radiation intellectual and moral Gabre
Michel Begon April 2007
fields of operation of our families of gentlemen glassmakers have covered almost all major forest regions of southwestern France, since the Black Mountain and Grésigne and since Plantaurel or Volvestre up Comminges and even Agen. Yet Gabre has emerged since the eighteenth century as the spiritual focal point of these families are dispersed and apparently he remained far Because as well our combination of Awakened is always his command. Explain how such radiation?
Although the current common Gabre has never been heavily populated. It had 611 inhabitants in 1831, the 11,532 inhabitants of the Canton of Mas d'Azil 2875 and cons for this town alone. Again in 1861, it had 610, just before the great migration from rural areas and the general population decline. It was never a strong agglomeration. Today, its resident population does not exceed the 80 souls.
Gabre do not even stood in the geographical center of the glass family, since it merely the southern extension of their dispersion and that in the eighteenth century, glassmakers Gabra have spread especially to the great west.
Maybe it was the memory of the legendary original castle EMISSIONS OF KOREA, located no more than 5 or 6 miles Gabre, and the destruction of 1621 could exalt the dream of Paradise Lost. In any case, Gabre was a mecca for spiritual gatherings, the times of persecution, probably due to this prestigious memory, thanks mainly to its high density Huguenot and thanks to its natural refuges. Was throughout the Protestant community in south-west one of the best "Deserts" possible illegal cults around the pastors sent from Geneva. The gentlemen glassmakers there assured the armed service order and close protection.
It seems that large assemblies will be collected on the limestone plateau that truncates the Plantaurel, at an altitude of 500 meters, covered under the oaks, and more specifically the site of LA Couderé, there when, 250 years later, awakened to find itself. In 1735, 4,000 participants joined the cult underground and there shots were exchanged with some spyware. In 1745, two meetings of the Desert attracted to the first 4000 people, the second 2,500, from walking around and even Castres. These figures are they exaggerated? Anyway, of such inflows could not remain discrete and sanctions followed, with arrests, imprisonment and heavy fines. Other meetings of the Desert were also held, but with a smaller number of assistants, glassware gabraise LA BADEN, Pointe-Mercenac Plantaurel or on the side of comrades in this tragic period running from 1685 to 1762 until the end of police persecution, which the three cases of simultaneous Calas, Sirven and three brothers ATTIC brought a victorious conclusion. These data are included in the book Alice WEMYSS on "Protestants du Mas d'Azil (Privat-1961).
Even when the glass Plantaurel were all off, the gentlemen Gabre-glassmakers continued to form a strong corporate community. The list of families Gabre in 1861 lists no fewer than 12 master glassblowers, exploiting the winter at Pointe-Mercenac and residing in the country this summer, Learn namely: Jean-Paul and the Philidor ROBERT GARILS Philibert ROBERT-Labarthe, Jules ROBERT, ROBERT Alphonse, all from the village, and Robert Francis, Paul Grenier, John and Jeremiah GRENIER, Robert Alexander BOUSQUET-(my own great-great grandfather), living Comavère, Jacques de Grenier MARTON for Lastermes finally Leon de Grenier LALE at Magnou.
Paradoxically, the late Pointis glassworks in 1883 stimulated the intellectual influence of Gabre. The son of abandoned cane glass blower and the sword of the nobility, the intellectual and moral activism. They became pastors, staff writers or by acquiring and disseminating a rich store of knowledge and virtues. Initially, this approach was not unique to Gabre, but the whole environment of the country reformed, since Pierre Bayle, the son of Pastor Carla, and Napoleon Peyrat, born in the Bordes-surArize and pastor himself, showed the way. It was also the pastor of Caussade GRENIER-Fajal of Onesimus, who in 1886 edited in Montauban's famous book on "François Rochette and three brothers ATTIC, by which was first forged the legend of our families canopies . Then, the Gabra Elisha OF ROBERT GARILS published In 1903 the family reference book, reprinted twice in 1973 by Robert of Dora and Robert GARILS Planchon, then by Philippe ROBERT LABARTHE in 2000: "Gentlemen-glass-A commander, a village." In 1975, Pastor Andre ROBERT LABARTHE awake and founded in 1984, created the Symposium Gabre. It had already 23 sessions. Today still, the pastor and theologian Philippe ROBERT-Labarthe, citizen Gabre, perpetuating this intellectual and moral influence by his writings, lectures, symposia by which it organizes, especially around Pierre Bayle, or the exposures that Ariège boss. Pastor Roger Parmentier (ROBERT LASSAGNE) publishes Bible study and brings together theological seminaries. Bordreuil stone (from GRENIER-Fajal), grand-son of a pastor, wrote about biblical archeology. Olivier Robert-Labarthe, son of Philip, is known throughout the Ariege and to Paris as a storyteller of the epic legends and the Cathar Pyrenees. It would not be complete without mentioning also the psychiatrist Paul Sivadon (from VERBIZIER LATREYTE), the ethologist CABANAC Michael (Robert De LAFREGEYRE), the archivist Agnes Parmentier and physicist Michael GONDRAN (ROBERT-Labarthe), chairman of the Academy International Science, whose publications have reached all over Europe and even America.
short, the Enlightenment, once kindled the great BAYLE across Europe, flames again and again over the valley and the high "quayres" of Gabre. There is a case of spiritual continuity at the same place that should attract the attention of historians and sociologists.
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