Where there is talk of #Lot and #Lotois on social networks.
– What if, in this age of all-powerful digital technology, GPS, and other applications, we relied on good old maps? It is clear that they are trendy on social networks. Because they are generally very explicit and educational as can be. Here, for example, is the Légendes Cartographies account series devoted to the spread of the French language in the country and the world, and to the persistence of regional languages. Where we are told – or reminded – that it was not until the 16th century that French had the right to be used in our region, but that in the Lot, “Languedocian” continued to be used. However, with very limited transmission within educational establishments…
– Another example with the housing problem and the voluminous file that our colleagues from Les Echos have just devoted to it. And in particular the lack of stock of housing for rent. Where we learn that in the Lot, as of January 1, 2024, over one year, the stock had fallen by 32%. And thus appears in the departments most affected by this start of shortage. Rural areas are also very affected (-49% in Creuse and -41% in Mayenne for example).
– So, is there a correlation between this subject and the development of Airbnb-type platforms? The elected Lotois PS Rémi Branco thinks so, who enthusiastically relayed the post of his comrade Inaki Echaniz, deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques, who is leading a crusade in parliament for more “justice”: “People sleep in their cars due to lack of available housing while owners benefit from a 71% reduction and do not participate in the collective effort”pleads the deputy. “A big congratulations for these major advances which concern a fundamental right: access to housing in the territory where we live. This is an essential fight that I talk about in my book because the future of our rural areas is at stake” commented the vice-president of the Lot Department.
– Another card. It was broadcast at the beginning of the week by Le Parisien and highlights the disparities in prices (in mass distribution) from one region, or even from one department to another. We notice that in the Lot, prices (of supermarket shopping, therefore) are 1 to 5% higher than the national average. On this, if we wanted to be complete, we would have to compare housing prices, but also average incomes in the areas concerned…
– We conclude this long cartographic chapter with the inventory of groundwater tables as of May 1st posted online by the BGRM (National Geological Service). Where we note the absence of data for a (large) part of the Toulouse region but for the Lot, the situation is generally “green”: a level around the average.
– LR MP Aurélien Pradié intervened this week to ask the Minister of Agriculture to take stock of the measures decided in favor of Lot winegrowers affected by frost episodes. “Mr. Minister, the distress of Lot’s viticulture must be heard. It’s urgent ! » posted the parliamentarian who summarized Minister Fesneau’s response: “Three commitments obtained during the agricultural debate for our wine growers: renegotiate the European framework for calculating the Olympic average to allow the vineyard to insure itself; guarantee that the Lot will be eligible for grubbing premiums; launch of a mission of experts to support the profession in the long-term strategy”. First commitments obtained. The mobilization does not stop there” concluded Mr. Pradié. For information, since this notion (especially in this year of the Paris Olympics) may seem strange to newbies, the “Olympic average is calculated based on data from the last five years of production, removing the years with the highest and lowest numbers, and averaging the remaining three years” (Source Glosbe).
– The Vanguard WWII account brings together historians from various countries specializing in the Second War, under the coordination of Yannis Kadari. Note that the account is published in English. This week, 80 years later, he returned to the tragedy of Frayssinet-le-Gélat of May 21, 1944. “It is 5 p.m. in the sleepy village of Frayssinet-le-Gélat when two columns of vehicles from the SS Das-Reich division break the silence. The vehicles continue a little further then stop on the Cahors road. 90 minutes later, other SS arrived from the southwest and this time stopped in the center of the village. All entry and exit routes are now blocked. The soldiers jump out of the trucks and start searching the houses: all the men are rounded up and the telephone lines cut. A gunshot rings out from the Lugan family home. Inside are three women, they are dragged and hanged from an electric pole located in front of the current village hall. The eldest is Agathe Paillé, 80 years old, and she died with her nieces Juliette and Marguerite. Led by SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto-Erich Kahn of the Führer’s regiment, the SS then beat the men and looted the houses. The Lugan house is set on fire and the body of Agathe Paillé thrown inside. Twenty men are designated. Madame Wagner, local schoolteacher and wife of a Militia collaborator, speaks with the SS. Nine of the designated men were released – eleven were to die, shot in two groups against the church wall. The youngest, Guy Morgues, is 19 years old. Obviously, they face the peloton with courage. One of them, Georges Lafon, tries to escape but is shot dead. Mrs. W. refers to a woman suffering from health problems. Yvonne Vidilles is dragged by her hair and shot. The remaining men are responsible for removing the bodies and burying the dead in a mass grave that they must dig in the cemetery. The looting continued and some Germans spent the night in the village before leaving the next morning. Justice will come later for the W. couple and another local collaborator. They will end up receiving a visit from the local resistance fighters shortly after…. As for Kahn, he then fought in Normandy and survived the war. Sentenced to death in absentia during the Bordeaux trial of 1953, he escaped justice and died near Münster in 1977. A few days later the tragedy of Oradour took place… But note that the account in the Vanguard account does not mention that as was the case in Oradour, some of the villagers of Frayssinet-le-Gélat were locked up in the church until ‘early morning. But fortunately it was not set on fire.
