Where it is a question of the #Lot and the #Lotois on social networks.
– We begin in a slightly playful way by evoking St. Patrick’s Day, which we know is very celebrated in Ireland. But should we turn it into a beer festival? It’s the Anglo-Saxons who answer us… To his friend Pete who explains that he’s going to celebrate it by drinking a Malbec made in Argentina, Steve From Normandy sharply retorts on Twitter: “Me with a French Cahors!” ».
– We continue with this funny not so funny poll initiated on Twitter by the account “ School and forgotten families which is defined as a “parents’ group for a safe school in the face of #Covid19” : “In the Lot, in your opinion, for 6-10 year olds, 70 is: the incidence rate? The positivity rate? The number of children with masks? ». As it can be neither the 1 nor the 3… In the replies to the tweet, the speakers suggest that we can guess that the measures to lift the constraints were premature.
– This amazing find spotted on the Twitter account Passion Medievalists which is addressed, it will be understood, to researchers, specialists and enthusiasts of the Middle Ages and its history. The post is illustrated with a drawing. And the message is: “They look like children, don’t they? It is actually a bishop with mitre, crosier and stole in front of a kneeling knight in lamellar armor. Graffiti in the margin of the Cahors Sacramentary, around 909-950, departmental archives of Dordogne…” We read this response from Charlemagne MMXXII to the first tweet: « I want to say that for any complaint, you have to blame me, it was me who made the description. My hypothesis of the lamellar is mainly due to the period and the size of the plates, it seemed consistent with the Carolingian equipment but I am not infallible. » To which Analog Mag Dog retorts: “ Ualternative being that Diogenes kneeling before a bishop is not very credible… » It is true that the armor looks a bit like a barrel…
– We continue with a long thread (or series of messages) on Twitter from Mr Blue Sky devoted to the inauguration of Toulouse station as seen by the media of the time. Extracts. « Imagine that I discovered (it had escaped me until now) that there were two dates for the inauguration of the Toulouse station: April 2 and 22, 1857. The kind of thing that tires me… The date of April 2 appears in particular on the Urban-Hist site in the notice devoted to the station. The date of April 22 is present in the history of the station on the SNCF’s Stations and connections site… In fact, the real inauguration took place a year earlier, but this inauguration of 1857 is the symbolic date, that of the meeting of a train from Bordeaux and another from Cette (Sète) each carrying one of the Pereire brothers. » We then pass the speeches and menus of the banquets. Then, in the Journal de Toulouse dated April 11, Mr Blue Sky identifies “an article (which) criticizes (already) the route of the railway lines, saying that now that it’s done, it’s impossible to change and that we will have to be careful for the future (the line to Foix) . » A user then worries: “What is the problem for the Foix line? The Toulouse-Portet route? » Historian’s response: “No, in fact, they campaigned (in 1857) for a major North-South Lille-Soissons-Paris-Orléans-Blois (or Vierzon)-Limoges-Cahors-Montauban-Toulouse-Foix line which would be the backbone of the network French… ” We know the rest. There was no main North-South line bypassing Paris. More than a century and a half later, we are still paying the price when considering the financing of the LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse…
– Note again this tweet from François PlayBac also editor-in-chief of Le Petit Quotidien which reports comments by Philippe Vandel, journalist specializing in the media on Europe 1: “ I can’t take this hackneyed title any longer: “LES SECRETS DE…. » The secrets of the cucumber… The secrets of the gendarmes of Cahors… “We reassure the friend Vandel however. The gendarmes here have no secrets.
– We conclude with a (quality) video posted on YouTube by the very serious European Mycological Institute dedicated to Lalbenque and its famous market, relayed by the Twitter account Trufforum Official and these heartbreaking words from Nino Ferrer: “I have to fill my eyes / My heart / Soon nothing will be there” (in the song « A man in space » written and composed in the Lot in 1995). The show Invitation to travel d’Arte, Wednesday evening, was devoted to him, thus titled: ” It looks like the Quercy of Nino Ferrer ». Both moving and poetic. What a great local ambassador he was… We follow in the footsteps of the artist from Blanat to Montcuq via Crayssac.
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