Category: France
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20.000 years of human activity
20.000 years of human activity Looking, studying, that’s what man has been doing since time immemorial. These two people in the Louvre-Lens look intently at a prehistoric flint object in the shape of a laurel leaf found in Rigny-sur-Arroux (Sâone-et-Loire), France. Around 20.000 years ago a fellow man has done his or her best in…
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Meeting at the ‘galerie du temps’ …
Meeting at the ‘galerie du temps’ … … between the faint reflection of a modern woman and a terracotta woman of more than two and a half thousand years ago, as I saw it in the beautiful ‘galerie du temps’ of the Louvre-Lens museum in the north of France. Photo of the week: Statue-vase in…
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Medieval France
Medieval France In the hamlet of Massy you can see, opposite a small Romanesque church, this house dating from about the same time. Only the partly renovated roof, the doors, a little window and the piece of asphalt road reveal that we are no longer in the Middle Ages. Photo of the week: Massy, La…
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Romanesque austerity
Romanesque austerity Less is more, aesthetically. That is why Romanesque art and architecture is so compelling. More basic and austere than the Saint-Pierre in Brancion you won’t find easily. Photo of the week: Eglise romane Saint-Pierre, 12th cent., Brancion, France 2023
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Dry stone walls
Dry stone walls You’ll find them everywhere. For thousands of years man has built walls and fences following the technique of searching, measuring, cutting, fitting and piling of stones. This is a wall in Brancion, a medieval village in Burgundy. In the back the castle of Brancion. Photo of the week: Brancion, France 2023
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Cross on stilts
Cross on stilts I.I climbed up to an elevated cemeteryand saw a cross on stilts.Raised for a still better view?For the pursuit of heaven?Or just for fun? II.I descended the steps into a pitch-dark tomb. Groped for my camera, managed to put on the flash and took a picture. The photo shows what I couldn’t…
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Le Lavoir
Le Lavoir When in last week’s post I declared my love for the old villages in the south of France, with “Vers-Pont-du-Gard” as example, I didn’t mention the old communal washing-places. Before the invention of the washing-machine you could find them all over, not just in France. In many towns and villages they have been…
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Vers-Pont-du-Gard
Vers-Pont-du-Gard The ‘Pont du Gard’ is probably the best preserved aqueduct of the Roman Empire and for sure a major tourist attraction in the south of France. In the photo you see it on a photo on a wall in the nearby village ‘Vers-Pont-du-Gard’. An appropriate name for a village at a stone’s throw from…
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Les accordéonistes
Les accordéonistes Are they trying to scare us away,this motley lot of advancing orange,casting their long-drawn-out shadows forward,while drawing protracted cries from their accordions? No! It’s the ‘Festival l’Accordéon Plein Pot’! Photo of the week: ‘Festival l’Accordéon Plein Pot’, Saint Quentin la Poterie, France 2017
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This calls for a toast
This calls for a toast The way the red and white checks of the tablecloth penetrate the bottles of rosé.Nature morte on a table in the sun.Wonder of light and liveliness. Photo of the week : Rosé bottles, Saint Quentin la Poterie, France 2017
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