NORBERT MARTY - A GARDEN OF MEMORIES
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Norbert Marty was born June 18 1928.
In those days it was nothing but wheelbarrows and handcarts.
12 years later the jet plane was to break the sound barrier. And, before anyone
knew it, a new age had dawned. Norbert, who has spent his whole life working the land and holding market stalls,
just had to put pen to paper and give us an account of those bygone days which now seem as
remote as the Middle Ages.
And so, page after page,
he wrote his simple and moving story, relating the way life went on in those olden times
"when time stood still".
A historian and journalist to the core, he painstakingly pursued his research and,
at the age of 78, he knows the history of Le Bugue like nobody else. He has kindly handed us the
first few pages of his manuscript and we have printed them below. We wish to thank him for
this delightful treat.
He also explained to us the origin of Le Bugue's name: "AL BUGA", established on the
banks of the Vézère river twelve centuries ago. Browse through the pages and drift down
the river to wherever our conversation took us. Enjoy these wonderfully happy moments that
Norbert Marty offers you: a bouquet of memories from his very own garden of memories.
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J'avais toujours rêvé
d'écrire les moments forts
de ma jeunesse, de ma vie.
Et ça sans prétention aucune.
Loin de moi l'idée de m'instituer
écrivain. Non, pas du tout.
J'ai eu envie tout simplement pour
que mes descendants et
les générations futures
sachent, à part l'histoire
de France où il n'est question
que de Rois, de seigneurs,
de manants, mais sans aller
au fond des choses.
C'est Eugène Le Roy qui a
le mieux expliqué la vie de
cette époque avec ses livres
"Au pays des Pierres"
"Le moulin du Frau"
"Jacquou le Croquant" etc...
Je n'ai jamais eu la prétention
et l'audace de me comparer
à ce grand Maître du Périgord.
Mais après avoir trouvé dans
le grenier, mon stradivarius des
souvenirs familiaux, j'étais
obligé d'expliquer tout ça
pour la postérité. Ne l'ayant
pas vécu, ils n'auraient pas
pu comprendre, et n'auraient
jamais su qui était qui !!
J'ai commencé timidement
il y a 10 ans à noter à mesure
que certains souvenirs me revenaient
à mesure que le temps
a passé, je me suis aperçu
que ça me devenait plus
facile d'expliquer, de
m'exprimer, d'écrire.
Mais pourquoi ?
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