Griffiths, Thomas2022-03-300155-2864http://hdl.handle.net/1885/262810Thirty years ago, I walked out of the railway station at Le Puy in the Auvergne region of the Massif Central of France, put most of my belongings in a locker at the station along with a note in schoolboy French explaining that I hoped to be back, and then walked over the horizon at sunset. I was embarked on my discovery of the Velay and the Gévaudan.My thanks to Simone de Beauvoir for The Prime of Life (Penguin, 1965), Jay M. Smith for Monsters of the Gévaudan (Harvard University Press, 2011), Jean-Marc Moriceau for Histoire du Méchant Loup (Fayard, 2007), Simon Schama for Citizens (Penguin, 1989), Richard Holmes for his own pilgrimage in Footsteps (Hodder & Stoughton, 1985), Napoléon Peyrat for Histoire des Pasteurs du Désert (two volumes, Librairie de Marc Aurel Frères, 1842), to the wonderful Guillot family, and to RLS himself.application/pdfen-AU© 2013 The Authors20132020-12-20