The Cahiers de la Haute-Loire, which will be 60 years old, have just published their 2024 edition. Unpublished chronicles can be discovered in this large volume.
We hesitate to talk about the Cahiers de la Haute-Loire as an institution, at the risk of making the publication appear outdated. Because this is not the case. If the Cahiers deal with local history, they have made great efforts to be “up to date”. Every year, the release of the new opus creates an event. At the end of last week, the president of the Cahiers association, Didier Perre, the honorary president Christian de Seauve, the publishing director Jean-Bernard Moné and the team of authors, loyal or more occasional, met at the Yssingeaux media library for the release of the latest issue. This large volume of 320 pages, entirely in color, takes us on a journey from antiquity to the pilgrimage on the Way of Saint James, passing by cottages and castles but also in Egypt.
The content is rich
In Medieval dynamics in Velay, Pierre Éric Poble paints a panorama of the country of Sucs and Yssingeaux from the 5th to the 12th century. A very inspiring subject for Nicolas Hausser from the municipality of Yssingeaux, in charge of laying the foundations of the future city museum.
As we continue reading, we are given the opportunity to enter into the intimacy of two castles. With Philippe Ramona, the castle of La Bernarde (Espaly) while Reginald Henry meets the reader in the park of the castle of Figon (Raucoules).
The Cahiers de la Haute-Loire 2023 to discover
More modest residences are not left out with Michel Engles, in The roofs of the habitat in the mandement of Eynac in the 17th century. Jean Mourier, for his part, describes the Trintinhac farmhouse and its mills in Cayres.
Different plagues affected the town of Puy and Velay until the 18th century. With Modernity of the plague stories in the Liber De Podio (1481-1557), Marie-Laure Monfort analyzes these epidemics through the testimony of the great Ponot chronicler, Étienne Médicis. We remain in this theme with Bernard Galland. The chronicle is named On the site of the Clos Saint-Sébastien in Puy-en-Velay, founded during the plague of 1526.
The corpus of ancient Occitan texts relating to Velay is enriched thanks to Vincent Surrel and Martin de Framond. Their study: the Occitan texts of Philippe IV de Lévis-Lautrec, lord of Roche-en-Régnier, and his entourage (1398-1413).
Thibault Sauzaret wrote: From Frison-Roche to Boudon-Lashermes, Garamantes en Velay, a fantasy story. He returns to the final theories of Albert Boudon-Lashermes concerning the population of Velay. Finally, in an unpublished tale by Alix de Lachapelle d’Apchier (1871-1954), The man who carried the gourd and the shell, the stick and the souquenille, we discover a pilgrim in Santiago de Compostela, with very special powers who will turn out to be no ordinary walker.
This latest issue of Cahiers de la Haute-Loire is printed in 400 copies. It can be ordered from www.cahiersdelahauteloire.fr or from booksellers. The number is €32. The Cahiers de la Haute-Loire editions publish and distribute other works. Let us highlight an expected reissue of the famous Toponymie du Velay by Jean Arsac, renamed Place names in Velay.
As the end-of-year holidays approach, a trio of authors, Didier Perre, Hervé Quesnel and Martin de Framond, offer 65 Christmases including 14 in Occitan taken from the work of Natalis Cordat (1610-1663), vicar of Cussac-sur-Loire. The publication doubles as a CD.
Philippe Suc
