Let's speak Occitan?

The Dronne river is about a kilometer north of Rouge in Tocane. Nowadays the Dronne is your average pretty river (good for kingfishers and canoes) but there is a lot of evidence (in the form of exposed and eroded rock walls) of a much wilder prehistoric youth. This means that the Dronne Valley is actually quite wide, maybe five or so kilometers in our part of the world.
Why the interest? Like our website says (if you arrived here via another route) the northern side of the Dronne Valley is said to be the north-western limit of the Languedoc. The Dronne rises southwest of Limoges and continues south-west to Coutras, near Libourne. So we, in Tocane St Apre (or Tocane Sent Abre in Occitan) are within the Occitan region, Occitania.
Occitan, the mother tongue of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard Lionheart and all those Provencal poets. A language that has (maybe that should be had though the latest elections had all parties promising to re-invigorate it) about four times as many words as French. An geographic area that stretched from Spain to Italy. Try the Occitan link for more information.

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This is a test. The photo is of Janice and Paul.