27 juin 2008
procedure…
Hello,
You are more than 25.000 to have visited me since the creation of the french blog, and I would like to thank you.
(and more than 100.000 pages seen)
Sincerely yours…
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NEW…
A forum is born :
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And if you want to take part and post photographs, go on:
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And for crowned places, here one:
SMALL EXPLANATORY NOTE
To reach a particular category, it is enough for you to click on the left, in “categories”. If you seek for example the black virgin of Valfleury, you will find it in the album of the black virgins, (only in photograph), in the category “virgins black”, and in the category “Valfleury”.
You can also follow the wire of the voyage while clicking at the end of each page on “following page”.
For the last studies, you will find them also on the left, in lower part of “categories”, in “last messages”.
Here my banner. Thank you in Rem which supported me on msn while it worked above…
As regards the motivation of such studies, I leave the word to Gwelan which explained it in a way which touched me much in its site on the vibratory levels:
“For the very great majority among us, our implication in this radiesthesic discipline has matured with the frequentation of high vibratory places. They challenged us, educated, nourished… They were the essential ingredient of our awakenings.
I do not know what was thus given, not revealed with us. I suppose that each one will put at it the name which is appropriate for its beliefs, but it is one something which put to us in life, more, and sometimes even which revealed us with ourselves.
There is, between what is released from these places and ourselves, an intimacy even a new form of intelligence which was constituted gradually. It is with this intimacy, this intelligence, that it seems to to me interesting today to appeal, to endeavour there to foresee what is (perhaps) occurring: a phenomenon that we would not have to necessarily undergo, but which is perhaps a great progression appropriateness on the individual level. “
That it is thanked for it…
The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, historical
The shrine is placed under the term Sernin, or Saturnin, and was built on the site of his tomb. At the outset, this was
an oratory built under the leadership of the first bishop of Toulouse,
Hilaire, who draw up an oratory to honour the memory of his predecessor.
In the fifth
century, under the exceptional popularity of sanctuary and the
devotion of the faithful to the memory of the martyr, bishops Sylve and
Exupère did build a small church. Leftover Saturnin were placed in a marble sarcophagus inside the church. This was the first time that a community of monks moved to this location.
The abbot often objected to the bishop of Toulouse, whose cathedral Saint-Etienne had much less radiation than Saint-Sernin. The community grows and an abbey was built around the church, governed by the rules of St. Augustine.
The growth of de Compostela pilgrimage, making
Toulouse a mandatory step of the Tholosqua or via Arelatensis increase
the number of visitors. This added many relics whose reputation drew early crowds considerable.
The church became too small, the construction of the current basilica,
most important, was decided at the end of the eleventh century. It began under the auspices of architect Raymond Gayrard by the bedside, in 1080, above the chapel.
You can still visit today the primitive church, which acts as a crypt.
Sixteen years after the start of construction in 1096, Pope Urban II consecrated the altar carved by Bernard Gilduin. The completion of the transept and part of the nave is effective in 1180. The builders used primarily stone and brick up to the podium. But the high cost of the material forced to use only the brick in the upper parts of the building. It is in the Basilica of Saint-Sernin came as the first Gothic french experimentation.
A beautiful cloister and an important flanquaient abbey north of the basilica. Then the work dragged in length with structural changes until the XIV and even the sixteenth century to certain elements. The western towers were never completed.
During the Revolution, the chapter of Saint-Sernin was deleted. But the basilica was neither changed nor sacked. A restoration is ordered in the nineteenth century, carried out by Alexandre of Mège. But the result is poor and the restoration is pursued by Viollet-le-Duc. It restores then staging roofs and sides of the nave, which was abolished in the fourteenth century.
After the Revolution and the abandonment
of buildings of the abbey, it was decided to clear the basilica and to
make available its square and its various doors. This project will be implemented until the early nineteenth century. From 1804 to 1808, the cloister of the former abbey was dismantled. Some tents were preserved and are now visible to the Augustins museum. Then, through expropriation
and acquisitions, buildings are destroyed and buildings around the
church led by Jacques-Pascal Virebent to form an elliptical. It only remains that the Saint-Raymond museum , a former buildings of the abbey. Saint-Sernin remained merely a collegiate church until 1878, when it was finally consecrated basilica.
At the end of the twentieth century, a new restaurant
has removed the staging of Viollet-le-Duc and replace it with the state
of the XIV century.
