Cevennes Club

Created the September 18th 1894 with Florac by Paul Arnal and of young enthusiastic followers of the speleologist Edouard-Alfred Martel (creative of the modern Speleology, at the same time science and sport), the Cevennes Club is an association aiming at preserving the inheritance of the the Cevennes and the Causses while supporting the creation of activities and tourism in this area.

History

Association was at the beginning a company of speleology, the first created in France ( A baptism of the abyss is essential to any member of the club , its founder said).

It was also (and is always) a company of tourism and for this reason, the third in France after those of Gérardmer and Grenoble. Paul Arnal, still studying in Theology (he was Pasteur Protesting), joins together all the good wills there, far from the quarrels partisanes or nuns, on the neutral ground of tourism, for the community property of the the Cevennes and the Causses, two “countries”, neighbors but distant, for whom the Cevennes Club intended to be a powerful bond.

In the united action of not involved men who share the concern of the future material and moral of their small fatherland, it advanced the reconciliation, still difficult but that it considered already possible at the dawn of the 20th century, between those of its contemporaries who accepted honestly and lucidly to leave behind hatreds of bell-tower, resentments family, passions still badly extinct .

The Cevennes Club is chaired since January 2002 by Jean-Hugues Carbonnier, lawyer of association in the business of the stopping of Borie on the Gardon of Mialet (Gard), to which the Club by majority decision was opposed, after an open and tolerant debate.

Objectives

The three objectives of the Club are:

to safeguard the natural heritage and cultural the Cevennes and Causses,
to encourage all the initiatives directed towards the maintenance and the creation of activities allowing Cevennes and Caussenards to continue to live in their country,
to support the forms of tourism which can respect the traditions of reception and hospitality of the the Cevennes and Causses.

The life of this club is articulated around four axes:

commission of action to the services of the Cevennes,
the quarterly review Causses and the Cevennes and publications,
administrative life,
the congress.

The head office was initially Florac (Lozere); then Paris (in the social museum, 5 rue Las Cazes, Paris 7th); finally Ales (Gard), since September 10th, 1972 with the Chamber of commerce and of industry, street Michelet, 30100 Ales.

Sections of the Club

The sections and their presidents are the following:

The greatest number of sections is logically in the Gard (10) and in Lozere (9), the two Cevennes departments.

External bonds

The official site of the Cevennes Club

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