on TV and in newspapers. He has recently been shown in the news on France 2 channel.

The photos were taken on the Triangle, in Montpellier. Pierrot came in December and handed out postcards to be sent to president Sarkozy (telling him that everybody wanted to get a 120 % increase in their wages, just like him).

Pierrot's political list is named "Aux urnes, Citoyens" (roughly, "Citizens, go to the polls"). His party is the "parti coluchiste," after the name of the famous French stand up comedian Coluche who is dead now but who once ran for president.

He may look a bit eccentric but his action makes us question "regular" politicians (who have often so much disappointed their voters).

If I lived in Lodève, I would certainly vote for him!

(Like Pierrot, Coluche was not just a "comique": it is him who created the Restos du Coeur (to help homeless people).

ABC Wednesday C is for Celtic Culture

This is the famous dolmen de Coste Rouge, which is located in the park of the prieuré de Saint-Michel de Grandmont, on a hill near Lodève, in Hérault.

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Patrick Dubost

You are going to think that I have strange ideas, maybe. I like this photo of poet Patrick Dubost whom I heard reading some of his poems last Thursday. I like the composition, the geometry, the colors, the light, the poet's right hand :-) and the lines he was declaiming in a very particular way, accompanied by a musician.

Actually this photo was not taken in Montpellier but in Lodève (40 minutes from Montpellier). I am cheating a little, again. Patrick Dubost was the poet I liked best at the festival of poetry called "Les Voix de la Méditerranée."

The other poets I heard were from foreign countries. They read some of their poems in their mother tongue and then somebody read a translation. That was rather boring. I think some poems should not be translated.