#evreux...

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En passant

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[taylor-titmouse]

So how come Queen Evereux wasn't at her own daughter's wedding?

she was i just didn't make a thing of her presence because i hadn't decided how to handle her as a character yet

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Lord Armand with Evreux @sivar-ffxiv-hub

[sabinerondissime]

Dans la cathédrale d'Evreux, j'ai vu ce petit bonhomme sculpté sur l'accoudoir d'un banc. Je ne sais pas comment on appelle cela mais il a bien une tête de pénitent !

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architecture sketches

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Champs-Elysées Avenue in Paris

French vintage postcard, mailed to Evreux

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[joanofnavarre]

On this day in History, 10 June 1432, Jeanne d'Évreux, daughter of Navarre, died at Havering-atte-Bower. She was formerly Duchess of Brittany by her first marriage, and Queen of Enfland by her second marriage, which was a love union. Despite being imprisoned for some years by her stepson, Henry V, Joan (as she was better known by her English subjects) still received visits from her stepchildren such as Humphrey of Gloucester and John of Bedford, but more often her Beaufort in-laws like Cardinal Beaufort. She was buried next to Henry.

[moramaisis]

In 1632, about fifteen kilometres to the south of Caen, France, in the Forest of Cinglais, an animal carried out a reign of terror. Those who survived its attacks described it as a kind of huge mastiff of extraordinary agility and speed. Two historical documents mention the mysterious beast: the “Gazette de France” of March 19th 1632 and the edition of June 17th 1633. The edition of 1632 announces that the predator has already devoured around fifteen people in a month.

Forest rangers have shot at it with their muskets but are unable to cause any injury. The priests are trying to mobilize the inhabitants of the neighbouring parishes but the population is so traumatised that very few volunteers dare to take part in the hunts. The hunters themselves do not want to venture into the woods unless they are in a large group. The 1633 edition of the newspaper announces the killing of an animal at the end of a massive hunt lasting three days, organised by the Count de la Suze, with the participation of between 5,000-6,000 hunters and beaters. The Beast of Cinglais looks like a kind of wolf, but is longer, and more red in colour with a more pointed tail and a wider rump than an ordinary wolf. At least thirty people have now been killed.

Another curious fact is that there were a series of attacks only fifteen years later in the Forest of Fontainebleau. "In 1679, woodcutters were killed and eaten in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Records in the parish of Bois-le-Roi mention several cases of attacks." Fairly close to both Caen and Fontainebleau is the beautiful cathedral city of Chartres. The “Institut Virtuel de Cryptozoologie” reports how:

“At Chartres, in 1581, a young boy was buried at Ver-les-Chartres, killed by a “wild beast”, “une beste sauvage” whose identity we are not at all sure of.”

A website which specialises in the ghostly aspects of the beautiful Forest of Fontainebleau also carries a few tales of ancient beasts thought to live there:

“There used to exist around the beginning of the sixteenth century a fabulous animal that spread terror in the Forest of Fontainebleau and its surroundings. All indications are that it was a wolf, but some cried “Werewolf”, or tried to blame a magician who was said to be an expert in the art of shape shifting.”

“And then, around 1660, long before the famous Beast of Gévaudan, there was already talk around this area of the Bête du Gâtinais, the Beast of Gâtinais, a frightful creature which looked like a monstrous wolf. His greatly exaggerated exploits, murdering children and young girls, used to feed people’s fears. Such stories caused many sleepless nights. It was even said that the Beast used to cross the River Seine to come and steal little children and animals on the far side.”

Sources: https://johnknifton.com/tag/the-beast-of-gatinais/ https://cryptozoo.pagesperso-orange.fr/dossiers/devorant.htm

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Promenade matinale

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Evreux and his Viscount ~ @thedarknesssings

[drone-malin]

Découvrez les anciennes usines désaffectées d’Evreux Navarre dans l’Eure en Normandie, volez en intérieur et en extérieur des bâtiments abandonnés de cet ancien site industriel. L’histoire des usines de Navarre débute en 1834, premier site industriel d’Evreux à leur création, c'était une usine de fabrication de zinc et un moulin à papier, puis une quincaillerie, en 1843, débute la production d'épingles, puis en 1860 celle de dés à coudre. À l'aube du XIXe siècle, les usines se convertissent dans la métallurgie avec la création d'une fonderie de laiton et la transformation du cuivre. Vidéo aérienne réalisée en drone Mavic et drone FPV par télépilote professionnel sur Evreux avec toutes les autorisations nécessaires, plus d’infos sur notre site : https://www.drone-malin.com/pages/qui-sommes-nous/les-tele-pilotes/drone-eure.html

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Armand with Evreux @sivar-ffxiv-hub

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Evreux, Normandie. Les jardins du musée d'Art, Histoire et Archéologie.

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