![]() ![]() ![]() Next day they moved southward in a changed landscape. Their trip ended at Saint-Jean du Garde, only 50 miles from the Mediterranean. On a 12-day trek through the Cevennes, Stevensons cross to bear was Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of. British relevision did a special on Stevenson's trek, too. The new edition of his book has attracted tourists to the monastery and also the region. Minus the writer, who had to rest, they visited the Trappist monastery of Notre-Dame des Neiges, which Stevenson had also visited. They went through quite an ordeal skiing in the midst of a snow storm. It was arranged for them to stay at the farmhouse of Regis & Francoise Malzieu & later at the home of Marite Pereira. In telling about the progress of their trek writer intersperses quotes from Stevenson. They met shortly after New Year's Day in the Savoie resort of La Plagne where Jaccoux and Colette had winter quarters. It was planned as a multi-day cross-country ski tour and they were to visit many of the places Stevenson had visited. ![]() Writer travelled with his friend, the Chamonix guide, Claude Jaccoux, & his wife, Colette, plus a woman friend. This version, entitled: "The Cevennes Journal", edited by Gordon Golding, includes not only the journal but also a set of marvellous notes. In 1978, on the hundredth anniversary of his trek, the whole of his journal was published by the Club Cevenol, a non-profit organization of people native to or interested in the Cevennes. The trip was partly in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson as recorded in his travel classic "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes". REPORTER AT LARGE about travelling in the Cevennes mountains in southeastern France. ![]()
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