Rocamadour is a village. A medieval village. Like so many here in the Dordogne valley. It is situated on different levels connected by stairs and two elevators that transport people up and down.
In principle, there is only one road in Rocamadour, winding gently up from the bottom of the valley. It's easy to meet people here because it's full. We came here in September because in the high season it is... too crowded, and not only for us.
In principle, there is only one road in Rocamadour, winding gently up from the bottom of the valley. It's easy to meet people here because it's full. We came here in September because in the high season it is... too crowded, and not only for us.
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00:00A day with my husband, we discovered that his grandfather had grown lavender.
00:23My name is Roland Manouvrier, I am a master ice maker in Dordogne and I have been making
00:39ice cream for about thirty years.
00:40I come from a family of restaurateurs.
00:42I was born in Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, one of the most beautiful villages in France.
00:49I make 130 to 140 different perfumes, which are made and made in the greatest tradition
01:01of French artisanal ice cream, with quality ingredients, ingredients that we will look
01:09for directly from the producers, whether it is Perigord strawberry, Perigord walnut,
01:15it is still the Melon du Quercy with which we work.
01:32We searched a little more, we searched in texts, we asked the elders what this
01:40lavender story was, and we discovered that there was a lot of it, from the 1920s to
01:46the 1980s, with a peak in the 1950s, where farmers were really numerous to have planted
01:56lavender.
01:57They managed to live from it, not completely, it was often an activity that was next to
02:04their main activity, but they were really numerous to cultivate it.
02:10We are a company in Rocamadour, located in Saint-Sosy.
02:17We are a company in Rocamadour, located in Saint-Sosy.
02:25We are a company in Rocamadour, located in Saint-Sosy.
02:35We are a company in Rocamadour, located in Saint-Sosy.
02:40We do all the production in Saint-Sosy.
02:43We were originally traders, me with my husband, and with Covid, we were getting married,
02:53it was canceled little by little, and we decided to go on cooking dishes.
03:01Cooking dishes that are long to prepare, but we just have to reheat.
03:32We are the producers of the raisin petit.
03:34To explain to you what the raisin petit is, it is a small natural drink that I keep
03:40alive, 100% natural, 100% mosaic, it is neither too raw nor too sweet, it is a natural
03:46wine that only generates 2.27 degrees of alcohol.
03:48To give you an idea, a whole bottle is equivalent to a simple beer, it is even less
03:52alcoholic than cider, but if there is a little alcohol, it is because we are still working
03:56the raisin, so we maintain a natural effervescence.
04:01Hello, my name is Marie-Gabrielle, and I work in Rocamadour, where I sell cheese from
04:19Rocamadour, with the farmer Alain Lacoste from Rocamadour.
04:25And all the products from here, I sell the wine from here, the nuts, the walnut oil,
04:34all the products of small producers, which are grouped in this small shop.
04:42Thank you!
04:55Thank you!
05:25Thank you!