GR70

GR70: in the footsteps of Stevenson through the Cevennes

September 1878. Robert Louis Stevenson, 28, starts in Monastier-sur-Clermont a 12-days hiking trip that will become the GR®70, one of the most famous trail in France.

Tormented, heartbroken, the apprentice writer from Scotland intended to visit the mythical Cevennes he only knows from stories when he was a child: protestant, revolted and clandestine. But confused by old maps, he only entered the heart of the Cevennes 4 days before he arrived in Saint-Jean-du-Gard. His hiking trip bring him through the Velay, the Gevaudan and the Mont Lozere, from North to South.

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Travels with or without a donkey in the Cevennes

The Cevennes is not only a territory of chaotic meteorological effects, of past religious wars and a hiking spot for depressed writers. More than that, it is an identity, a culture, an heritage of nature and humanity.

The complex history of the Cevennes

South of Central France, the heart of this hilly territory is situated between the towns of Ales, Ganges, Lodeve, Mende and Millau. When King Louis XIV revoked the freedom of religion, most Protestants fled outside France. But not in the Cevennes, where they hide and try to survive, fighting against the monarchy.

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