#saintonge

[retrogeographie]

Royan, la piscine de Foncillon.

[postcard-from-the-past]

La Palmyre lighthouse in the Saintonge region of western France

French vintage postcard

[grandboute]

Art roman en Charente-Maritime - Saint-Symphorien

[francepittoresque]

LÉGENDE | Le souvenir des fées en Angoumois et en Saintonge ➽ https://j.mp/2K4AKIV Les Fées ! Lorsqu’on prononce ces mots merveilleux devant les petits enfants, ils évoquent les belles dames des contes. Tour d’horizon de celles, nombreuses et insaisissables, qui hantèrent l’Angoumois et la Saintonge...

[beyond-crusading]

So it's pretty common in France to hate Parisians. You'll be glad to learn that this is a time honored tradition !

"Thus the name of Parisians became held in such hatred and horror for all these people that to say you were one of them was enough to get you knocked out.

Since the start of this revolt, they killed ten or twelve, and notably in St. Savinien, they exerted such a horrible rage against one of those tax collectors born in Paris, that he was cut into small pieces, and every one of them took a piece to nail it to the door of his house, where you can still see them."

From a testimony about the revolt of the Croquants in Saintonge (1636). The insurgents revolted against the increasing taxes imposed by the central government, taxes which were often collected by Parisians clerks.

[acrossthewavesoftime]

Château de Saint Jean d'Angle, Charente-Maritime, France, c. 2015.

[gothic-architecture]

Basilique Saint-Eutrope, Saintes, France

(M.Strīķis)

[retrogeographie]

Royan, le front de mer.