November 19, 2013
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The CASTLE OF RAMBURES / From the SEQUOIA of Rambures(France) to the CHEROKEES in America
Le château de Rambures
Rambure castleNovember 13 and see UP DATE of November 19 below
English version below the pictures
Le 26 Octobre dernier nous sommes allés avec nos petits-enfants Manon et Antoine visiter le château de Rambures à 50 km d'Amiens, une forteresse médiévale du XVème siècle, jamais vendue, jamais envahie. et appartenant à la même famille depuis lors. Les seigneurs de Rambures (connus depuis le XIe siècle) furent de vaillants chevaliers très dévoués aux rois de France. Les temps ont changé depuis la Révolution, mais la même famille est restée sur le territoire de Rambures (en ligne directe puis par mariage)
Des murs épais en briques des tours rondes ont été en mesure de résister à l'artillerie de cette époque. Le château a toujours ses meubles et est très intéressant à visiter.
La deuxième photo montre Antoine qui essaie de porter une armure.Le château de Rambures Rambures castle
Last October 26 we went with our grandchildren Manon and Antoine to visit the castle of Rambures far of 34 miles only from Amiens, a medieval fortress from the XV th century , never sold , never invaded. and owned by the same family since then. The lords of Rambures( known since the XIth century) were valiant knights very devoted to the kings of France .Times have changed since the Revolution but the same family is remained on the territory of Rambures ( direct line then per marriage)
Thick walls made of bricks of the round towers were able to resist to the artillery of this time. The castle always has furnitures and is very interesting to visit .
The second picture shows Antoine who is trying to wear an armor
Le château est entouré d'un grand parc avec de nombreux arbres de diverses espèces. Voici un séquoia qui a deux cents ans pour le moins. Il est amusant de voir Antoine si petit à ses côtés. Il fait penser à Don Quichotte combattant les moulins à vent en Espagne !
Il ya aussi un magnifique jardin de roses, mais nous étions à la fin d’Octobre et aussi un peu fatigués après avoir monté et descendu les escaliers des tours. Nous devrons revenir en Juillet.Rambures est seulement à 55 km d'Amiens. L'histoire est partout à Amiens et environs. Ici comme ailleurs.
Le sequoia de Rambures The sequoia in the park of the castle
Antoine au combat avec le séquoia . Antoine fighting the sequoia.
The castle is surrounded by a large park wih numerous trees of various species . Here is a sequoia which is two hundred years old for the least . It is funny to see tiny Antoine at its side . he looks like the knight Don Quixote fighting the windmills in Spain !
There is also a wonderful garden of roses but we were in late October and a bit tired after up and down the stair cases of the towers. We have to return in July.
Rambures is only to 34 miles from Amiens . The history is everywhere in Amiens and around. Here like elsewhere
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UP DATED November 19
Du séquoia de Rambures ( France ) aux Indiens Cherokee en Amérique
From the sequoia of Rambures (France) to the Cherokees in America.English version below the picture
Les commentaires que j’ ai reçus à propos du séquoia de Rambures m’ont incité à en avoir plus sur cet arbre qui a une biologie très particulère Le nom de Séquoia vient d’un Indien, inventeur du syllabaire Cherokee entre 1810 et 1820. Il donna son propre nom, Sequoyah à cet arbre puissant poussant spontanément sur les pentes de la Sierre Nevada en Californie.
Ainsi le château de Rambures et son séquoia m’ont conduit vers les tribus ou nations amérindiennes. Ce qui est surprenant est qu’à mes débuts sur xanga en 2001, j’ eus un lectrice qui était une Amerindienne Navajo appelée Lorraine Nakai. Elle écrivait des entrées intéressantes racontant sa vie avec son jeune fils au fond d’un canyon( je ne me souviens plus de l’ Etat ). Je me souviens par exemple de la façon dont elle décrivait la vie latente des mares desséchées du fond du Canyon. Quand la pluie arrivaient les mares se remplissaient soudainement de formes vivantes qui étaient à l’ état de vie latente au fond boueux et sec de la mare. Lorraine était une scientifique et aussi un ardent défenseur de la culture navajo.
En cherchant à propos de cela j’ ai ainsi découvert que les messages de l’ armée américaine pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale étaient écrits en Navajo et les Japonais aussi bien que les Allemands n’ont jamais réussi a percer le secret et pouvaient pas déchiffrer les messages . ce langage ne leur étaient pas accessible.
Et en effet le séquoia géant de Rambures provient d’une graine ramenée d’Amérique par un lointain ancêtre
Nous voyons l’ intérêt de Xanga comme un moyen d’avancer en biologie , géographie , histoire et anthropologie en explorant de nouveaux horizons .Rambures (Somme, France ) : sequoia
The comments that I have received about the sequoia of Rambures incited me to know more about this tree which has a very special biology .The name of Sequoia comes from the Indian inventor of the Cherokee sillabary between 1810 and 1820. He gave his own name Sequohya to the powerful tree, growing spontaneously on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California.
