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Tag Archives: Angers
Sketches of the chateaux, churches and street scenes along the Loire, c1910
The images below, mostly vignettes based on paintings done during research for the book, come from the book The Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Valley. This guide to the region is Francis Miltoun and was published … Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Amboise, Angers, architecture, Azay-le-Rideau, Chambord, Chavigny, Chenonceau, Chinon, Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, Fontevrault, Langeais, Langeais, Loches, Luynes, Maps, Montrichard, Plessis-les-Tours, Saumur, Tours, Ussé, Valençay
Tagged Amboise, Angers, Azay-le-Rideau, Beaugency, Blois, Chambord, Chenonceau, Cheverny, Chinon, Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, Cocne, Fontevrault, French architecture, Langeais, Loches, Loire, Loire Valley, Loire Valley History, Luynes, Montrichard, Plessis-les-Tours, Samour, Touraine, Touraine History, Touraine map, Tours, Ussé, Valancey
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Werewolves in the Touraine ~ the case of Jacques Roulet
I’ve had a lot of hits on my recent Little Red Riding Hood blog so here’s more on the belief in and persecution of men thought to be werewolves in 16th Century France. Fear of werewolves was very real in … Continue reading
Little Red Riding Hood ~ the French version ~ read if you dare!
In 1598 a man named Jacques Raollet was tried as a werewolf in Angers, Touraine. In the 15th to 17th centuries there were numerous werewolf trials in France ~ it was the masculine counterpart to the witch hysteria of the … Continue reading
Posted in Off the wall historical stuff
Tagged Angers, bzou, Little Red Riding Hood, Loire Valley, Loire Valley History, pagan, paganism, Touraine, werewolves
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