A Tale of the Garonne River Informed by Dame Sidonie

It all started when the background of the village of Saint-Sixte in Large amount-et-Garonne had to be informed to the representatives of two other Saint-Sixte, a single in Savoy and the other in Haute-Loire. “The municipality at the time questioned me to introduce our village,” explains Corinne Chataignier-Serer, aka Dame Sidonie. You have compiled a selection of the legends transmitted by unique families of the country. Passionate about neighborhood tales, Corinne of course is aware of Mr. Janouille “the guides are often uninteresting, they observed him an original and dynamic way to tell his place. So I arrived up with the thought of ​​creating a character. I was motivated by personalities. that existed at the time of the excellent flood, in 1875, the 1 that marked the drop of navigation on the Garonne for us. Our village of origin was erased from the maps owing to this amazing flood and rebuilt later on. So the character is established in that time. I investigated the names given then frequently and Sidonie held a notable position. In my family members, my grandmother and mom were named Sidonie. When I outlined this name, lots of remembered listening to of a good-aunt Sidonie , the grandmother … who was also a gorgeous person.

Considering the fact that 2017 Dame Sidonie talks about her nation and its river throughout guided excursions. For the 2022 edition of the Garonne en fête this weekend, you have well prepared a distinctive wander on the sailors that will consider put the day ahead of the canoes go away Saint-Sixte (see also website page 21).

Dame Sidonie is inexhaustible on the river and its surroundings, at the time when the boats loaded with merchandise still left for the port of Bordeaux “before the less capricious channel of the railway, also and last but not least safer than the road that changed the boats of the Garonne “.

The wander it gives this Friday at 5pm invitations all those who would like to learn spectacular destinations which includes an remarkable making, witnesses of this previous lifestyle. “With weather alter, lack of drinking water or intense flooding, I come across this time vacation will make feeling.”

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