The belfry exhibition at Concarneau’s Maison du Patrimoine explores the history of the Ville-Close landmark. It explains the architecture, restoration plans and civic role of the tower, while guided visits and children’s workshops open the subject to different publics. The belfry becomes a way to read Concarneau through fortified-town memory, public architecture and heritage transmission.
Tag: local-history
Matinale Gourmande in Beaune: Breakfast Delights
Matinale Gourmande brings Audrey Chalmers, known as The Food Witch, together with a mediator from the Hôtel-Dieu. Small dishes are served at a shared table as the meal unfolds through stories from the hospital’s past. The collaboration gives the Beaune gathering two distinct voices: one preparing the food and the other interpreting the hospital’s history.
Lejay Lagoute: Crème de Cassis in Dijon
Maison Lejay Lagoute opens the production site where its Crème de Cassis de Dijon is made. The guided visit explains how the blackcurrant liqueur is produced and traces the history of the house’s recipe, which has remained unchanged since its creation. The story centres on a product that became closely identified with Dijon and its makers.
Salins Fire of 1825: A Historical Exhibition
Grande Saline revisits the fire that transformed Salins-les-Bains through archives, engravings, melted objects and firefighting equipment. The exhibition follows the blaze, relief effort and rebuilding rules that changed the town’s streets and houses. A hand pump from the Jura firefighters’ museum and reproductions of works by Ingres and Cicéri illustrate the response to the disaster and efforts to fund reconstruction.
Hôtel-Dieu in Beaune: Hospital History Walk
This guided walk follows the founders and benefactors of the Hospices Civils de Beaune through the city’s history of care. The route links the medieval Hôtel-Dieu with the former orphanage at the Hospice de la Charité, passing the ramparts and bastion. A visit to the hospice’s small museum completes an itinerary tracing the relationship between hospitals, charity and the people who supported them.
Sensory Workshop at Hôtel-Dieu in Beaune: Unique Experience
At the Hôtel-Dieu – Hospices de Beaune, the MOUVEMENT(S) Atelier Gustatif links the history of hospital meals with olfactory exercises. The sensory tour moves through the medicinal garden, traditional kitchen and apothecary. Marie-France Bravard, creator of Ateliers Vins & Parfums, leads the visit with a Hôtel-Dieu mediator.
Hôtel-Dieu Culinary Workshop in Beaune: A Tasty Journey
This Hôtel-Dieu workshop examines culinary heritage through the kitchen, apothecary and herb garden. Visitors follow the history of hospital meals through tastings, olfactory exercises and commentary. Marie-France Bravard, creator of Ateliers Vins & Parfums, leads the sensory exploration with a mediator from the Hôtel-Dieu.
Mâcon Insolite: Discover Hidden Treasures
Mâcon Insolite follows a guide through traboules and interior courtyards, old houses and hôtels particuliers. The tour draws out the stories of these less visible parts of the city. Mâcon’s wider architectural heritage includes the carved façade of the Maison de bois and the illusionistic effects of trompe-l’œil paintings.
Sand Flaubert Conference in Saint-Palais: Literary Dialogue
Sand Flaubert, une amitié féconde enters the private and intellectual dialogue between two major writers through a lecture-reading by Georges Buisson. Their letters carry literary debate, personal confidences and sincere tenderness, revealing a relationship sustained despite markedly different temperaments. Sand, the celebrated writer rooted at Nohant, and Flaubert, associated with Croisset, tested ideas against one another while maintaining a deep mutual regard. Buisson’s adapted presentation allows the correspondence to speak with dramatic immediacy without losing its historical texture. In Saint-Palais, the reading connects this wide literary exchange to Berry and to Sand’s lived geography. What emerges is not a sequence of biographical facts but a friendship built in language, where criticism, humour and care illuminate how two writers thought about art, work and one another.
George Sand Exhibition in Lignières: A Local Tribute
Local artists, residents and associations contribute objects, paintings and photographs to this George Sand exhibition in Lignières. Documents and loans from the community place the writer alongside Berry’s everyday heritage. The display brings together artistic responses and historical material from the territory associated with her rural novels.