https:\/\/www.journaldemillau.fr\/2019\/03\/16\/stevenson-et-les-cevennes-une-histoire-damour\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe following is an English translation of the article thanks to Odile Guigon our member from Mende:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stevenson and the Cevennes, a love story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n(Translated from an article published by Journal de Millau.fr on Monday, March 18th<\/sup>, 2019<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn its first issue of this year, Causses et C\u00e9vennes<\/em> magazine honours the most famous \u201cEnglishman\u201d (sic!) of the Cevennes: Robert Louis Stevenson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n140 years have passed since Robert Louis Stevenson rambled the Cevennes in 1878 with his donkey from Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille near Le Puy to St-Jean-du-Gard. Stevenson\u2019s life and works and Le Club C\u00e9venol have followed tracks which often crossed. As announced at the Club\u2019s 1878 general meeting in Millau, this special issue of Causses et C\u00e9vennes<\/em> \u2013the Club\u2019s magazine- is dedicated to the writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStevenson died three months before Le Club C\u00e9venol was created. As early as 1901 the Club published the first summarised French translation of his travels through Velay, G\u00e9vaudan and Cevennes. In 1978 the centenary of this walking trip was widely celebrated through various events which the magazine narrates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A pageant evoking 1878 Cevennes with a dance and parade was followed by a huge banquet attended by numerous Scots wearing the traditional kilt. On that anniversary a new version of the account of the trip was published thanks to the discovery in a Californian library of the original school notebook in which Stevenson had written down the details of his walk. The present issue of the magazine describes the long and meticulous work which made possible the publication of the full text of the journal abundantly enriched by live testimonies and details about late 19th<\/sup> century context in our region.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Journal de route en C\u00e9vennes<\/em> published by Editions Privat and Le Club C\u00e9venol in France and Mainstream Publishing in Scotland (under the title The<\/em> C\u00e9vennes Journal<\/em>) appeared in May 1978. The Stevenson path was signposted by Le Club C\u00e9venol, Syndicat d\u2019initiative (=Tourist Office) of Le Monastier and Association Drailles between 1977 and 1978 under the supervision of Raymond Senn, chairman of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de Randonn\u00e9e (the main French walkers association). For the last twenty years, the path \u2013now \u201cGR70, chemin de Stevenson\u201d (long-distance trail 70, The Stevenson Trail)- has been looked after by the Association Sur le Chemin de Stevenson. About 7000 walkers use it every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFinally, the delicious account written by Caroline Patterson for National Geographic<\/em> is one of the many anecdotes with compose this rich special issue of the magazine \u2013she wanted to experience the trip in the same conditions as Stevenson, complete with donkey and bivouacking. Robert Louis Stevenson contributed to make our region known throughout the world, Le Club C\u00e9venol continue its defence and promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\nJournal de route en C\u00e9vennes<\/em> can still be found on the net (Editions Privat\/Club C\u00e9venol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contributor: Christian Brochier The path of the C\u00e9vennes and the history of its rediscovery, from its first integral waymarking (1977) to the (very) festive events that marked the centenary of the “travels in the C\u00e9vennes with a donkey “. We owe it all to the Club C\u00e9venol, an avant-garde Association created in 1994 to publicize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlstevenson-europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}