Provence
About Provence
Provence is a geographical, cultural region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It largely corresponds with the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and includes the departments of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, as well as parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Vaucluse. The largest city of the region and its modern-day capital is Marseille.
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A local waitress called Fanny said, "You'll have to kiss me on the cheek if you lose." Then when the mayor lost really, really badly, she said, "Well, you have to kiss me on the bum now." Some clubs in Provence have special rugs to kneel on while you're kissing the statuette of the woman called Fanny on the arse.
from No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 at 00:38:45 · read transcript
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He had terrible rheumatism, so I asked if you could do it sitting down. His friend said yes, and they agreed to be stationary when they threw the ball as well. That is petonc, which comes from the Provence words, ped tanco, which means feet still. I think that's really nice as an origin, because it originates in basically early disability rights. Because it used to be much more active.
220: No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 · listen
Yeah. I think that's really nice as an origin because it originates in basically early disability rights. Right? Because it used to be much more active. I think in Provence, it was called Provence Long. You threw the ball really far. It was often about throwing the ball quite a long way. The ball, for some reason, I couldn't discover, was sheathed in nails. It resulted in so many injuries in the 18th and 19th centuries that it was banned almost everywhere.
No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 · listen
So he said he would call it crayon à papier, as in a crayon for paper, or a crayon à mien, and which seems to mean crayon of the mine, which is very weird. Then he said, but also apparently you can call it crayon de papier. My friend who's from Provence said, if someone asked me for a crayon de papier, I would very politely give him a pencil, and I would ask him to go and draw some stick figures, you functional illiterate, because that means a pencil made of paper. Wow.
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