It is a rough land, with wild and majestic beauty. Men live there isolated, like Robinson Crusaders lost in the middle of an ocean of granite covered with vast green pastures and game-rich forests. At the time of confinement, Lozère, the least populated department in France with its 76,000 inhabitants, looks like a desert of immaculate nature. We covered 80 kilometers of departmental roads there without meeting a single car. In the heart of Gévaudan, the Covid-19 is a new invisible monster. It terrorizes a population, which keeps in memory the vivid memory of the beast, half-dog, half-wolf and hyena, whose attacks had marked the 18th century.
At Fenestres, a farm in the commune of Saint-Paul-le-Froid, on the Margeride plateau, we are greeted by a herd of cows. The aubracs with tawny coats, the first inhabitants of this country, raise their heads and watch us pass with their big eyes bordered with black. In the court
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