SOUTHFRANCE.COM PHOTOS 1997
Giles Mitchell / Giles Denmark
St. Chinian, Herault
South France Guide Photo of the Week - April 15 1997
St. Chinian, Herault
This busy town, has a wonderful Sunday market, with everything from clothes
to meats and fruit. Its a place to meet, and sit and chat at the local café.
The town dates back to 825 when a monastery was founded by Saint Anian, possibly
on the site of what today is the Mairie. The monastery prospered and with it
the village that had grown up around. It survived the Albigensian Crusades
relatively unscathed and emerged
in the 17th and 18th centuries as a centre for the manufacture of high quality
cloth. During the French revolution the abbey was dissolved and its buildings
put to new uses. The former abbey church is now the village hall and hosts
everything from exhibitions to village dances.
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Napolean, Les Invalides, Paris
South France Photo of the Week - April 23 1997
Napolean, Les Invalides, Paris
One can imagine in the court that this man overlooks filled with soldiers. Now
it is pleasant walking through on the way from the Rodin Museum towards the
river Seine. One walks past innumerable memorials to battles fought in the upper "cloister",
and one can snatch this view of the great man.
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