"Grisettes" and the Cami Roumieu

[Bogong]

G'day,

We're having a new kitchen and in the general clean-up found a beautiful tin with the remains of a gift of Grisettes from Montpelier given to my my wife around 30 years ago.

At the time we overlooked the significance of the link with the Camino, and never imagined that I would one day walk it.

The information sheet, in 9 languages, reads:

" In the Middle Ages, around 1100, "Notre Dame des Tables" was the commercial centre of Montpelier. Already in those days the clever merchants, when doing business, used "Grisettes" (little honey marbles with liquorice) to round up the change for the numerous pilgrims for Santiago de Compostela on their pilgrims' path called "Cami Roumieu".

What is the route of the Cami Roumieu?

And the little Grisettes are still nice, even after all these years!

De Colores

Bogong

 

[SYates]

Me thinks it is a variante of the Arles route, the Voie de Piémonts. Cami is occitain for way, Roumieu reminds me of Rome/Romero. I would guess that this was a route taken by pilgrims to Rome as well as to Santiago. Found an interesting link here: http://castel.al.free.fr/CASTELCHAMBRES/SENTIER ST JACQUES DE COMPOSTELLE.htm and a lovely picture here: https://twitter.com/abdielkandoussi/status/510023916874924032
Hope that helps, SY

 

[mspath]

Furthermore if you Google the term Cami Roumieu you will find many French references to the route of this old path.

 

[Bogong]

Furthermore if you Google the term Cami Roumieu you will find many French references to the route of this old path.

Thanks for the tips.

On a hunch, I googled in "Camin Roumieu" and picked up a reference in English(" The Ground beneath my Feet") . It claims the words mean "Route of Pilgrimage" and implies the route is part of the French way. There are brass markers embedded in pavements in central Montpellier with the scallop shell surrounded by ""Camin Roumieu Montpellier". SY's link shows a wonderful route from Montpellier to StJ P de P via Lourdes.

Now that would be a pilgrimage! Who's done it?

De Colores

Bogong (getting itchy feet, but would probably be really risking that divorce which has been threatened nearly every day for the last 46 years)