“Between Valbonne and Biot, a 9 km long path follows the river. Part of the Brague Valley is covered by a Park called the "Parc Départemental de la Brague".
“The Brague is 21 km long.”
If, like our friend Vagabonde, you would prefer to read it in French, there’s always this article from the French Wikipedia.
The best-known person named Brague alive today may be Rémi Brague (1947- ), a French historian of philosophy, specializing in the Arabic, Jewish, and Christian thought of the Middle Ages. He is professor emeritus of Arabic and religious philosophy at the Sorbonne, and Romano Guardini chair of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Ancestry.com says it has 1,832,877 historical documents and family trees with Brague, and 793,114 of them are births, marriages, and deaths.
For a name that I have always thought was not a common one, that’s more Bragues than you can shake a stick at.
I don’t think the Bragues in France rhyme their name with plague. I think if they rhyme it at all they rhyme it with log or cog or jog or hog or possibly even polliwog. Perhaps the Bragues in the southern U.S. rhyme their name with plague to remind the locals not to confuse us with U.S. Confederate General Braxton Bragg (1817-1876), after whom Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was named.
I have been called Bragg and Brah-goo and Brah-gay and even Brah-gah.
If you’re ever in our neck of the woods and feel like dropping in, the troops at Fort Bragg will show you how to do it properly.
Some of them may even help you locate our house:
Just be sure to pronounce our name correctly.
If this post is not to your liking, go find a river and shake a stick at it.
