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Every first Sunday in September some 15,000 protestants and descendants of those that fled the country in the 15th century gather in Le Mas Soubeyran, near Mailet, at the Musée de Désert (so called in memory of the Hebrews who crossed the desert). Here, in the birthplace of the Camisard chief Roland, which has now been turned into a musem, they commemorate the hundreds of Cevenese who died for their belief. The museum is worth a visit and is open from 1st March to 30th November from 9.30 to 12.00 and 14.30 to 18.00, and all day from 1st July to 1st September.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

No book can be written about the Cevennes region without a mention of the renowned writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote his classic Travels with a Donkey in 1878. A young, penniless Scottish student, he walked from Puy-en-Velay southwards, over Mont Lozère to Florac, and continued down the Mimente valley to St-Jean-du-Gard. His adventures and tribulations with his donkey, Modestine, have enchanted readers the world over and put this remote mountainous region, in many ways so like Stevenson’s native Scotland, firmly on the map.