Chenonceau Château, Loire, France travel video
Chenonceau, this French chateau spanning the River Cher, is one of the best-known chateaux of the Loire valley, and is the only chateau which is built above a river and connected with each bank by a bridge.
Chenonceaux is moored like a ship in the middle of the rapidly running Cher, a dozen miles or more above where that stream enters the Loire. The general effect is as if the building were set in the midst of the stream and formed a sort of island chateau.
The current chateau was built in 1514 - 1522 on the foundations of an old mill and was later extended to span the river. It took another 50 years to complete the bridge and the chateau wing on the bridge, with an architectural mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance.
Chenonceau gets 1.3 million annual visitors, second-most popular chateau in France after Versailles.
The chateau has been classified as a Monument historique since 1840 by the French Ministry of Culture.
The original chateau built in the 13th century was torched in 1412 and later rebuilt along with a fortified mill on the site in the 1430s.
That chateau was demolished and an entirely new residence built between 1515 and 1521.
For the next 70 years the chateau changed ownership in a very complicated series of royal events that seem like an exaggerated historical movie, involving a bitter rivalry between a king's mistress and his wife. Let's try and follow this crazy chain of intrigue for a minute.
In 1535 the chateau was seized by King Francis I of France for unpaid debts to the Crown; after Francis' death in 1547, his son, King Henry II offered the chateau as a gift, not to his wife, Catherine de Medici, but to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who became fervently attached to the chateau along the river. Henry also gave Diane much more political power while generally ignoring his young wife Catherine for the next decade.
Diane extended the chateau across the river and oversaw the planting of extensive flower and vegetable gardens along with a variety of fruit trees.
After King Henry II died in 1559, his strong-willed widow Catherine de' Medici took revenge and forced Diane out of the chateau, making Chenonceau her own favorite residence. Catherine, who was daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent in Florence, became one of the most powerful women in 16th century Europe. With Henry, she gave birth to three French kings and two queens, but Catherine herself reigned as de facto queen after her husband passed away, until her death in 1589.
As ruler of France, Catherine spent a fortune on the chateau, eager to outdo the work of her rival, Diane. Catherine extended the grand gallery across the entire river, adding many rooms, a new series of gardens, and throwing spectacular nighttime parties.
And yet this was a turbulent time for the country, which was suffering from religious wars between catholic and protestant that killed many thousands.
Catherine considered an even greater expansion of the chateau, to make it five times larger, but this never happened.
Catherine's son, King Henry III, gave the chateau to his wife, Louise, but then Henry was assassinated eight months later, which put his widow into a state of depression for the remainder of her days, which she spent wandering aimlessly along the chateau's corridors dressed in mourning clothes amidst somber black tapestries stitched with skulls and crossbones.
Then Catherine's son-in-law became King Henri IV and gave Chenonceau to his mistress after paying the debts of Catherine and Louise.
In 1650, Louis XIV was the last king to visit, bringing to an end the regal possession.
in 1720 The Chateau was bought by the Duke of Bourbon who eventually sold off all of the castle's contents, with many of the fine statues ending up at Versailles.
Later in the 1700s it became a gathering place for leaders of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
It was spared from destruction during the French Revolution, because it was essential to travel and commerce, being the only bridge across the river for many miles.
The chateau was sold several more times, finally purchased in 1913 byt the Menier family, which still owns it, and welcomes visitors every day of the year.
Places to see in ( Bordeaux - France ) Pessac
Places to see in ( Bordeaux - France ) Pessac
Pessac (Occitan: Peçac) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is a member of the metropolis of Bordeaux, being the second-largest suburb of Bordeaux and located just southwest of it. Pessac is also home to the Montesquieu University, the Bordeaux Montaigne University, and the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux.
Pessac is located in the south of the Bordeaux metro area and is surrounded by Bordeaux, Talence, Gradignan, Canéjan, Cestas, Saint-Jean-d'Illac et Mérignac. The western part of the commune is part of the Landes de Bordeaux.
