Hello,
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| Flaujagues and the falling leaves |
A beautiful weekend, with a sunny Sunday and we headed out
to the brocantes in Flaujagues and the centre of Ste Foy. It was great to see people out and about in
T-shirts as October draws to a close.
This is possibly the quietest week I have ever known… The
events are particularly sparse (not even any films at the local cinemas), so
please if you hear of anything, let me know and I’ll add it in, even if it’s
really short notice. It feels like the
changing of the clocks has sent the Gironde and Dordogne regions into
hibernation!
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| The centre of Ste Foy - full of folks |
Have a great week – keep busy, even if it’s just sweeping
leaves!
Best wishes,
Helen
Week 44 2013
Monday 28 October
Tuesday 29 October
Wednesday 30 October
Thursday 31 October
Friday 1 November
1 November is a public holiday called La Toussaint. Today many French people honour the lives of
their deceased relatives by putting flowers on the family graves –
traditionally chrysanthemums. Most shops
and restaurants will be closed as people generally try and spend the day with
their family. By the way, even though
you might think that chrysanthemums would make a great gift – don’t try
offering them to a French person, here they are flowers for the dead.
1 - 30 November : Pottery Exhibition at the Vitrine du Pays Foyen. Pop in and have a look next time you are shopping at the big Leclerc at Pineuilh.
1 - 30 November : Pottery Exhibition at the Vitrine du Pays Foyen. Pop in and have a look next time you are shopping at the big Leclerc at Pineuilh.
Saturday 2 November
2 – 3 November : Issigeac Christmas Fair organised by
MADS. Held at Issigeac Chateau.
2 November 11h30 : Opening of the Pottery Exhibition at the Vitrine next to the Grand Pineuilh Leclerc. All welcome.
2 November : Piano concert by a premier Russian concert pianist, Anait Karpova from the Moscow Conservatory to celebrate the church bell benediction at Castelmoron-d'Albret.
To find out more and to reserve tickets call 06 07 78 62 16. Entrance €20
Sunday 3 November
Sunday 3 November
Traffic free Sunday in Bordeaux – the roads are closed for the first Sunday of the month.
3 November : Concert in the church at Ste Foy featuring
David Olaizola and les Chanteurs Pyreneens de Tarbes. Entrance €12
Coming up…
And finally… Not a lot of people know this… (Thank you
J&PL)
"The ending '-ac'
exists not only in the Dordogne, but in the Auvergne, the Massif Central, Lot,
Aveyron and Tarn which were Celtic before the Roman invasions '-ac' means
'village'
Or possibly the suffix derived from
-iacus, a latin suffix of the Gallo-Roman period, denoting simply possession.
For example, "the villa of Aurelius" was written as Aureliacum, which
became Aurillac.
In the particular case of
South-western France today the city names combine very often the celtic '-ac'
or the Roman '-Iacus' and the name of the first Roman colonist to whom the
estate was granted -
Examples:
Marminiac - village of Marminius
Souillac - village of Solius
Salviac - village of Salvius ( Salge )
Salviac - village of Salvius ( Salge )
Segonzac - village of Secundus
etc.etc
Sometimes we have named items
after the villages.
Examples:
Armagnac
Cognac
Cadillac
Coulibiac
Bivouac
Almanac
Shellac
Celeriac
Zodiac
Lilac
and
Yashmac
In other cases the type of
person residing in the village gave the town its name -
Examples:
Bulimiac
Amnesiac
Bibliomaniac
Haemophiliac
Egomaniac
Pyromaniac
Hypochondriac
etc.etc.
