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City Of Vienne:
HAUTE-VIENNE, ot vyen, is a department in the central massif of France, in the former provinces of Limousin and Marche. Low mountains (Monts d'Ambazac—2,300 feet, or 701 meters) rise above wide plateaus covered mostly with small, hedged fields, but including areas of moorland and bog. High rainfall encourages the growth of grass, the basis of beef and milk production.
The Vienne and Gartempe rivers and their tributaries cut deep and often dramatic valleys into the plateaus; many of them are dammed for power production.The custom of processions on these days had its rise in the city of Vienne in Gaul about the middle of the 5th century, when, the city having been visited with earthquakes, fires and other grave calamities, the bishop, Saint Mamertus, ordered a solemn fast and public supplication of three days to appease the divine indignation: and thereafter the three days' supplication was practised annually, the custom spreading throughout Gaul and beyond the Alps. Everywhere these processions were suppressed in England after the Reformation.
If you would like to read a spirited report on La Pyramide, and on French cookery customs in all such temples of ban-quetry, go to some library and look up Joseph Wechsberg's article in an old New Yorker, the issue of Sept. 3, 1949. What he wrote then is just as true today, and will be true, I venture to predict, when your children and grandchildren visit Vienne. Old dynasties of cookery such as that of Point do not die out in France, nor do they fade away.
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