Today, it is the largest Roman church kept in Europe. The building still has 260 tents novels and numerous frescoes. It keeps a perfect consistency, since manufacturers successive respected the original draft well beyond the Roman period. By its structure, Saint Sernin belongs to
the family of churches known as "relics and pilgrimages" vast nave
flanked by collateral, large transept highlight, choir deep surrounded
by an ambulatory with radiating chapels.
I thank the "learned societies in Toulouse," Georges Prat, Coline Meunier, and all the websites below:
http://www.coline-design.eu/infographie-@/5-index.html#project22 http://www.coline-design.eu/infographie- @ / index.html 5-# project22
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilique_Saint-Sernin_de_Toulouse
http://architecture.relig.free.fr/sernin.htm
http://catholique-toulouse.cef.fr/site/161.html
http://www.augustins.org/fr/monument/accueil.htm
http://www2.ac-toulouse.fr/culture/dossierspdf/Saintsernin.pdf.
http://archives.arte.tv/hebdo/archimed/19971230/ftext/archi.html
http://www.societes-savantes-toulouse.asso.fr/samf/geo/31/toulouse/stsernin/ftol98il.htm
http://pmaude.free.fr/Sernin/
08 août 2007
The dolmen of Pierre Luteau in Ruan (Loiret)
Ruan,
whose name means “Street” in Old Latin, was called “Ruata” into 870.
It was discovered there an old Gallo-Roman villa. This village has a
church of XIIth century, Saint-Felix.
A dolmen was found, Pierre
Luteau, nested in the middle of the fields, nearest the locality “Le Montant”. It is property of the district and was registered in the
historic buildings in 1992.
He suffered, but remains a rather rare witness of the Neolithic time in Beauce.
Many
legends are attached to it, hawked by the popular tradition, and people
of speak about it like “druidic” monument …
The Godon stone, in Tillay-le-Peneux (Eure et Loir)
Tillay-le-Peneux
is a small town in the conty of Orgères-in-Beauce. Mentioned under the
name of Tilietum-Pagani, Tilletum in 1198, Teillay-le-Pesneux in 1629.
The name comes from the lime-trees present on the territory since a long time.
Close to the locality of Soignoles stand
the dolmen known as the Godon stone. Excavations were carried out
there by Guy Richard, of the regional service of the Archaeology of
Orleans. It brought its classification under the Historical Monuments
in 1979.
At the time of the excavations, about fifty individuals were found (30 adults and of 12 children). According to a dating with carbon-14, they were buried between -3400 and -3000 before J. - C.
On
the architectural level, 5 stones out of limestone or grinding,
originaly verticals, delimited space where deaths were deposited.
A small flagstone in cover into grinding of 2,3 m by 2,2m covered and
determined the funerary room.
In
addition to the human remainders, osseous teeth and fragments, the
sediments of the room included some small objects out of cut flint
or bone and rare fragments of pottery. A furniture which makes it
possible to specify two periods of use of the sepulchre. The first at
the end of the average Neolithic era was completed by partial collapse of the flagstone of cover on the ground of the funerary room. This
event which was perhaps natural on other excavated sites was caused by
the last users of the sepulchre. 
During
the second period of use, in the final Neolithic era, other dead people are
deposited in the content of the room after being introduced vertically.
A pollinic analysis of the sediment contained in a cranium gives some
information on the environment of the megalith at the time of the
burial in particular the existence of corn fields rather distant but
revealing of an agricultural activity as well as the presence of limes
which will still stand until the modern time as the name of the village testifies it.
This monument was saved in extremis from destruction in 1975.
http://www.intensite.net/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=3342
The church St. Lawrence d' Outarville
Outarville
is a city of 750 inhabitants. Located in Beauce at 20 km in
the West of Pithiviers, it is bordering the Eure et Loir. The St.
Lawrence church was remade in XVIIth and was restored at the XIXth
century. Registered with the additional inventory of the historic
buildings, it has a before-porch of XIXth, which shelter a Roman
gate with semicircular arch, its bell is dated 1656.
It
is the third church of Outarville. The first was built during the XIIth century. The
cemetery was joined there, in the south, where the place of the market
is today. The second church was built arond 1400 per Jean II Le Vannier. It was burned in 1567 during religion's wars. The third and actual one, was rebuilt by Galéas de Frétard, lord of Outarville. 
Turning around the church, one discovers indeed various elements
which correspond to various times: the porch testifies to the most
recent work and evokes the beginning of the XIXth century. Under the porch, the gate was build in the XIIIth. Six columns
support capitals. 
