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The Gestapo raged here too.

beautiful path through the fields

An unassuming memorial to a Resistance fighter

メンデはロゼール県の最も重要な都市です。紀元前200年に遡る、本当に古い街です。その評判は、多くのメディア時代の建物にあります。とりわけ、不均等な鐘楼という奇妙な特徴を持つ壮大な大聖堂を発見することができます。この街の富は、一部には織物の生産によるもので、ラングドック地方とオーヴェルニュ地方の間の重要な商業の交差点となりました。私は特に、水の上で自転する巨大な石の球を持つ噴水が好きです。

Beautiful old town with a very good shopping street to stroll around and a beautiful large church

Very pretty forest path, rolling, on the side of the Causse de Mende

Great place to stop for a view of Mende.

On the Causse de Mende, above the town, there are two villages which were sold to the State by their last inhabitants in 1905: Gerbal and La Chaumette. At this date, there remains an inhabitant in Gerbal and a family in La Chaumette. We are far from the fifteen families who lived here at the beginning of the 19th century. These villages lived off the breeding of sheep and the cultivation of wheat. But from the 16th century, the demand for wool exploded in Europe. The herds are growing, which leads to the deforestation of more and more areas and the exhaustion of land. It is therefore depleted and leached land which is ceded to the State, which establishes the current forest there. Of these villages there remain the ruins of the dwellings, with the exception of a Chaumette complex restored by the ONF in the 1960s. These houses, entirely in limestone, are models of the Caussenard habitat. The main building has two levels, ground floor housing and the floor dedicated to storage, is accompanied by a sheepfold surmounted by its barn. All of these constructions are made of stone, there is no wood of sufficient quality and size or at too high a cost. There were only two villages because there are only two sources of water, which had to supplement several cisterns and lavognes (artificial pond to water the cattle).