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In the foreground is the Tour Pey-Berland, the belltower of the Cathédrale Saint-André, in Bordeaux. The church was consecrated in 1096. Here in 1137, 13-year-old local girl Eleanor of Aquitaine married the future Louis VII. Most of the current structure was built in the 14th and 15th centuries, and as you can see from the scaffolding at right, upkeep is ongoing almost 1,000 years later. [To see more churches from around the world, go here.] |
Sunday, December 4, 2016
inSPIREd Sunday
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Forty six years after her first marriage she could still belt out a damn good monologue. I was thinking about giving The Lion in Winter another viewing. A movie worth watching. A movie with a certain degree of origins in the site of this Bordeaux Cathedral.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother's friend, Amy Kelly, wrote a major biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and my mother's name was Eleanor. Interesting bit of history here in your photo.
ReplyDeleteI need to read more about Eleanor d'Aquitaine.... She was quite a gal.
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