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“You might well ask up to this point if the Deserter had any kind of bag: a knapsack or bundle of some kind or anything like that, any kind of bag…
…He had painting things: paintbrushes and colours.”

JEAN GIONO

Le Déserteur © Gallimard

 He fled from village to village, from hamlet to hamlet. Hérémence is the place where he left the largest number of images, and he painted in all the villages Riod, Mâche, Euseigne, Vex, Salins, Les Agettes, Beauperrier, Baar, Brignon, Basse-Nendaz, Fey, Saclentse, Sornard, and Haute-Nendaz to which he often returned.

SAINT JOSEPH. SAINT JACQUES,
Patron of the Indies. SAINT JOHN, Evangelist.
C.F.B. at Beuson, 13 May 1867
32,3 x 48,1 cm. © Robert Hofer, Sion

SAINT JOHN OF THE FLOWERS.
SAINT GENEVIEVE countess of Brabant.
Jean-Pierre Jean- Barthélemy Dayer
at Saclenza, 7 January 1851. C.F.B.
39 x 49,5 cm. © Robert Hofer, Sion

 Note the shield of Saint Joseph that depicts carpentry tools, as found in Freemason imagery.

PATRIMOINE
PATRIMOINE
The granary is a building that is typically seen in the Alps. It is where grains and flour can be stored in optimal conditions as well as dried meat and even clothing, parchments and legal documents, to keep them away from moisture and rodents. The building is placed on a frame (àche in patois) made from the base beams and placed on the foundation wall. The large flat stones (paë in patois) on the pillars prevent rodents getting in, and the elevated bridge or plank means that the beans and other agricultural products can dry out. Every part of the barn belonged to distinct owners.

PATOIS
Prînj’o balûchon é föt’o can. I’m taking my bags and I’m off.

 “Flowers, they wilt!” as the song by Jacques Brel says. And why do we pick flowers? Why do we give them as a gift? What qualities do they have?

What is the longest walk you have ever done? Where were you?

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