Early in World War II (June 22 1940), the town was the scene of a quadruple execution on the firing range of Verthamon. Four communist militants, one of whom, Roger Rambaud, was not yet 17, were among the escapees from the military prison in Paris, were killed in the utmost secrecy by soldiers of the Third Republic. This case, classified Secret Defense for 70 years, has recently been revealed by the historian Jacky Tronel in the history magazine Arkheia.
Neighborhoods of Pessac:
Verthamon
Les échoppes
Brivazac - Candau
Noës
Pessac-bourg
Casino
Sardine
Chiquet
Compostelle - La Paillère
Le Monteil
CCLAPS - La Chataigneraie
Saige - Formanoir
3 M (Macédo, Mirante, Monbalon)
France - L'Alouette
Cap de Bos
Magonty - Romainville
Toctoucau
( Bordeaux - France ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Bordeaux . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Bordeaux - France
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Carte Postale du Canal du Centre Bourgogne - Octobre 2018
C’est par une nouvelle carte postale vidéo-musicale que je viens jusqu’à vous. Allons ensemble dans la direction de Paray le Monial sur l’itinéraire des voies navigables de France sur le Canal du Centre. Plus qu’un Canal utilisé par les péniches, il est devenu au fil des dernières années l’un des canaux les plus prisés par les plaisanciers avec leurs petites embarcations pour se laisser porter au fil de l’eau au même titre que le Canal du Midi. Bonne découverte fluviale.
Mit einer neuen video-musikalischen Postkarte komme ich zu Ihnen. Wir gehen gemeinsam in Richtung Paray le Monial auf den Wasserstraßen Frankreichs am Canal du Centre. Mehr als ein Kanal, der von Lastkähnen und grosse Schiffen genutzt wird, ist er in den letzten Jahren zu einem der beliebtesten Kanäle für Bootsfahrer geworden, mit seinen kleinen Booten, die wie Canal du Midi am Wasser ist er ganz Sonderlich. Gute Flussentdeckung.
It is by a new video-musical postcard that I come to you. Let's go together in the direction of Paray le Monial on the route of the waterways of France on the Canal du Center. More than a canal used by barges, it has become over the last few years one of the most popular canals for boaters with their small boats to be carried along the water as the Canal du Midi. Good river discovery.
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Slow TV. Scenic drives - The road trip quarterly - Cannes to Saint Raphaël in France
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Slow TV. Scenic drives - The road trip quarterly - Cavalaire-sur-Mer to Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in France
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PARIS, THE CITY OF LIGHT (Full Length HD Version)
DIRECTOR: Benjamin Trancart (Trak)
CONTACT: benjamin.trancart@yahoo.fr
MUSIC: Yasawas-Amon Tobin
Paris, City of Light doesn't mean the city with a lot of beautiful lights but, rather, the city where, during the eighteenth century, the lights of science (with the biologists like Buffon or Jussieu and with the encyclopedy writers like Diderot or d'Alembert) and the lights of philosophy (Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Montesquieu, ...) have been lit.
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Slow TV. Scenic drives - The road trip quarterly - Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron to Montgenèvre
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Paris - The City of Light (HD Teaser CC-BY-SA-NC-Track Benjamin Trancart)
Paris, City of Light doesn't mean the city with a lot of beautiful lights but, rather, the city where, during the eighteenth century, the lights of science (with the biologists like Buffon or Jussieu and with the encyclopedy writers like Diderot or d'Alembert) and the lights of philosophy (Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Montesquieu, ...) have been lit.
Here's a selection of recent timelapses shot mostly in Paris during the last months. Those shots have been taken at spare times, night time, getting obsessed with the Stage 0 dolly from Dynamic Perception.
Teaser shots:
-Pyramide du Louvre
-La Défense
-Montsec
-Pont des Invalides
-Deuxnouds aux Bois
-Notre Dame
-Beaubourg
-Place de la Concorde
-Eglise Saint-Séverin
-Place des Pyramides
Music: Yasawas-Amon Tobin
Realized by Benjamin Trancart. CC-BY-SA-NC Track Benjamin Trancart. Published 1st on Vimeo.
Uploaded on Youtube for the International Student's Community Erasmus of Paris - facebook.com/ErasmusOfParis