So the castle of Rambures and its sequoia led me to the Native American tribes or nations. What is surprising is at my beginning of xanga in 2001 I got a reader who was a Navajo woman Lorraine Nakai . She wrote interesting posts about her life with her young son in a canyon ( I do not remember the State ) . I remember how she described the latent life in the dried ponds in the bottom of the canyon . When the rain came the ponds suddenly were full of living beings who were in the wait in the dried mud . Lorraine was a scientist and was also a defender of the Navajo culture .
In searching more about this , I discovered at this time, that the messages sent to the American army during the World war II was written in Navajo language and the Japanese and the German as well , never found the secret and were unable to decipher the writing. This language was not understandable by them .
And indeed the giant sequoia of Rambures comes from a seed brought back by an ancestor from America .
We see the interest of Xanga , with it we go on in biology, geography, history towards exploring new horizons.
Comments (56)
My next project is to build a stone castle by hand. After I finish the log cabin.... Perhaps I shall practice with sand castles!
John, I keep uou informed that the walls of the Château de Rambures are at least 2,5 meters thick and only with bricks ( more resistant than stone to the artillery ) . So I wish you courage
What a beautiful castle!
These are great pictures I love the castle it looks amazing I hope someday I can travel and look at all the cool castles
Mornin Glorie...that is a beautiful castle! I wonder if it had a moat in the past? The sequoia is beautiful too, they are such majestic trees and Antoine does indeed look tiny in comparison...Isn't this an amazing world! ilym
Wonderful photos. I just finished reading a book about WW1 and the battles on French soil. Such tragic history hidden beneath such beauty.
yes , and this castle has been built at the time of one hundred years'war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years'_War
I am envious of all your lovely travels.
amazing that the castle is still in the possession of the original family! I'm sure there are many interesting stories contained in those walls!
so glad you share the history you have there. I really like it.
What a pretty castle! Amazing that it's still the same family. What a heritage that must be for them.
Wow!!! A beautiful castle and a gorgeous tree. Thanks for sharing your country with me. Hugs and smiles, Char
Amazing castle. Looks like it's been well taken care of.
What a nice estate. The tree reminds me of El Palo Alto, the redwood that symbolizes Stanford University and the city of Palo Alto.
Thanks for this comment who teaches me about El Palo Alto, this sequoia , known for long by its size and that gave its name to an important university in California.
Oh my gosh! What a beautiful place! I've never gotten to visit a castle, but would love to! I'm so glad you had that adventure with your grandchildren! Antoine is so cute!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful world with us, Michel!
HUGS!!!
I would love to visit Europe sometime and see all the historical buildings. We don't build them like that anymore, do we? Love the sequoia too. We have those in California. Awesome what man has done and what God has done!
ryc: I understand about the top ten list, my favorite songs are from my childhood also, when I was growing up we never seemed to have a radio in our car, and we traveled about a good bit, our father would have us all singing old folk songs, I doubt many people would remember the songs we sang either. Personal Memories are very special! ILYM
I love the pictures....And the Castle!! It's so beautiful....
That Sequoia Tree, reminds of this past summer/ fall....The fire, so close to Yosemite National Forest....It surrounded the park, which trees are Sequoia....
So big, and tall....Those trees make the park....I don't know if any of the fire got into the National Park or not....It was never reported one way or the other.....
Wow, what a beautiful castle! And I love that the same family has lived in that castle all these centuries.
That castle and surroundings are historic and beautiful. Wow, the family still owns it. That seems amazing in this day and age. thanks, Michel.
blessings
frank
That's a beautiful castle and must be home to many a ghost! I wonder if that tree was brought from America as a seedling? I understand that many European gardeners collected plants from around the world for the gardens of the wealthy.
You are right! The familial legend says the seeds of this sequoia has been brought from America by companions of lA fAYETTE at the XVIIIth century
That is a beautiful castle. There is something so exciting about visiting a castle, it is liking living in a fantasy world. The sequoia is a magnificant tree. We don't have any near us but I've seen them in California.
I thought castles were built up higher ground than the surroundings.
Such a beautiful castle, and it continues to have descendants from that same family live in it. Great post as always. Hope you received my email.
Michel, your photos are as wonderful as always. And your grandchildren are so adorable. Blessings to you, my friend!
Trish
The castle is stunningly beautiful! What history is therewith contained in it, too. This must have been a very special time that you had with your grandchildren.
I've always been fascinated with the magnificence of those giant sequoias. There are pictures of my family (when I was an infant or toddler) next to some sequoias in California. No matter how fantastic the man-made structures are, we can't outdo God's natural creation.
Thank you for sharing these pictures and the history, too, Michel.
Love,
Carolyn
It is so marvelous it does not look real. It seems the photos are showing up wonderfully in this new site. But then...you are a great photographer. Love to you, Janine and all the family <3
love the castle and the tree. I hope that neither the tree nor Antoine sustained any injuries (splinters from sequoias are painful.
Being in a depression in the earth, the castle seems less defensible than if it were sitting on level or higher ground. I wonder if the gentle hills around and above it were built up after it no longer had a need for a physical defense against an attacking force?
