Around the lake of Pierrefonds

[bixaorellana]

Here is a little "post card" collection remembering a lovely afternoon in the small village below the castle of Pierrefonds. We had a pleasant lunch and a walk around the five hectare lake in the middle of town, with a peek into a chapel. It was a perfect day of simply enjoying the countryside.

[bixaorellana]

Some kind of wild clematis ~





















The old town laundry basin, with clematis and geraniums ~





Travelers' rest ~

[mossie]

Quite a tour round a pretty place. Any chance the castle builders had been to Disneyland for ideas.

[bixaorellana]

Prithee, kind sir ~ dost thou not thinkest it might have been the other way around?

Mossie, have you seen Kerouac's very complete and beautiful report on Pierrefonds? Mich has also reported on it, as have I within another thread. This one is just a way for me to use up some dessert-y pictures I took that day, but for the full meal, go here: anyportinastorm.proboards.com/thread/5491/pierrefonds-merlin?page=1

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After about 5 visits to Pierrefonds, I feel that I have not yet completely absorbed the experience. I think I am going to have to spend a night there sooner or later. Every time I go there, I have a primary impression of "okay, I've seen the place, that's enough" but it is quickly overlaid by a desire to explore more, since every visit has been extremely brief and superficial.

[htmb]

I like little reports like this.
Your photos of the inside of the chapel are especially well done, Bixa.
Was the church we saw in Pierrefonds open? Looking at your photo now, I would have liked to have checked it out.
The rest on the bench in front of the church was a nice respite.

Kerouac, it appeared there was a lot to see in the area. The bike trails through the forest intrigued me, too.

[bixaorellana]

Htmb, I was thinking that the parts with the tall windows and the organ were Saint-Sulpice and that the last, short window was the little chapel, but just looked it up online & my pictures are only from the chapel, as you correctly remembered. I will change the OP to reflect that -- thanks! Also, looking it up made me really want to go back. The church dates from 1060, with parts of that construction still remaining.

As you know, there wasn't time to go to the WWI site near the area, yet something else worth seeing.

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The little chapel, sans organ, is the one in Saint Jean-des-Bois next to Pierrefonds. The stained glass window with the sun streaming through was the even tinier chapel next to it.

[bixaorellana]

Ah ~ thanks, Kerouac! I knew I had a memory of going into two churches, but it wasn't until I check S-S online that I realized it was far too big for what we saw.

I took pictures of those darling cottages and some of the plants we saw after the chapels, but they all came out either too glary &/or too boring.