The
Northern wall is oldest. The East pinion present a triplet, the window of
the medium surmounts a small buttress. The Southern wall shows the
trace of an arch. The bell-tower is a solid square tower. This kind of
turn is seen in all Beauce exposed to the wind. In 1937, the old
tiles punts composing the cover, were replaced by slates. In 1968, the
old rough coat of pink color was pickled. The stones were then
rejointed, which restored at the building its first character. In the
same way, the white enamelled dial of the clock, on the Western
pinion was replaced by a simple gilded metal circle.
The
XVIIIth century left us two wood statues: SAINT LAURENT and St Jean
Baptist. The XIXth century saw building the platform and opening a
window in the southern wall. In the XXth
century, the chorus was refitted about 1930. In 1963, the grid of this
chorus was re-used to constitute a door closing the lower part of the
bell-tower. The furnace bridge leaned with the East wall, as well as the
retable were removed. 
A
furnace bridge “facing the people” was installed on a wood estrade
which covers the stone steps. this church was built on an old
crowned templar line. One notices out a keystone with a significant
cross. The church is remarkable for the progression of energies. One can
feel the traces of an old megalith, probably located under the Southern
part of the building.
http://beauce45-catholique-orleans.cef.fr/Html/eglises/outarville.htm
07 août 2007
The "Pierre-clouée" of Andonville
Andonville
is a french little town located in the department of Loiret (45). Its
church, built in XIVth century, under the term of Saint-Pierre and
Saint-Wolf, was in the beginning a castral vault. It was
included in the strengthened enclosure. A kind of crypt or
vault, in the undergrounds, contains the tombs of the lords of the
place. One still finds remainders of foundations of the castle,
destroyed in the XIXth century, and an enclosure.
Actually,the pilgrimage of Saint-Wolf is still attended. Near to the village, one finds the sources of Juine, Fountain and Saint-Jacob.
A
little further, by the road of Annemont, 600 meters in the south of the
borough, is drawn up a stone, the "Pierre-clouée", or Clouet, also said Pierre
Koraïre. It is a dolmen dated from the Neolithic era, classified
historic building since 1992. It has more than 6.000 years. 
In
the middle of the fields, it was, according to the
legend, the place of appointment of the Gallic chiefs of the vicinity.
Formed
of several blocks of sandstone, it presents on one on its sides, the
grooves of polishing machine. Its flagstone of cover was broken in
three pieces.
On
one of the stones, several cups were dug. Deepest in
top, then a series of smaller others communicating between them. In
the bottom of the stone under the dolmen, one can see a hole. With which ritual this
stone was used?
05 août 2007
The church of Salt-in-Donzy
In between
Forez, Lyonnais and Roannais, the Morning Mountains are nested in a framework of small valleys and hills, nearby of the Lyonnais Mounts and the river Loire
Salt-in-Donzy,
nested in these mountains, has an antic and rich past. Men
left there marks of all the times: from Gallo-roman period, where an activity develop itself nearby the thermal baths to the medieval time with the site of
Donzy, the church of Roman style, priory… 
But also far before, attested by the discovery of the prehistoric site
of the valley of Charpassonne. Salt, whom name means “which
spouts out”, allusion to the source of hot water of the Gour-Heat, was
an important city at the crossing of two Roman roadways. 
The
church was, with its foundation, the church of the benedictan
priory whose building equipped with a tower remains, not far from the road. This building whose foundations are
Gallo-Roman, was given in 1018 in a state of outdatedness to the abbey
of Savigny to become priory at the same time as a church close under
the term to Saint Julien. The givers were two lords of Donzy, Girlin
and Jarenton, whose castle still offers to us imposing ruins, about two km
from here.
Recent
excavations restored the foundations of this primitive church of 1018.
It had three absidioles in the north visible on the northern side
of the current church. Its basement comprised many burials of the Early
middle ages with their funerary rites (ablation of the feet, reduction
of skeleton). Fragments of engraved bones and a burgonde currency
accompanied them, as well as potteries.
This
pre-Roman church was demolished at the beginning of XIIth century,
and its materials reinstated in the new construction industry, with the
use of the monks and the parish which developed around the priory.
The current church, 1140, is roman, meridionnal influence, in an austere unit. 
The
pilot wheels of the transept are decorated with blind arcades of which
one, equipped with a barrel of column having probably supported a
furnace bridge, ended in a painted absidiole. Cupola in blocking on
rudimentary horns and squared pillars supported the bell-tower. 
The
chorus presents openings in semicircular arch: the small window of left
gives primitive dimension, the other openings having been widened
later.
