A Visit to the Ideal Palace of Cheval the Postman (France)
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Anyone who appreciates naïve art considers this an important thing to try to see. It was done over several decades in the 19th c. in the Drôme region of France. It's situated in the village of Hauterives. It's in the middle of nowhere, really (but a very pleasant, rural area) but again, if you like naïve art or the insolite, this is a must-see.
He was a rural postman and had no advantages or education. He taught himself by reading some magazines he delivered, and despite his rather sad life, he was inspired by pictures of exotic lands and an expanding, modernizing world. Often using just a wheelbarrow, he used mostly local rocks to create this ... thing ... which is very large. It has grottoes and a nice park and sort of observation thing near it. His house is still there. We also went to see his tomb in the cemetery not too far away and not difficult to find. He built that, too, over a long time.
I am available as a private guide in France and can possibly advise you about doing business here.
I noted some camping and RV facilities around here. Again, this is a very quiet region. We had a nice lunch locally then saw this (I think the price was about ten euros per person and we ate in a pleasant garden -- there are some rather touristy places around here but they all seemed quite nice and reasonably priced). We had a long drive from a vacation in the center of France and then the South of France back to Paris, so stopped here for a break, then stayed a night in Southern Burgundy in a place called Tournus. I have clips up of this. I have two channels here on YouTube and also post on Dailymotion under LisaFalour.
If you like naïve art, I do have some clips up you might enjoy, including some on Marcel Storr. We have traveled to several different countries to see these works, sometimes visiting psychiatric institution art galleries, such as a great one in Ghent, Belgium, to do this. It is worth it. The works are often uplifting and extraordinary. They are generally done by people with no formal art training.
This clip was made in September, 2012, late in the vacation season, so we got good prices on two houses we rented -- one in Auvergne, one in Lubéron. As you can see here, the lizards were happy and it was a warm, not hot, very pleasant and sunny day. We got back to Paris and the grey skies and rain set in, and I caught a bad cold! So it goes.
France is a wonderful country to visit and we love other countries but often take our vacations here, as there is so much variety. I adore Belgium, Italy and Iceland, for example, but really, there is so much here, I don't have to go far! Right around Paris there are extraordinary things to see and places to stay.
Motorhome aire in Hauterives, Drome, France
Motorhome aire (overnight stopping place) in Hauterives, Drome, France.
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Dramatic 2,000 Year Old Cahors, France
Cahors has an ultra-dramatic location, contained on three sides within a U-shaped bend in the River Lot. It is the chief city of the Lot and was founded 2,000 years ago by the Romans.
Today Cahors is perhaps best known as a famous wine center. Wander around the narrow streets in the old section with medieval houses, Baroque doorways, and Secret Gardens then sit down in a cafe or along the Lot River to watch the world go by.
L'abbaye de Hautecombe (Savoie - France)
(EN) Hautecombe Abbey (Latin Altacumba, Altæcumbæum) is a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille near Aix-les-Bains in Savoy, France. For centuries it was the burial place of the members of the House of Savoy. It is visited by 150,000 tourists yearly.
The origins of Hautecombe lie in a religious community which was founded about 1101 in a narrow valley (or combe) near Lake Bourget by hermits from Aulps Abbey, near Lake Geneva. In about 1125 it was transferred to a site on the north-western shore of the lake under Mont du Chat, which had been granted to it by Amadeus, Count of Savoy, who is named as the founder; and shortly afterwards it accepted the Cistercian Rule from Clairvaux. The first abbot was Amadeus de Haute-Rive, afterwards Bishop of Lausanne. Two daughter-houses were founded from Hautecombe at an early date: Fossanova Abbey (afterwards called For Appio), in the diocese of Terracina in Italy, in 1135, and San Angelo de Petra, close to Constantinople, in 1214.
It has sometimes been claimed, but as often disputed, that Pope Celestine IV and Pope Nicholas III were monks at Hautecombe.
Apart from its exceptionally beautiful location, the chief interest of Hautecombe is that it was for centuries the burial-place of the Counts and Dukes of Savoy. Count Humbert III, known as Blessed, and his wife Anne were interred there in the latter part of the 12th century; and about a century later Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury (1245--1270), son of Count Thomas I of Savoy, was buried in the sanctuary of the abbey church. He had come out from England with King Edward I to accompany him in a crusade, but died at the castle of St. Helena in Savoy.
