Roger Verdegen

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Roger Verdegen, born May 3, 1935, in Nice, and died December 5, 2024, in Marseille, is considered "the historical guide of the Verdon Canyon," a specialist in the Verdon River. He wrote several reference guides on the subject. Roger Verdegen, born in 1935, was estranged from his family. Taking his mother's name, he was placed in a wet nurse in the Nice hinterland. He learned the trade of goatherd in Villard-la-Croix. He spent the war years in Auvergne, where he became a messenger for the Resistance. At the end of the war, he was in an orphanage in the Toulouse region. Ill and sent to...