The name 'Bergerac' immediately brings to mind the first name: Cyrano. A local? No, far from it. He is a character from the play by Edmond Rostand. So not a local. We found it on our walk through the old town, where we were more interested in the living Bergeracoises than in the men, whose statues are in some places unmistakable, but far less entertaining than the people we met.
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00:00Travel plans were put on hold during the pandemic.
00:11Now travel restarts again and old connections are restored.
00:16We want to make new friends and refresh old contacts, visit the most exciting places and
00:21come back with the best memories.
00:24And these memories we want to share with you.
00:36In Perigord, gastronomy is a religion and there are two very important things to know,
00:41the presence of geese and ducks.
00:43The other treasure that we have here is the Perigord truffle.
01:02You get your farmhouse goat cheese from the region.
01:05You can find only some small sellers in the Perigord which are allowed to make cheese
01:09from goats.
01:11The weekly market is an institution in France.
01:14Here we meet real originals.
01:38And also can stock up with fresh regional goods.
01:55I am Michael Cramey, I have been a wine merchant in Bergerac for 20 years and I sell of course
02:00wines from the Bergerac region, all the appellations of Mont Basilic, P Charmont, Mont Ravel.
02:07And then I have a specialty of old bottles, I sell wine from customers' birth years.
02:29I'm Caroline, I'm the manager of the bookstore La Colline au Livre in Bergerac.
02:34It is a bookstore that I took over with my husband in 2018.
02:39It is an independent bookstore, which allows us to select each of the books here.
02:44We try to be as much as possible in adequacy with the Bergerac Rois, but also the life
02:48of the city, that is to say its seasonality, the customers who come on vacation or to discover
02:54a little of this region.
03:12It is a general bookshop, which means that the variety of books is composed of a cookbook
03:16for example, as well as a book of stories for young people, literature, detective stories,
03:22urban sciences or comics.
03:50I created this brand and this company to be able to make my city which I love very
03:54much, more dynamic and to offer things that have not been done at all in Bergerac yet.
04:01First of all it is a series of textiles with the brand Peninsule, based on the description
04:06of the nose from Cyrano de Bergerac, the stage play by Edmond Rastan.
04:11Quite simply that it is our as Bergeracois.
04:14To give us a spirit to belong together and then to share it everywhere with the people
04:18who love our city, who love Cyrano de Bergerac and Edmond Rastan.
04:38And then, finally, always in an ecologically responsible approach.
04:42That means the textile brand and Bergeracois since it was founded by a man from Bergerac,
04:47master Laurent Marti and that all the graphics and embroidery I designed are produced 10
04:52minutes away from Bergerac.
04:54You collect lifestyle from Perigord, because here we have an exceptional quality of life,
04:59a climate which fits perfectly, and a convivial lifestyle.
05:03I also offer goods coming from local craftsmanship.
05:07Within a maximum radius of 30 kilometers from Bergerac, I would say that 80% of the products
05:12come from the region.
05:22Especially the wine, table and wine glasses that I created, country wines, because we
05:28are a wine growing region.
05:30We keep our bottles cool with this.
05:42Bergerac has a brand new cultural center, Dordana, that will finally open in June 2023,
05:48and I don't want to deprive you of it.