This
room often felt like my home away from home. It is the main reading room
of the departmental archives of the Côte d'Or in Dijon. The building
was constructed in the mid fifteenth-century by an advisor to the Duke
Of Burgundy. It has served as the city hall, the city archives, and (now)
the departmental archives. Mozart gave a concert in this room in July
1776.
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I took the following photographs in late May 2001 of Roussillon, a village in the Luberon region of Provence.
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Quite a drop, perhaps 20 stories? Roussillon is
now one of France's 140 "plus beaux villages."
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The red soil is not clay, but ochre, a mineral
used primarily as a dye. This photograph looks north onto the valley
below and the Luberon in the distance.
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One of the cliffs in the previous image from afar.
Walking paths now wind their way through ochre deposits and a former
mine
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Looking east onto orchards and olive groves along
the main road to Roussillon
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Note how precariously this village is perched!
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Church altar
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The village church was built in early 12th century
on the ruins of earlier one.
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St. Michael (St. Michel), the village patron saint.
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Village clocktower, built over pedestrian walkway. Typical of Provence. |
Seventeenth-century church carving by a local
sculptor.
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Village entrance.
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Like so many Provencal villages, Roussillon consists
of several concentric circles around the hilltops.
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One of the more quiet places that day
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"Main Street"
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A not uncommon sight in modern France.
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