With transept crossing, the bell-tower rests on four
enormous granite pillars. Each pillar comprises 3 steps in order to
give more lightness to the unit. Two of these pillars are crowned with very
simple capitals: they are the only sculptures of the building. 
On the meridionnal side , in the right arm of the transept, the blank wall is
supported by two arcades in semicircular arch. Between the two, a
fragment of column, vestige of the Roman temple on the ruins of which
the priory of Salt was high.
The
church suffered during the wars of religion. In 1570, a fire destroyed the nave. The church was then reduced to its
only transept. Work of restoration was undertaken after 1614. The
restoration of 1977 made it possible to restore the church in its
primitive provision and made fall the coatings. One rediscovered the
blind arcades of the southern brace then, the door of the bell-tower,
the door of the brace northern, known as “door of the monks”.
In
the apse, a cavity forming “depositorium” was released and formed the
current gate vault. The depositorium was in the beginning an inviolable place, firmly closed, where one placed the holy species during the
disturbed periods.
The
stoup, at the entry, also testifies to the church of 1018. In the right
arm of the transept, on the ground, an enigmatic star is traced…
04 août 2007
The abbey of Noirlac, history
Before the appearance of the cistercians, quite even the arrival
of the Romans, the area saw the man of Heidelberg (related
with the family of the homo erectus). The many prospections in the river Cher gave place to discovered very old industries, of which
there remain to us tools, cut in the rollers.
Quite still, at the beginning of Jurassic, the area is covered with a
not very deep hot sea in edge of the Central Massif. An important
sedimentation generates deposits, qualified of Hettangien according to
the determination of Eugene Rénevier. But I am mislaid.
(http://drevant.free.fr/index.php?lng=fr)
The
Abbey of Noirlac was called the Abbey "House of God" (Momus dei). It is
located in the north of Saint-Amand Montrond, on right bank of the river Cher, in the commune of Bruère-Allichamps: geometrical center of
France according to calculations' of the French geographer
Adolphe-Laurent Joanne. He was found there a boundary-stone dating from the
reign of Alexandre Sévère (180-235). It is the only boundary-stone
which attests of a trivium (crossroads of three roads). It had been dug
out of sarcophagus.
House of God?
The site had this denomination until 1276. It would be necessary to see
there one of these many house-God, modest charitable foundations for
the poor travellers, or of a small hermitage, witness of the
spiritualism of this time. A many cistercians communities accepted the
hospitality of hermits, when they were not called to take again the
hermitages.
It
is in 1136, in this wild and uncultivated site, at the bottom of a
marshy valley, in accordance with the tradition, that 12 monks
resulting from Clairvaux settled. They were under the control of their
abbot, Robert de Châtillon, nearest relative of Bernard de Clairvaux: “Plant where water runs, it is that abounds the grace there”
said Saint Bernard… which was even obliged to intervene in 1149
near the king so that the small community, stripped of all, can survive.
A donation took place in the following year. It marked the material
foundation of the abbey. The lord of the place, Ebb V of Charenton,
ensured the means to them of surviving and granted to the monks, who
lived hitherto of gathering and alms, in 1150 their first charter of
establishment. He gave up any seigniorial rights in this place, to
build an abbey in the honor of Notre-Dame.
The abbey is a place three times over closed (triple enclosure of druids?) :
the first fence is ensured by topography even, the river bank on a
side, the slope of the hill of the other, ahead and behind
bulky woods. The second fence contains what one
calls the farmyard. It is there that the visitors are received and that
are gathered the utility buildings. It was initially of piles and
spines, before becoming stone wall. With the East of the court rise the
conventual buildings, whose quadrilateral forms the third enclosure.
At
the end of XIIth century appear the first indirect incomes: dîme,
revenues of silver, seignorial products. The abbey grows rich gradually
to reach its apogee about 1250. The great donations ceased at the end
of XIIIth century. It is at this period that "House of God" became Noirlac
(first mention in 1322). The tradition reports that it is in this time
that the son of a lord drowned in the river Cher not far from the abbey,
during a hunting and that the abbey took this name because of this
incident. But one can notice that the stone quarry bore already the
name of Noirlac in 1261…
In
1423, the monks accepted the authorization to strengthen the abbey,
after the episode of the occupation of the places by the roughneck
soldiers of the English captain Robert Knolles between 1359 and 1360.
They raised a keep, whose access was defended by a drawbridge placed on
a ditch full of water which ran all along the frontage of the church.
