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Who was Jean Francois Champollion? We know the scholar, the deciphering of hieroglyphics. But who was the man in private? You will meet the Champollion who experienced moments of great enthusiasm, but also doubts and disappointments deep, you find the man who has won the admiration of the greatest personalities of his time, [...]
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- Tags: exhibition , Figeac , Lot museum
On Tuesday, August 5 at the Open Air Museum, House Fourdonne st Cirq Lapopie, will broadcast a documentary Cine Architecture "My Architect" at 21:30. It is a film documentary by Nathaniel Kahn about the life and work of his father the architect Louis Kahn. (Allow the sweaters in case, rates: 5 € - [...]
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- Tags: animation , film , Lot , St cirq lapopie
(Representation of Cabrerets 1830, notice the bridge with three arches which no longer exists) Another very informative article on Cabrerets and his past, thank you to Father Amedee Lemozi for these irreplaceable evidence of the past. 'The church Cabrerets it was once the castle chapel. Remains of Roman choir vestry under the current (on the [...]
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"All that I disdained to date, says Gustave Guiches in the banquet of life, and now I watch with anguish as those you cherished and for which at the time of leaving, we discovered an incurable disease. My village nestled in the hollow of the valley, the hills [...]
"There are many old villages in Quercy. Many died for their sins gently loaded with pebbles and stones white as bone. They gave birth to the troubadours, poets, scholars, warriors, marshals, a pope, a king. They are primarily politicians and civil servants, writers too. [...]
"In the collection of tributes to Count Alphonse of Poitiers, he discussed in 1259 the castle Cabrerets called thereafter, the English castle or more popularly" Castle of the Devil. " From this base, the British, who were long the master, indulged in all kinds of looting. Taken and retaken several [...]
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- Tags: Cabrerets , castle , cave pech merle , Tourism
The Quercy through ancient writings (Gustave Guiches)
In: Writings of the past | Tourism
March 8, 2007"It will be hard to tear myself away from here! The native soil sticks to my feet ... "
The village of Cabrerets through ancient (excerpts) written by A. Lemozi course, but also Martel ... "To portray Cabrerets said an artist Nancy should be a canvas on which all shades of the rainbow would be aligned. There are blue, pink, green on high cliffs, adorned [...]
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- Tags: Cabrerets , cave pech merle , Tourism , visit
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