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UzEssentiel in English

UzEssentiel in English is where to find a selection of the blog posts in la langue de Shakespeare.

Pick out what you really want to read between Tourism, Gastronomy, Interviews….

And feel free to contact Nancy through the contact form for any question, suggestion, etc.

Le 01/02/2026

A look back at the 2025 Raid des Notaires

FR - Created in 2023 by French notary Anne-Sophie Arnal, in collaboration with Viviane and Patrick Zaniroli, leading rally specialists, the Raid des Notaires has just completed its third edition.

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 01/12/2025

The chocolate made by Eric Comte, on the road to flavour

FR - (updated 11/2025) Comte chocolate is above all a gourmet adventure with roots dating back to 2020. It is also a story of career change and life journeys, which we at UzEssentiel love to hear about. After more than 25 years in the wine industry, Éric Comte decided to devote himself to the craft of chocolate making, from bean to bar. His father, a fine cocoa farmer in Ecuador, and a few decisive encounters were behind his career change.

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 01/12/2025

Madame Cookie's spongy chestnut cream biscuits

Here's a heart-warming recipe to make the most of autumn and winter.

Shared by Madame Cookie, to whom we are dedicating an article, these chestnut biscuits are sure to please the whole family!

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 01/12/2025

Marbled duck foie gras and orange madeleine from Clive Joyce, chef of restaurant L'Oxalis in Collias

FR - Clive Joyce, chef at the restaurant L'Oxalis in Collias, shares with us a delicious recipe featuring foie gras, a great guest at festive tables.

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 01/12/2025

Piémont Causses & Cévennes, wine cooperative

FR - With the slogan ‘What binds us together makes us grow’, the Piémont Causses & Cévennes wine cooperative, created in January 2024 and represented by the Saint Maurice le Piémont des Cévennes winery and the Castelbarry Montpeyroux artisan cooperative, aims to be 'a cooperative, ethical and sustainable pact rooted in two wine-growing regions', the Gard and Hérault regions and a ‘sharing of the same values’.

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 01/12/2025

Chestnut flour and honey gingerbread

FR - A very delicious and easy to make recipe to enjoy with your afternoon tea.

Dans UzEssentiel in English

Le 30/11/2025

Les Vignerons Engagés, the First French Sustainable Winegrowing

FR - (Updated 11/2025) The Les Vignerons Engagés association (French Sustainable Winegrowing) with CRS certification (Corporate social responsibility (CSR), was created in 2010, following the 2007 initiative of few wine growers cooperatives looking to the future and wishing to change wine production.

Dans UzEssentiel in English

Le 04/11/2025

MADE IN XAVIER concept store, in Uzès

French version - (updated 11 2025) Settled 3 avenue Jean Jaurès, MADE IN XAVIER is specialized in local art. True temple of creation, between lights, jewels, ceramics, furniture and so on, it offers a wide selection of products coming from around Uzès (no further than 250 km).

Dans Living in Uzès and Occitania

Le 31/10/2025

The Hameau des Rosiers, a participatory eco-community in the Cèze Valley

FR - A “participatory, intergenerational, and inclusive eco-community in a rural setting” promoting the values of mutual aid, transmission and sharing, the Hameau des Rosiers project is led by the DYNAMIS association and supported by the Monastère de Solan endowment fund.

To find out more, our editorial team went to meet Sister Claire from the Monastery of Solan and Madeleine Mutel from the DYNAMIS association.

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 05/10/2025

Mushroom picking with the Mycological Society of Alès

UK - Autumn is quite a good time to pick mushrooms.

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 05/10/2025

Mushroom picking with the Mycological Society of Alès, part 2

(FR) - Here is the second part of our paper on mushroom picking.

The Mycological Society of Alès still helps us through our search to know better what to pick and the regulation on mushroom harvesting.

Dans Living in Uzès and Occitania

Le 29/09/2025

The singing bowls of Delphine Acedo

FR - A sound practitioner since 2017, Delphine Acedo enjoys sharing the practice of singing bowls in workshops around the Gard region. Her credo is to open the doors to this particular musical universe to as many people as possible.

Dans Living in Uzès and Occitania

Le 29/09/2025

Stress and psycho-emotional management in naturopathy

FR - Maud Simonelli, health partner of the blog, returns at the start of fall to give us some information about one of the pillars of a healthy lifestyle in naturopathy: stress and psycho-emotional management.

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 29/09/2025

The art of Rosé by Jeany Cronk & Domaine Mirabeau

With a well regraded brand and a lovely Domaine in the heart of Provence named Maison Mirabeau, Jeany Cronk stepped into the world of Rosé together with her family since 2009.

Dans Interviews and portraits

Le 31/08/2025

Sandrot, the vividness of contemporary art

FR - Sandrot (a contraction of the artist's name, Sandra Guilbot) expresses her passion for nature through an inspired creative journey since her youth spent in Marseille.

Her paintings, incredibly realistic, vibrant and full of life, are available on ‘paper, wood, canvas or metal’*. The media are as eclectic as the subjects chosen: birds, big cats, monkeys, reptiles, fish... are all depicted in all their wild splendour & can be admired among other places at the Sigean Reserve, which has entrusted her with one of its projects.

Dans Tourism

Le 31/08/2025

Visit to Saint-André-de-Valborgne

FR - Located almost to hours drive from Uzès, a stone's throw from Lozère, Saint-André-de-Valborgne is well worth a visit.

Nestled in the heart of the Cévennes, in the Haute Gardonnenque region, the commune runs alongside the Gardon de Saint-Jean river (which rises at the top of the Vallée Borgne below the Peyre Agude, at 1,102 m), and is also cooled by another watercourse, the Valat de Roumégous.

Dans Interviews and portraits

Le 14/08/2025

Filia, Sarah Lanzi's life in blue

FR - Filia, an artistic reinvention and new professional and creative impetus for Sarah Lanzi, founder of the brand in 2021.

Filia, a name that subtly echoes the word filiation... because family heritage is never far from this artistic journey. An unbreakable bond that helped Sarah rethink herself, be reborn, heal her body, and return to simple things after an international career as a performer.

Dans Local products & recipes

Le 12/08/2025

Wine tasting at the Domaine de Gressac, in Verfeuil

After our paper dedicated to the Domaine de Gressac's Spanish horse breeding farm, UzEssentiel editor is now delighted to welcome back its owner, Laurence Michelet, back to the pages of the blog in the Local product section this time, for the natural organic wines of the place.

Dans Lifestyle

Le 30/06/2025

Jaune Ciel, a farming laboratory

FR - A bucolic discovery in Sagriès with Agathe and Jaune Ciel. Founded in 2019, Jaune Ciel is the story of Agathe's long-held vocation: to reconcile respect for biodiversity with farming. By becoming a laboratory assistant creating natural cosmetics, she's made a particularly successful attempt!

Dans Living in Uzès and Occitania

Le 11/06/2025

Focus on the branding workshop organised by L'effet Papillon

FR - A Branding workshop was held at Tiers-lieu le 21, organised by L'effet Papillon and led by Béatrice Baulard from Brindazar.

10 people turned up to take part in this first, short approach to branding, which focuses on a company's image, its communication and how to come up with simple ideas to communicate.