Text For Season Greetings

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.