{"id":1418,"date":"2011-06-04T00:09:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T07:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2011-06-04T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T07:09:58","slug":"le-sketch-du-jour-chateau-de-chenonceu-june-20-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/2011\/06\/le-sketch-du-jour-chateau-de-chenonceu-june-20-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"le sketch du jour: Ch\u00e2teau de Chenonceu. June 20, 1980."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chenonceau. Mistress booted and the party begins.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ll start here which is where I began in my sketchbook.<\/p>\n

Upon the death of Fran\u00e7ois I in 1547, Henry II offered the ch\u00e5teau as a gift to his mistress Diane de Poitiers. She constructed the arched bridge, connecting the ch\u00e5teau to the opposite bank. The view of the bridge is the most famous and worth looking up.<\/p>\n

These are my notes:<\/p>\n

“Mistress of Henry II [Diane de Poitiers] lived with Catherine de Medici and Henry II in ch\u00e5teau. She was thrown out at [the] death of her husband. \u00a0She added on to Chenonceau (lived there w\/ son) and they had wild parties there. Catherine was very masculine & domineering, her son was homosexual. Parties were wild orgies with topless women in boats, etc.”<\/p>\n

Garden laid out geometrically. (typically French-nature conquered by reason & man).<\/p>\n

“Va faire cuire on \u0153uf.”= up yours<\/p>\n

We picniced again for lunch and headed to Loches. \u00a0There was a chateau there, but we didn’t go in as a group and I just sketched. \u00a0Two little girls came up to me later and (on the street) asked if they could see my drawing. \u00a0They giggled alot (they were French-about high school age) and asked me lots of questions. \u00a0They were really cute. “<\/p>\n

I don’t know how the French profanity happened to slip into the notes.<\/p>\n

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I’ll start here which is where I began in my sketchbook. Upon the death of Fran\u00e7ois I in 1547, Henry II offered the ch\u00e5teau as a gift to his mistress Diane de Poitiers. She constructed the arched bridge, connecting the ch\u00e5teau to the opposite bank. The view of the bridge is the most famous and… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,262,233],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}