At
the end of XVth century the abbey passes through a major moral crisis.
Then the system came from the commende which did not arrange anything
with the business. At the XVIIth century, there remained 4 monks in
the walls…
In 1650, the buildings are seriously damaged in the adverse combat in favour of Prince de Condé and royal troops.
In
1724, work of rebuilding is undertaken. Finished in 1730, after the
obligation to sell wood, they completely transform the wing of the
monks which resembles now a traditional frontage of castle. The
remainders of fortifications are shaved.
With
the revolution, the abbey is ready to be sold like country house under
the nationnals goods. It was repurchased by Amable-Jean Desjobert, a Parisian man
of law. In 1822, the residence is repurchased by
manufacturers, Merlin de Failly and Hull. They transformed the buildings
into porcelain factory, whereas the southern wing was reserved to the
director, the old dormitory to the workmen. In the church, drying
kilns and the workshop of enamel in the chorus…
In
1894, the abbot Jules Pailler, cleaned of Saint Amand, buy the all building. To install its orphanage, he undertake a first repairing.
Then
in 1909, after its acquisition by the department of Cher, Noirlac
is used as vacation camp to the first small singers with the wood cross.
In 1950, restoration under the control of the architects Ranjard and Lebouteux which will end in 1980.
The abbey church
After
having crossed the arcade, remains long arched passage which formed the
entry of the fence, we are in front of the abbey church. The gate of
entry, on the Western frontage, was in XIIIth century preceded by a
porch of 4 arched spans.
The
church takes again the cistercian plan in cross, composed of two spans
with flat bedside, opened on the transept crossing whose each brace
carries, in the East, two vaults.
The
nave includes 8 arched spans of warheads and is composed of
an alongside central vessel of two sides. Dimensions of the church
contribute to the harmony of all the monastery:
Overall
length of 59 m, width 17, length of the transept 28 m and width 8 m,
chorus reduced to 10 m by 8. The vaults of the transept rise to 17 m
under key.
It should be noted that the width of the principal nave
passes 8 m between the piles close to the transept to 7,35 m at the
entry of the church, which forms a trapezoid and not a rectangle, as in
Bourges.
The
unit was built in three shifts: 1150-1160, which saw rising the
sanctuary, the transept, and the first two spans. Then between 1170 and
1190, the Southern wall of the nave, which borders the northern gallery
of the cloister, then finally, in first half of XIIIth century, the
completion of the nave, the frontage of entry and the porch.
The
church comprises two levels of rise: small windows nest under the
vaults, above large broken arcades. Those fall down on rectangular
piles. The barrel of the columns narrows in its high part, on the level
of the bases, which support the repercussion of the warheads. 
The
northern arm of the transept is lit by three broken windows and a
polylobed pink. At the extremity, one finds the door of dead which gave on
the old cemetery, located behind the head of the church close to a vault dedicated
to Marie-madeleine, missing in the XVIIIth century.
The cloister
The
cloister serves by its galleries all the essential parts of the abbey:
the chapter house, the sacristy, the room of the monks, the refectory.
Its
galleries open on a garden whose well is eccentric. One can imagine
that a first cloister, square, existed before the reconsrtuction of the
current one. Its groined vaults are still visible in the galleries
north and south. The rebuilding started with the galleries north,
against the church, then western, against the storeroom. The posts make
it possible to allot these galleries to the period 1270-1280.
The southern gallery was very altered, and one assigns a dating around 1300 to him.
The
Eastern part is dated from first half of XIVth century:
arched warheads on square level, it presents broad arcades formed of a
quadruple blind arcade and a hollow tympanum of an alongside pink of
two curvilinear triangles, with clovers and polylobed profiles. One
will notice the last blind arcade, whose tympanum forms a rose with 5
petals, contrary to the three others which have an opening clover. What
does it occur there?
In
decoration of foliage ((vineleaves and cistelle) which decorates the
capitals, vis-a-vis the chapter house, two heads of man and woman. This
is unexpected in a Cistercian abbey, and a message is surely hidden. 
A little further, a head look at on the other side of the gallery,
where we find an echo (bird?) surrounded by foliages. The mouth is open
in the shape of O. It seems to me that a sacred network passes in this
place.
It
is in this gallery that in 1893, the excavations allowed to find the grave from the founder, the abbot Robert de Châtillon, who died about
1163. The body was covered with a maroon bore-hole dress, capped, fitted of a pair of sandals. A stole violet and gold
surrounded the neck. Beside, a stick out of wooden.