This castkle has been built during the XVth century at a time where the artillery made big progesses. I read on Wikipedia at the word fortification: " Medieval-style fortifications were largely made obsolete by the arrival of cannons on the 14th century battlefield. Fortifications in the age of black powder evolved into much lower structures with greater use of ditches and earth ramparts that would absorb and disperse the energy of cannon fire. Walls exposed to direct cannon fire were very vulnerable, so were sunk into ditches fronted by earth slopes."
Thanks Steve for your interesting observation.
I'd love to have my own castle
t is a smaller planet than we like to think and the connections between countries are tangled and delightful!
So glad you put your link in the comment you left for me. Much quicker for me to come here that way.
Prayers for Janine tomorrow. Easiest thing I ever went through, hopefully the same for her.
Happy Tuesday, Michel! I hope your week is going well!
HUGS!!!
now that is very interesting! the Cherokees founded the small town I live in, their chief was John Vann, he was a very intelligent man! It is indeed a small world. ilym
RYC my new faucet: yet, it does look like some kind of laboratory under my sink! It is, kind of, I suppose. Water being sent here and there and filtered and flushed...I had an aunt that just had a hand pump in her kitchen for water. It was a long time ago, but I still remember pumping it into a bown and dipping it out with an enameled dipper. It tasted so good and cold!
What wonderful pictures!! Thanks so much for sharing them!
when we were kids there were 8 of us kids and we held hands around the trunk of it and still couldn't touch hands.
“God Through Anne Terri With The Holy Spirit: The photography is exquisite. AMEN”
"Grâce à Dieu Anne Terri avec le Saint-Esprit: La photographie est exquise. AMEN "
Wow! That castle is incredible! Love the pics!
RYC: Tweeting. My experiment in tweeting has only yielded some advertising and two followers. I don't know why these people "followed" me. It's a little weird.
This system Twitter looks rather hermetical and I use it very little, principally to read what the new pope Francis says everyday (one short sentence) . But the main thing is to be in and not to be ignorant of the evolution of the communication and media.I have 8 followers and I know only three of them : one of my sons and two xangans(one living in Alaska and the other...in Indiana ). I do not recognize the others. But as I do not tweet,there is nothing to follow .
For the moment I have enough with Xanga which asks some creativity.
Wow, that is really interesting about the Sequoia brought back from America! I also heard about the secret code in the Indian's language. So interesting, our great big wonderful world!
that castle is amazing and i think that tree is one of the biggest i've ever seen~ very cool!
The story of the Cherokee code talkers is indeed a very interesting and intriguing one.
RYC: yes I think it is an expression of faith and very similar to Pauls'. I love the sequoias' they are so beautiful and majestic. I miss old xanga. I have a cherokee gg-grandmother...
Happy Weekend, Michel!
It's rainy and cold here!
Brrrr!!!
HUGS!!!
I am so sorry I haven't been keeping up with you as well as I want to. I don't get on the computer as much as I did. I check in on Facebook daily but never make it to Xanga anymore. I think my willpower is just gone. I don't want to do much of anything anymore. I cook for the children and my parents once a week and keep my granddaughters a lot. That's about all I do. I spent a week at Julie's house keeping their dog and cat and house watching while they went on a vacation. Husband went to visit with friends for a week in a cabin. I didn't go this time. I don't want to do anything. I will come back and check on you from time to time.
I love the pictures you post. The sequoia is very artistic.
What a beautiful castle! I can't imagine one family being able to keep it all that time. They are survivors like the sequoia.
It is amazing how good the Castle is kept. Look new.
The seigneurs used to embellish their parks with trees from all over the word. The sequoia was one of the most planted. It is a beautiful tree.
Thank for the info. I saw a film about the Indians Navajos being the code carrier and could not be caught alive.Sad.
Amitié
carlo
Ryc: Thanks for your concern about the cyclone in Sardinia. My village has not been hit by flood, but in many places they have been hit badly. I would say that some deaths are to be blamed on people.
Amitiè
Carlo
Magnifique château. Très élégant avec sa brique et ses tours resserrées. Je suis surpris qu'un sequoia pousse bien en Europe. Le climat de la côte ouest est quand même assez différent. Comme quoi il faut jamais rien prendre pour acquis.
Xanga, Fotolog, Flickr, Facebook, etc. sont de merveilleux outils d'émulation planétaire!
Ravie de t'y avoir rencontré!!!
Merci Michel de nous présenter cet imposant château et son histoire. Bel arbre aussi que ce séquoia! Il me rappelle les 2 de Soglio (Canton des Grisons) dans un jardin où Rilke rêva le temps d'un été http://www.panoramio.com/photo/36791785
Grands plaisirs aussi pour Antoine à Rambures!
Merci de tous ces partages Michel!
Amitiés d'Helvétie
Michel, you speak of Navaho Code Talkers. There are many interesting books about their contributions during the war.
Beautiful pictures.
{v} Christine
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