Voici un premier échantillon des notes prises durant la 1ère visite de Saumur par Mme Overlaet. Elles sont sans aucun doute incomplètes, donc n'hésitez pas à rajouter vos informations par commentaires ! Je les incluerais ensuite dans l'ensemble des notes. Merci.
Ile d’offard :
- 6 bridges + 5 islands
- Old axes don’t exist anymore/ new road in 18th c.
- Big bridge built in 1754
- “Pont des cadets “: cause fight German/French in 1940
- Manoir : 15th c. Duchesse d’Anjou (county) who is Yolande d’Aragon and queen of Sicily. The manoir was surrounded by water.
- 16th house: gable white limestone (tuffaud) + black slate on the roof and not on the wall
Castle: 14th/ built on a cliff of limestone/ accident in 2001/ restored 2 years ago/moat= full of sand
...
Saint Nicolas church: Saint of barges/ suburb of Saumur
...
Quai: 19th / before it was only sand/ ask by M. Cigogne =mayor
From 18-19th the other bank of the Loire was developed
River can goes high in Winter/ flood each year
City develops thanks to the river: trade of white stone to Westminster Palace + 11&12th : wine with England
...
City center : old part reorganize in the 19th
1860: Jolie le Terme (his master= Violet le Duc): built theater(neo-classical building) it was a way to entertaining people even poor class/ and a way to be see for upper class
...
Town hall : was “house of city council”(maison des échevins)
1508 use as a defensive of rich part of the city
Skull(=crane) at the top of the bell
Cut in 3 parts
Chambre de haut retrait dans la tour(where they asked audience to the Lord cause more private & confortable)/ brick used
...
Protestant academy : 1550
Henry de Navarre (protestant) ; Henri the 3 retreat in Blois ; scared to lose his town asked help to Saumur ; city choosen as protestant place/ bridge on the Loire/ Henry the Guise was murdered and 6 month before it was Henry the 3
- Only 8 academy in France
- 400 students in Saumur for 100000 inhabitant
- Louis Cappel translate the bible in French(protestant one)
- 7 printers in Saumur
- Revocation de l’édit de Nantes(professors left)
- Still today a strong protestant place/ bigger than Angers
Balzac: Eugénie Grandet ( à Saumur)
Doorknocker : heurtoir
...
Rue Bizard : 17th (1608) : abbess of Fontevraud/ both community men & woman directed by her/ i twas a rich abbay/ everybody from the countryside came to pay taxes
...
Marc Duncan : doctor Scottish/ teacher of the academy/ lived with William Pen and moved to America to found Pensylvania
Saint Pierre : half timbered houses from the 15&16th
