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Gentil Poppy? A head full well

Loire Valley - June 2009
Photos: Renaud Bouret

"There are places where it is so common that by far the wheat appear to be covered with a carpet scarlet shine that 'they think, when the sun is shining, can not be described. When the poppy

shows itself in small quantities in the fields, it is not harmful, because he is dried before the harvest, and its seed is never in wheat was winnowed and screened, but when inside with plenty quoted above, necessarily preclude the growth of wheat and other cereals. " (Abbe Francois Rozier, New complete course of theoretical and practical agriculture, Deterville Publisher, Paris, 1809)

What some consider a weed can become an exotic plant or object for poetic others.

In Carthage, we folded the petals of the poppy down and were tied with a piece of stem, to form the silhouette of a ballerina tutu in red. Poppies became then Misses .

Poppy buttons were also used to a board game popular until the invention of misguided Game Boy . The game was to guess the color of the petals enclosed in the bud. The referee of the game featured a button poppy assistance and asked the ritual question: "Rooster, Poulou, chicken? . When players had indicated their choice, the arbitrator was tearing the sheath of the button and the petals were spread as if by magic, sometimes red (bantam), sometimes pink (Poulou) and sometimes white (chicken).

It was asked many questions about the nature of the famous

Poulou , whose sound is accorded so well with the symbolism of color. Language of scholarly research have allowed us to trace the etymology of the word, the result of slippage of the tonic accent (not uncommon in some phrases of spoken French at Carthage). The original expression, which is lost in the mists of time, was in reality: "Rooster, hen or chicken? .

The poppy thrives in plowed fields, like what this protégé of homo poeticus

would not be much without the work of homo

agricolus (as they say in latin cooking).

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Unlike prejudice inspired by Montaigne and emptied of its original meaning, a head full well is often the foundation of a well-made head. At best, the brainwashing is a major asset to the development of intelligence and intellectual curiosity, at worst it's harmless. Sum that I Voye ung abyss of science: doresnavant as you become man and make you great. (Rabelais in Pantagruel , Chapter 8)

"fowls, coils, plowing, grazing, Alea is jacta, Oceano nox, chernozem, permafrost, Baudricourt, Vaucouleurs, calcite, gneiss, Gogol, Pushkin, shady, sunny side, Joachim du Bellay, Thales of Miletus, hemlock, Pigwidgeon, Baucis, Philemon, rare gases, Gaspard, phoneme, morpheme, Chimene, Monima, act of contrition, an act of charity, the leaves are always green mistletoe, mistletoe fruits are not edible ... "The list of all such invitations school journey and discovery is endless.

If the Rabelais School made us discover the region

Lerné

Ronsard and the Loire Valley is our passion for early stamps that led us to Azay-le-Rideau to Sully-sur-Loire, to Amboise. Because stamp collecting is also a mild brainwashing, that burns in the memories of children from a myriad of images, color shades, place names and characters, words and letters strange. Once grown, you can then browse the world always feel on familiar ground, while marveling from the dream to reality.

These stamps, engraved in intaglio, used only two or three colors, chosen with skill.

The picture is often more successful than the model. Even the side facing north can receive sunlight.

If the images seem more beautiful than nature, they depict reality as seen, not as we photograph.

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The War Picrochole

Lerné and its surroundings - June 25, 2009

Photos: Renaud Bouret

Blessed are the teachers of the school, which filled our darlings of words so strange and familiar today: Pathelin Panurge, Cassandra, reading, Ponsonnière, Roche-Clermault ...

A tiny dot on the map, away from the world and far from glorious castles and abbeys noble: Lerner . Is not this the land of famous bakers, the starting point of Picrochole war? Doing visit.

First, the austere vineyards of Saumur give way to the gold fields of wheat. Who knows if they will not eat the focaccia today?

Village of Lerné really exists. But the bakers is napping and the streets are deserted. In the absence of inhabitants, the shadow of Rabelais hangs over the country.

Below, Seuilly villages, home of the brother of John Entommeures, and Roche Clermault, with its vineyards and orchards, with its shepherds and sharecroppers feasting on focaccia with Pineau and muscadeaux. That without Largarde and Michard, we would be photographing the manor of Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise or rent a folding chair in front of the Castle of Chambord, electric version.