25es Rencontres Histoire et patrimoine des Maures 2026  to La Garde-Freinet (Var, France)

A day of mini-conferences on history, the environment and archaeology

9:30 am Welcome of participants
10am-11am
The "vine gardens" of Saint-Tropez
Alain Guichet, director-oenologist at Torpez wines; Myriam Laidet, doctoral student at the
Myriam Laidet, doctoral student at the landscape research laboratory of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage
Gustave Bret, a musician to rediscover in Provence
Alain Droguet, President of the Société d'Histoire de Fréjus et de sa Région; Isabelle Pintus
de Nicola, head of the Estérel Côte d'Azur Agglomération Community Archives,
member of the SHFR
Book presentation: "Saint-Tropez et la Seconde Guerre mondiale" (Saint-Tropez and the Second World War)
Laurent Pavlidis, Doctor of History, curator of the Musée d'Histoire Maritime de la
Citadelle; Hélène Riboty, Head of the Saint-Tropez Municipal Archives
11am-12pm
Excavations of the ancient Neolithic settlement of Cavalaire
Raphaëlle Guilbert-Berger, archaeologist, INRAP operations manager
Is there a Provençal language specific to the Maures massif?
Jean-Luc Domenge, ethnolinguist, Félibrige majoral
Book presentation: "Justice de proximité et justiciables près de Saint-Tropez. The
the metamorphosis of Themis, 1773-1803".
Fabien Salducci, PhD in history, certified history-geography teacher at the collège
Sainte-Maxime, lecturer at the Université Côte-d'Azur de Nice
12h
Presentation of the latest Freinet review

Lunch break

2:30 pm - 5 pm
Presentation of the Provence cane: Arondo Donax
Brigitte Hedel-Samson, honorary curator; Yves Rouguisto, Provencal musician,
sound artist
Recent research findings on the Maures chestnut tree
Brigitte Talon and Frédéric Guibal, members of the Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie
Ecologie marine et continentale (Aix-Marseille University/CNRS)
Anthropological explorations of agricultural practices and local festivals in the center
des Maures (Collobrières)
Christian Culas, anthropology researcher at CNRS, University of Montpellier, UMR
Acteurs Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement (ART-Dev); Nathalie Moulin,
ethnology researcher, Association Tribulus Terrestris Molezon (Lozère, Cévennes)