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Updated: May 31, 2025
Although in the watershed of the Gironde, it touches Auvergne, and its altitude makes it partake very much of the Auvergnat climate, which, with the exception of the favoured Limagne Valley, is harsh, to an extent that has caused many a visitor to flee from Mont-Dore in the month of August.
"Far from here in one of the uplands of the Mont-Dore." "How old are you, little Odille?" "My mother said to me this spring: 'Odille, it is to-day fourteen years that you have been the joy of my life." "How did you become the slave of the Frankish count? Tell us your history." "My father died young. I lived in the mountain with my grandfather, my brother and my mother.
She was now drinking the waters at Mont-Dore, whither she had not dared to take her children, as they had been very poorly the year before, after a season spent in that part, where the air was too keen for them.
Then I left the valley in order to pass through the village of St. Sauve on the right-hand hill. There was little there worth seeing besides a very ancient Romanesque archway, or, as some think, detached portico leading to the church. Many of the women of St. Sauve wore the black cap or bonnet of Mont-Dore, which hangs to the shoulders.
Too happy to be able to escape the massacre with a few others of our band, and to dive into the thickest of the woods, after giving ourselves one of our haunts, the rocks on the peak of Mont-Dore, for rendezvous I fled.
"To the beam; tie the bear to the beam!" Karadeucq led the lover of the bishopess to a corner of the hall, chained him to one of the beams of the colonnade, put between his paws the knotty club on which he had been riding and said to him: "Come, my poor Mont-Dore; courage; you will have to defend yourself well, seeing that you have to fight against two dogs for the amusement of the noble seigneurs; show yourself worthy of your race."
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