{"id":1675,"date":"2020-03-05T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grotte-de-trabuc.com\/histoire\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:23:52","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grotte-de-trabuc.com\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1602-1710<\/h2><\/div>
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Camisard occupation in the “Old Trabuc”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1790<\/h2><\/div>
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Hiding place of the Trabuca\u00efres (highwaymen)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1945<\/h2><\/div>
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The year of all explorations!
\nDiscovery of the new Trabuc by Georges Vaucher thanks to the passage of the “Trou du Vent”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1950<\/h2><\/div>
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Drilling of the access tunnel from the top for a first fitting out of the cave,
\ncarried out by the Friendly Circle of Alesian Minors<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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1973<\/h2><\/div>
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Tourism development of the natural site<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Cave of Trabuc has been known since ancient times. E. Dumas reported discovering prehistoric bones and tools proving that the cave had been occupied since Prehistoric times and until Roman times. The occupation of the cave can be easily explained: the natural entrance is low and narrow, inside we can find the presence of a large room, easily defendable, and with several hiding places. These conditions were therefore favorable for habitat.<\/p>\n

At a later stage, in the Protestant Reformation period the cave was used as a refuge and as a gunpowder factory by the “Camisards”. The king\u2019s troops blocked the entrance of every cave surrounding the area in order to eliminate these invulnerable hideouts.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Drilling of the tunnel in 1950<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The trabucco, weapon of Trabuca\u00efres<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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A century later, it is believed that the cave was used as a hiding spot for “Trabuca\u00efres” (highwaymen). The name of the cave comes from this troubled time. The bandits carried the trabucco, a pistol with a wide mouth, a very dangerous and effective weapon when stuffed with powder and scrap. In local dialect they were nicknamed the “Trabuca\u00efres” being the carriers and users of the trabucco.<\/p>\n

These threatening explorers were succeeded by the first serious explorers, who entered the caves to decipher the secrets of the underground environment<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In 1823, Nicod and Galli\u00e8re organized a 3 day expedition into the caves and as a result they became justifiably the pioneers of underground camps. Galli\u00e8re got lost and had to spend fifty-two hours in the dark before being found biting his shoelaces and drinking his own urine.<\/p>\n

From that moment, the whole of what is known as the ancient Trabuc caves, were explored.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Passage of “Trou du Vent”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Discover of 100 000 soldats par G.Vaucher<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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In 1889, the entomologists V. Maget and G. Mignaud discovered a kind of niphargus named Bathyscia Mialetensis in honour of Mialet\u2019s caves.<\/p>\n

It was in 1899 that the Trabuc network was visited by the first speleologists. Mazauric, Martel\u2019s collaborator, depicted the network in the French Speleological Society newsletter. In 1920 a map of the network of galleries and rooms was published in the “Spelunca” journal, the cave was already famous in the speleological circle, however the publication communicated the significance of the network for the wider public.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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At that time , tourist visits of the caves were performed by entering through the natural entrance and the low passage of the \u201cestrangladou\u201d that led to the \u201c Salle des Vasques\u201d. back then the visits were made with torches, and the guides lit bengal lights and sold them in exchange of a few coins. Even if the chambers ware so vast, the smoke would spread very rapidly and the group of visitors had to rapidly find their way out of the cave.<\/p>\n

For the French national day (14 July), the visits to the cave were part of the festivities.<\/p>\n

In 1945 began the era of new discoveries, thanks to the perseverance of M.G Vaucher and his sons Marc and Olivier. Through their work, more than 7 kilometers of network were explored.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Inauguration of the cave in 1952<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Still today there are many underground networks to be discovered. Exploration in the roofs, cave diggings, passing in the sumps of lower systems!<\/p>\n

The mysteries of Trabuc have not yet been discovered. Like in all major underground networks, surprises await for the more persistent explorers.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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