Normandy & Brittany August 14 –September 1 / 2008 Not so laughing bull ...........and 2 days in Paris
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Normandy & BrittanyAugust 14 –September 1 / 2008
Not so laughing bull
...........and 2 days in
Paris
Roadmap
Normandy
HonfleurVieux Bassin
HonfleurEglise / Clocher Ste-Catherine
Honfleur
Market Day
HonfleurCheeses
Cheeses…
Honfleur
………and………….……………..……………………….after
Cider Before
Cidre
Honfleur
Garlicman
Spice boys
HonfleurChamber d’hotes
Atelier Simone L‘Hermitte
Rue de l’Homme-de-Bois
Pont de NormandieHonfleur
…..the most beautiful ruin in France
Abbaye de Jumiege11-th Century
Abbaye de Jumiege
Abbaye de Jumiege
Abbot’s Lodging 17-th Century
Rouen
Cathedrale Notre-Dame 12-th Century
Capital of Upper Normandy
RouenCathedrale Notre-Dame
Serial paintings, 1890s
Claude Monet
Rouen
Cathedrale Notre-Dame
Rouen
Old City
Old City Rouen
Old and New
Rouen
and ….very New
Old Town virtually wiped out in 1944Europe’s worst damaged port after WW II
Le Havre
Tthe center was rebuilt in ‘modernist’ style by Auguste Perret.
It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005 for "innovative utilization of concrete's potential."
Place de l’Hotel-de-Ville
Le Havre
WW IMonument
Eglise St-JosephLe Havre
Le Havre
The Vulcano
Espace Oscar Niemeyer
1972-78
Le HavreMusee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux
Le Havre
Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux
Auguste Renoir
Le Havre Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre MalrauxRaoul
Dufy
Le Havre
Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux
Eugene Boudin
EtretatFalaiseD’Amont
Etretat Falaise d’Aval
Les Halles Wooden covered market
Etretat
Windows & walls
Etretat
..just a wallEtretat
One building, 4 styles:•Primary Gothic•Flamboyant Gothic•Early French Renaissance•Neoclassical ….and a touch of Modern
Chateau Fontaine-Henry 11-th to 16-th Century
Chateau Fontaine-Henry
Chateau Fontaine-Henry
Peekaboo! I see you!
Chateau Fontaine-Henry
Inside&
Outside
Ancienne eglise de Thaon
12-th Century
Deauville …a heaven for the rich and famous
Deauville
….and Now
Beach ….Then
She washere
Eugene Boudin (1865)
Deauville
Line-up of the Rich and Famous
8-th Century
Le Mont-St-Michel
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Le Mont-St-Michel
View from below
View from the top
Crowds are coming
Le Mont-St-Michel
Interior Design
Le Mont-St-Michel
Le Mont-St-Michel
..not far from the abbey
Brittany
St-Jacut-de-la-Mer
Dinan Rue du Jerzual
Dinan
Rue du Jerzual
Dinan Windows
Dinan
Walls
& Benches
Dinan
BasiliqueSt-Sauveur
Dinan
Chambre d’hotes‘Belle Assise’
St-Malo
St-MaloWalled city
St-MaloPeople of
St-MaloBeaches
St-Malo Chateau
Cancale Brittany’s oyster capital
Cancale
Oyster farming
(Parc a huitres)
Cancale
Oyster selling
Lemon extra 0.50 €
Cancale
Oyster eating
..and the leftovers
Cancale
..drinks
..anybody?
Cancale
Having fun
..at all ages
Pointe du Grouin
Pointe du Grouin
Pointe du Grouin
Le Mont St-Michel
St-Lunaire
beaches
St-LunaireBeach houses…for rich ….and poor people
Dinard Tents…for rich people
St-Lunaire Market Day
Low
tide
St-Jacut-de-la-Mer
Cote d’Emeraude vue
Fort la Latte12th Century
Cap FrehelCote d’Emeraude
Quimper
Cathedrale
St-Corentin
13-15th Century
Quimper
Quimper
Faience style train
Quimper style Faience
Quimper
2 + 3 = typical French familysomewhere ..in Quimper
France now has the second-highest fertility rate in Europe
Incent ives for famil ies who have a 3-rd chi ld . During a year-long leave after the birth of the third child, mothers will receive $960 a month from the government, twice the allowance for the second child.
Under French law, a woman can take up to 3 years off . Her full-time job will be guaranteed when she returns
5
1 + 2
Child subsidies also apply to Brad Pitt and Angel ina Jol ie . They are eligible for $2,600 a month in child benefits for their six children after registering their French chateau as their primary residence.
Quimper Wedding in Quimper
Parish Closes
Guimiliau
(Enclos paroissiaux)
Church
Charnel House Funeral Chapel
Ossuary
Triumphal Arch
Cemetery
Church
Calvary
16-th & 17-th centuries
ChurchSizun
Lampal-Guimiliau
Church
St-ThegonnecChurch
PleybenChurch
Interiors
Sizun
Lampal-Guimiliau
Sizun
Lampal-Guimil iau
Painted wood Modern window
Guimiliau
Ossuaries St-ThegonnecCemeteries were tiny and bodies had to be exhumed.
Bones were piled up in these shelters, considered a bridge between the living and the dead.
SizunOssuary ………..changed to Funeral Chapel….changed to Tourist Souvenirs shop
Sizun Triumphal Arch ….symbol of “the entry of the righteous to immortality”
Guimiliau Calvary
Typical Breton monuments representing scenes from Crucifixion and Passion
Guimiliau Calvary
Pleyben Calvary Calvary
The Last Supper
Calvary details
St-Thegonnec
The Blindfolded Christ
Guimiliau
Calvary detailsPleyben
Lampal-GuimiliauCalvary detailsCalvary details
Guimiliau
More Details
Sizun
Eve is born Adam, Eve and the Apple
Sleeping?..drunken?
Morlaix
Eglise St-Melaine15-th Century
Morlaix‘Viaduct’ for
Paris –Brest railway19-th Century
Baix de Morlaix Ile Callot
Road under water
Monts d’AreeRoc Trevezel
Windmills
BrestOceanopolis
Presqu’Ille de Crozon
Pointe de Penhir
Presqu’Ille de Crozon
Pointe de Penhir
Presqu’Ille de Crozon
Pointe de Penhir
Presqu’Ille de Crozon
Pointe de Penhir
Presqu’Ille de Crozon
Pointe de Penhir
Presqu’Ille de Crozon
Pointe de Penhir
Presqu’Ille de Crozon
Pointe des Espagnoles
Carnac
Megaliths
Menec: 1,170 menhirs
Kermario: 990 menhirs
Kerlescan: 540 menhirs
Carnac
Different stones
for different people
Carnac
Tumulus
St-Michel
Dolmen
Locmariquer
Carved stone inside the dolmen
Dolmen
Dolmen de Mane-Rethual
Walled town
Concarneau
Window detail
Concarneau Soup bowls with a touch2000 surnames available
Concarneau7 sins
Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven
Aven river
Watermill 2008
Watermill –by Gauguin 1894
Pont-Aven
Early 1890s : Pont-Aven School was an artists' colony gathering around Paul Gauguin
Today: tourists gathering around many commercial art galleries
Paul Gauguin neither was born or ever lived here.
When Gauguin is away…Paudevillle is filling in.
Fouesnant-les-Glenan
Our little house near Quimper
Kerdevot
One piece stone cow
trough
Gran’pa used to live there
…the cow lived here
Our little house near Quimper…..and our neighbours Kerdevot