The abbot Anthony of Savoy, a son of Charles Emmanuel I, was also buried there in 1673.
The abbey was restored (in a debased style) by one of the dukes about 1750, but it was secularized and sold in 1792, when the French entered Savoy, and was turned into a china-factory. King Charles Felix of Sardinia purchased the ruins in 1824, had the church re-constructed by the Piedmontese architect Ernest Melano in an exuberant Gothic-Romantic style, and restored it to the Cistercian Order. He and his queen, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, are buried in the Belley chapel, which forms a kind of vestibule to the church. Some 300 statues and many frescoes adorn the interior of the church, which is 215 feet (66 m) long, with a transept 85 feet (26 m) wide. Most of the tombs are little more than reproductions of the medieval monuments.
The Cistercians re-settled the abbey from Turin, but the Italian monks soon left, and were replaced by others from Sénanque Abbey, who remained until about 1884. The premises were taken over by the Benedictines of Marseilles Priory in 1922, but in 1992 the monks left for Ganagobie Abbey in the Alpes de Haute Provence, and the buildings are now administered by the Communauté du Chemin-Neuf, an ecumenical and charismatic Roman Catholic group. (Wikipedia)
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Place Saint Pierre, Geneva, Switzerland
I was in Geneva, Place Saint-Pierre, waiting for an hot air balloon to takeoff... but it never happens: weather conditions were inappropriate... I didn't knew that they took-off in the morning. Anyway, I made this short time-lapse video with my GoPro and a tripod.
1 shot every two second, then rendered at 10fps in QuicktimePro.
Enjoy.
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facteur cheval
Facteur Cheval was probably the world's most energetic postman. What he achieved by working all the hours God gave and walking at least 20 miles per day into the bargain.
BARGING THROUGH FRANCE PT 17 - LA DROME
Host Richard Goodwin continues his adventure through France with a report from the La Drome area of France:
At the end of the 19th.Century, Ferdinand Cheval, a postman in Haut-Rives, constructed his ideal palace which was purely decorative. It took him 33 years and at the same time he was doing his postal round which was between 30-40 kms per day. Imagine coming back after walking all that way and then getting going on your passion. He said that while he was walking on the same route every day, it gave him the chance to dream. He had worked as a baker and was therefore used to working with dough so he knew how to make the shapes you see decoration his ideal palace. He really was a marathon man and had gotten used to people thinking he was quite mad. It is, however an extraordinary monument to one man's extraordinary vision and has become in own way a major work of art. He was a truly remarkable man and in his way a poet in stone.
Bernard Cathelin, who is another artist but of a much more conventional kind, had been a professor of art at the Beaux Art in Paris which is the top art school in the capital. He owes his artistic career entirely to his mother and the countryside of the Drome where he has this house and grounds. His simple paintings express the intercourse between man and nature.
The countryside of the Drome keeps calling me back.
The countries that impressed him most were Mexico for the colour he saw there and Japan for its reflection. My roots are very strong from here. I had a beautiful mother who put me on the path to beauty. It talks moving about the mysterious properties of lavender.
The little village of Soyons is dominated by its castle and a beautiful Romanesque church. In the village is the egg museum created and run by Francoise She has minute eggs from the humming bird to giant dinosaur eggs 700 million years old.
Of course I asked her whether the chicken or the eggs came first and she gives a very clear and definitive answer but you will have to watch the episode to hear her answer. Francoise shows the amazing things that you can do with an egg like making lace. Then she took me to her witches' garden where she has a number of strange herbs and other devices. This really is a beautiful place. She tries to convince me that these beans are the beans Jack used in Jack and the Beanstalk.
The castle of Aulan is a remarkable place because it has been entirely restored by the very amazing Count Aulan who told me that the castle had been in the since 1313 which is quite a hunk of time. The family nearly lost the castle in the First World War through some unscrupulous, dishonest lawyer. The robust octogenarian Count Aulan has many a good story to tell.
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