On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of this "journey" I''ve wanted to reread this charming little book of the immortal author of "Treasure Island" and "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Following an unhappy love, Stevenson had retired to the small village of Monastier on Gazeille from where he wanted to go south, to adventure and walk. As was to be found in the obligation to bivouac and perhaps not finding supplies on certain parts of his way, he was a lot of material to take qu''il would have been unable to carry on his back . He did make a kind of ancestor sleeping bags composed of returned sheepskins and sewn together. At that time, the campsite was still unknown and had to lug stove, baskets, lanterns and pans, a whole rickety equipment qu''il docked on the back of a small donkey named Modestine. N''ayant no concept of handling this fantastic animal, Stevenson had the greatest difficulty in s''en obeyed. His troubles with his donkey are a great comic. ' After crossing the Velay and Gevaudan, climbed Mount Lozère and crossed the camisard countries manage to Saint Jean du Gard from where he will take the mail coach Ales' This story is exciting for several reasons. It ''s testimony on the life of the deep countryside of that time. Poorer but more populated than nowadays. More believers but to the 'narrower horizon. More solidarity, but sometimes very suspicious vis-à-vis abroad. Good Scottish Protestant, he will feel better camisard country among Catholics in the Puy region. On the way, he briefly recounts the history of the revolt caused by the monstrous error by Louis XIV in revoking the Edict of Nantes and by sending the Dragons "pacify" (that is to say génocider) a "rebel" region. The Republic will practice the same in Vendée few years later, but at the expense of the royalist Catholics this time. Like what it not n''est of today the intolerance the dumbest and most sordid rampant in our latitudes. Stevenson notes honestly than by the time it happens, if their suffering is not forgotten, however, Catholics and Protestants live in perfect harmony. All hikers should read this book because it was the first on the topic and that can be considered Stevenson as the founding father of modern itinerant hiking. We measure the extent of his descendants and the progress made since this "first".