Âne bâté (pack mules): a donkey which is saddled to carry weight.

Biodiversité (biodiversity): the diversity of the plant and animal species in a given setting.

Botanist: plant specialist

Camélidé: large hoofed mammals, such as a camel.

Capitulaire: An assembly of monks, meeting together to discuss certain matters.

Crétacé (cretaceous): a geological period in the earth’s evolution, at the end of the secondary, the time when chalky soils were formed.

Entomologist: a specialist in insects

Gastropodes: mollusk inside a shell.

Hydrogeological: rock whose shape is influenced by water

Lavandicole: specialized in growing lavender

Melonnière: a farm which grows only melons.

Montgolfière (Hot air balloon): is named after the Montgolfier brothers who invented the hot-air balloon. A large, steerable balloon which expands when filled with hot air.

Mythology: the myths and legends which are part of a given area, people, civilization or religion.

Ochre: a natural mineral substance which ranges from yellow to red, made up of clay and iron oxides and manganese.

Oligocene: the era which goes back to the second period of the Tertiary Era, approximately 12 million years ago.

Paleontology: the science of living things which existed during previous geological eras, based on the study of fossils.

Stalactite: A calcareous concretion which forms at the tops of caves through the evaporation of drops of water filtering through the ceiling of the cave. And stalagmites ? The opposite of stalactites, stalagmites rise in column form from the ground upwards..

Troglodytique: French word referring to dwellings carved out of the rock or built into caves.

Milky Way: the whitish band across the night sky made up of hundreds of thousands of stars, including the sun.