Conferences

The Annual General Meeting of the European Network In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson was held on 7 November 2024 in Langogne, in the Cévennes region of France. The discussions at the Annual General Meeting, chaired by Martin White, Chairman, highlighted the joint work of territories that promote the Robert Louis Stevenson’s values of […]

Here’s a new book on Stevenson , presenting several itineraries in Europe. Editions Gallimard has just released a new addition to its ‘Voyages Gallimard’ collection. This book is based on the travel accounts of journalist-authors who have travelled several of Stevenson’s routes in France and Scotland, each in their own way: with a donkey in […]

The Cévennes association is already 30 years old, which was set up in 1994 to bring together those involved in tourism in the vicinity of the route followed by R.L. Stevenson in 1878 (whose account was published under the title “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes”).

Over the last thirty years, in addition to a signposted route (GR 70), many cultural initiatives have been launched, bringing together travellers and locals alike. The experience of working in a network has led the association to turn to other associations around Stevenson .

The Stevenson’s Days this year will be held on 8th and 9th june 2024 at Longueil Annel and Chiry Ourscamps. Plenty of activities are planned including: a ‘Pirate concert’ starring the Orchestre d’Harmonie de Thourotte, Discover Stevenson’s works and the local heritage with cruises on the canal and Oise, workshops to discover your creativity with […]

Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of The Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, among many other perhaps less well-known but equally fascinating texts, was also an indefatigable great traveller. From the north of Scotland to the Pacific islands where he ends his life, in the territories he has crossed, […]

An article from the daily “La voix du Nord” announcing a recent event around the Hachette lock on the Sambre canal Sunday, April 28, 2019: Maroilles Three communes to animate the lock house of Hachette 

Contributor: Christian Brochier The path of the Cévennes and the history of its rediscovery, from its first integral waymarking (1977) to the (very) festive events that marked the centenary of the “travels in the Cévennes with a donkey “. We owe it all to the Club Cévenol, an avant-garde Association created in 1994 to publicize […]