Places linked to a character to visit France

Gerbetière is a noble house whose name comes from gerbernate, which used to name a place where the blades were stored and located just near the house. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was a multi-disciplinary man, both painter, scholar, scholar, poet and adventurer. Naturalist and famous animal artist, he spent his youth in Couëron. Its childhood home, La Gerbetière, is visible in the street that bears its name. Until 1821, she appeared on the Audubon family before being bought by the mayor of Couëron in 2003. The stay is only on the Heritage Days.

Here you will discover a charming Renaissance inner courtyard, where a turret in saillie commands galleries with arcades in full hanger.

Swann, Aunt Léonie, "François le Champi"… if you are an amateur of French literature in general and Marcel Proust in particular, these names necessarily tell you something. And the spirit of these characters of the novel undoubtedly floats in the house of Illiers-Combray in which young Marcel Proust went through his vacation, his uncle and his aunt Jules and Elisabeth Amiot, and that it is possible to visit. The discovery begins with the garden, by the Orangerie then it is the visit of the house: kitchen, dining room, rooms, music room with piano… On the second floor, the attic of the house is devoted to a collection of black and white portraits of Paul Nadar, son of the Grand Nadar, representing all the personalities of the th century, most of whom were used to the Salon salon. Some probably inspired the characters of the Lost time Search. Finally, it should be noted that the "Tante Maison House" recently received the label of the Maison des Illustres.

In 1624, Maximilian of Béthune, duke of Sully, became seigneur de Nogent. Before he dies, he wishes to be buried in the chapel of the Hotel-Dieu. Protestant, there was no access to his request. His grave therefore took place in the rotunda near the church. It was Alois Boudin who executed the statue the representative.

Only this house remains the facade you can see in the courtyard of the old library. Originally located at 7, on rue Flodoard, this building belonged to Louise de Savoie, mother of François I, and the lady of Epernay who loved the city and the Champagne vineyards. It was built in 1520 and burned down in 1544.

At the beginning of the Second Empire, Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) settled in the home of his father, the former controller of contributions. The man of letters, including Captain Smashes, lives there with his daughter Judith, the fruit of his love with the Italian singer Ernesta Grisi. This small house is today the chaplaincy of the young people of Montrouge Church. She receives Catholic university students from the city.

There was a plaque on the occasion of the 500 th anniversary of the death of François II, who died in this house. With Charles VIII, he signed the peace treaty between Brittany and France in 1488. In the church, just next door, stalls, classified in historical monuments, would come from Buzay abbey, located on the other bank of the Loire.

This building is the only testimony that we have left these painted houses of Provence which once adorned the Old Town. Bas-reliefs and frescoes carried out in 1584 in soft tones adorn the facade and trace the life and misfortunes of our unhappy ancestors.

He is across the street, opposite the church. This local Joan of Arc became not only a nice heroine, but the patron of the city of Nice. In 1743, a powerful Turkish fleet came to besieged Nice. The city, then well protected behind its ramparts, was january by the artillery. The attackers attacked the castle. While they were grimpaient on their ladders at the storming of the high walls, a young lavandière named Catherine Nissart, who was said to be an amiable physics, armed only of his beater, struck the first of the Turks, took him to the étendard and rushed him to the bottom of the wall, thereby galvanizing the resistance of the castle. Today it symbolizes the spirit of resistance of the International, their taste of independence.

Coincy is a small village, in the image of its illustrious characters. For example, Gauthier de Coincy, born in Coincy in 1178, is nothing but one of the greatest French medieval poets. Excuse the little. He is told that he is the inventor in poetry of the octosyllabe and the Précurseur precursor. With the stage adaptation of his work "Les Miracles de Notre Dame" he is also one of the western theatre inventors. Another character, other destiny, that of François Augustin Ferdinant Tagliabue, born in 1822 here. After becoming a priest in 1848, he was sent to the mission of evangelization in Mongolia and then to China and became, as a result of his action, a apostolic vicar of Beijing. A funeral plaque, located in the church of the commune, recounts his life.

This house was built by the Pères fathers.

This bourgeois house belonged to the Pineau family, one of which was a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier. This was Charette's headquarters during the wars of Vendée in 1793. Consisting of 2 perpendicular wings, this building was divided into 2 houses. The door to the motto «Deus Spes Nostra» gave access to a stone staircase. The position of the house allowed the leak by the fields. A son Pineau was deputy of Charette (defence of Noirmoutier). Ms Francheteau, granddaughter of Ms Pineau, wrote in 1857: " Charette had arrived a few days after the insurgency. He established his headquarters in his grandmother's house, he played with the children and raised them in his arms to pick cherries… '»»»»