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| Are knights allowed to smile? |
Visited Langeais, ye olde medieval castle par excellence.
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| L'Abbaye de Fountevraud |
Also visited the Abbaye de Fontevraud, which really caught my imagination. It was built in the early 12th century and controlled many other abbeys in Europe. Fontevraud was also a prison from the time of Napoleon until the 60s.
The roof of the kitchen is magnificent. Nuns who went crazy were locked in the dungeon. Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lion-Hearted are buried in the church.
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| Dungeons are full of shadows. |
I thought about how many thousands of lives have overlapped there, how many hands and feet and breathes preceded mine.
I stole lavender from the little garden.
Swimming the sidestroke through history,
Maria
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