lundi 21 juillet 2014

Middle Ages: The guedelon website, this is the beginning of life in prison

Baked sourdough bread in the oven and the wall paintings that adorn the walls: life in prison organized guedelon (Ion), sixteen years after the start of construction of the castle in the thirteenth century.

Head of the Pharaonic adventure was tucked away sprouted 1997 Michel Guyot, the owner of the castle of Saint-Fargeau (ions), the pink in his jacket brick of the old medieval city walls, about ten miles. A year later it was decided to start the beginning of the construction of the castle in the Middle Ages, collaboration techniques guedelon Maryline Martin, director of the website.

The guedelon stove, the fire crackles and cook Francoise de Mont Mollin and "natural" - his assistant chef - preparing arboulastre cake mostly medieval herbs.

"There may be no income at the time that only the monks wrote," says Ms. de Mont Mollin, 66, her long purple dress, her hair covered by a white cap.

Thanks to "the thirteenth century, the peasants," where "chickens, pigs, sheep," bequeathed in abundance, the architect has concluded that people eat "meaty".

"That's not true, in the Middle Ages, in the fourteenth century, dying of hunger," he recalls.

"I'm from the thirteenth cooking ingredients XIII, XIII seems cookware and lighting; tell if this is just the taste, I do not know," says nuances.

Kitchen corner, Max, baker or "talemelier" working water mill provided flour for two months guedelon, built in the twelfth century, remains have been found in a forest in the heart of the Jura.

"It is true that medieval bread, there must be something in the sand," says 68-year fun, "and many men died of blood poisoning from an abscess caused."

At the house the walls of the room with a stylized yellow ocher and orange tones are decorated under the body of the plant.

- "Improvement" -

Artist, Valerie, 45, was inspired by the frescoes of the twelfth century, the Church of Moutiers 4 miles from guedelon.

Facade, furniture, woodwork, "everything painted at the time, it was very colorful, very bright colors, very long time, but not into the idea of painting as at this time, because it may be a little too far to us in this time, "said a former ceramics decorator.

From the outside the building, and two of the six towers of the castle, the tower of the chapel took shape. Stonemasons enabled Maurer, design elements towers by the "cage", the ancestors of the crane.

"This place is always a little less" heavy stone ", decoration phase of the attack," greets Maryline Martin.

As an outdoor laboratory, training center, where 70 employees and twenty volunteer work attracts 300,000 visitors a year, so the tickets most of the work to be financed.

The artisans, blacksmiths, rope, basket makers, wear the clothes of the reign of St. Louis, in addition to safety shoes, the law requires a twenty-first century.

From the beginning of each step of the Scientific Committee guedelon place.

For the layout of the rooms of the castle, such as wall paintings, Mrs. Martin "is not 100% sure of (the) proposals." "If we want rebadigeonnera our customers," he says.

His "castle was, and in some parts of Versailles, which was not completed, press the talk."

And it may take "at least another five years," he said.

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