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\b\f1\fs22\ul FRENCH JOURNEY - PROGRAMME 1
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\par CEVENNES - PROTESTANTS}{\f1\fs22\ul 
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\par }\pard\plain \s15\widctlpar\adjustright \lang2057\cgrid {\i\f1\fs22 North of Montpellier lie the lush, green hills of the Cevennes. This is an area indelibly associated with France\rquote s Wars of Religion in the 16}{\i\f1\fs22\super th}{\i\f1\fs22 
 Century, when these mountains became the hiding place of Protestants fleeing Catholic persecution. Generations later many Protestants still make their home there. David went to visit one such family.}{  
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\par }{\i\f1\fs22 Deep in the hills lies Mollezon, a tiny hamlet of no more than half a dozen families that is typical of the small Protestant enclaves that nestle in the heart of the Cevennes.
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\par At Yvan Etienne\rquote s house, three generations of his family regularly meet for meals whose ingredients they largely grow or raise themselves.
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\par }\pard\plain \ri-51\widctlpar\adjustright \fs20\lang2057\cgrid {\b\f1\fs22 Yvan Etienne family 1:}{\f1\fs22   This afternoon we're going to see what sort of computer we get.
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\par }{\b\f1\fs22 Yvan Etienne family 2:}{\f1\fs22   Are you not going to do history?
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\par }{\b\f1\fs22 Yvan Etienne family 1: }{\f1\fs22 \'85Geography, but the guy is going to come and deliver the computers.
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\par }{\b\f1\fs22 Yvan Etienne family 2:}{\f1\fs22   Ah, right.
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\par }\pard \widctlpar\adjustright {\i\f1\fs22 Although 75 years old, grandfather Yvan still looks after four vegetable plots. He invited David on a guided tour.
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\par David:}{\f1\fs22   So this is your vegetable garden?
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\par Yvan Etienne:   }{\f1\fs22 Everything grows in this region - beans, aubergines, tomatoes - all the vegetables come up  It's a poor region, but to die of starvation - you'd have to be extremely lazy.
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\par David:}{\f1\fs22   Does your son have a vegetable garden?
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\par Yvan Etienne:  }{\f1\fs22 No, he's busy with his goats  They come to Dad's vegetable garden.  When I grow vegetables,  it's for the whole family I don't do it for my wife and myself,  I do it for the family.
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\par }\pard\plain \s15\widctlpar\adjustright \lang2057\cgrid {\i\f1\fs22 Son Bernard farms dairy goats for a living. It\rquote s a hand to mouth existence as the land up here is largely inaccessible to modern farm machinery, but he doesn\rquote 
t see this as his biggest problem.
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\par David:}{\f1\fs22   What's the biggest problem about this lifestyle, living here?
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\par }{\b\f1\fs22 Bernard Etienne:  }{\f1\fs22 
Well, the biggest handicap for me is the children's schooling.  Very early on, you have to send your children away to boarding school at ten years old.  It's a bit tough.  I feel the children are penalised, so that's a handicap.
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\par }\pard\plain \s15\widctlpar\adjustright \lang2057\cgrid {\i\f1\fs22 Bernard has two sons. His eldest has moved to the city, while the youngest - Nathana\'ebl}{\b\i\f1\fs22  }{\i\f1\fs22 
- is still at home and brings the goats in for milking every day after school.
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\par }\pard \widctlpar\adjustright {\b\f1\fs22 David:}{\f1\fs22   How many goats do you have on the farm?
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\par Nathana\'ebl Etienne:}{\f1\fs22   On the farm? 130
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\par David:}{\f1\fs22   130?  
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\par Nathana\'ebl Etienne:}{\f1\fs22    Because there are 120 here.  There are some that don't go out.
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\par David:}{\f1\fs22   Why?
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\par Nathana\'ebl Etienne:}{\f1\fs22    Some are tiny ones that can't go out yet.  There's one that broke her leg, so we put it in plaster.
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\par }{\b\f1\fs22 David:}{\f1\fs22   Do you like living in the country?  What do you like best?
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\par Nathana\'ebl Etienne:}{\f1\fs22   I like everything about farming -  tractors, fields, ploughing.
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\par David:}{\f1\fs22   What don't you like?
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\par Nathana\'ebl Etienne:}{\f1\fs22   What I really don't like is hunting I used to like it, but nowadays hunting is all about pastis and who has the best jeep.
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\par }{\i\f1\fs22 Talking to them now it\rquote s hard to imagine that these people have had such a violent past. For although the Cevennes are lush and green, the Protestants in exile here called them \lquote the desert\rquote 
, a reference to their sense of being outcasts.
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\par }\pard\plain \s15\widctlpar\adjustright \lang2057\cgrid {\i\f1\fs22 Until 1685 Protestants had periodically been tolerated. Then the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes unleashed an unprecedented wave of persecution. Protestants who weren\rquote 
t killed or imprisoned fled for their lives. Banned from having churches or celebrating religious ceremonies, they held vast assemblies in remote outdoor locations. Services such as this clandestine baptism were held under cover of darkness.}{ }{
\i\f1\fs22 As memories of persecution fade into history, the Protestants\rquote  land of exile - the desert - has nevertheless become their home.
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\par }{\b\f1\fs22 David:}{\f1\fs22   You're a Protestant in a Catholic country - have you ever experienced prejudice?
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\par }{\b\f1\fs22 Yvan Etienne:  }{\f1\fs22 No. When we were young, there was more of a difference.  When a Protestant married a Catholic..it was usually the Protestant who gave way to the Catholic.  I'm happy to say it's no longer a problem.
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\par David:}{\f1\fs22   Is it important to you...that your children and grandchildren share your faith?
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\par Yvan Etienne:  }{\f1\fs22 I hope so. It gives me some comfort and pleasure.
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\par }{\i\f1\fs22 And as if to prove that you can put roots down even in the desert, the local Protestants have an anthem to their country of exile. It\rquote s called La Cevennole.
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\par Yvan Etienne}{\f1\fs22  (singing):}{\b\f1\fs22   }{\f1\fs22 Greetings, beloved mountain, sacred land of our ancestors Your green peaks are strewn with their glorious memories\'85.
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