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A Story Told by Sandra and Veronique to the 7th generation Chabal’s: (Alice, Paul, Félix, Youri, Colette, Eamon, Mateo, Dominic, Sami, Joey, Mahé, Emile) (Photos of the land and views maybe a collage?) Régis took a bold path. As a young man in 1853, he left the farm to start a new life in Avignon, where he found great success establishing a chemiserie (shirt store). He eventually passed the business to his son, and later to his grandson—my grandfather, Marcel Chabal. That makes, Régis was my great-great-grandfather. My mother was born just above that very shop; when I visited as a child, I was enchanted by the store's high walls and rows of neatly folded shirts. Régis’s life spanned (1828-1914) from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the birth of the Modern Age, encompassing the epic changes you are about to see. 1828 INTRODUCTION Our family’s ancestral farm, Ferme des Bachassons, sits at the base of Mount Gerbier de Jonc—famed as the source of Fra...