A Visit to Château Briance & a Mystery to Solve | Queen's Escape
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- We recently applied lights to our château facade and learned that one of our neighbors was going through the same process. We went over to Château Briance, a 900-year old mill with a chateau founded in 1435. Our friend, Bertrand, showed us some of the work he's doing on his buildings, discussed his future plans, then showed us the MYSTERY he found when excavating the original grain mill areas. We are just as stumped as him.
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Karen & Bo
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what an enchanting venue
Love your kind and patient neighbor!
A lovely visit with your gracious neighbor and his wondrous chateau and mill. Surviving thosefloods is amazing! (May there never be another!) Thank you for bringing us along.
Immediately loved that old dog. Even though he was struggling to walk, he still wanted to be in on the action ❤️. What a gracious and kind neighbour, enchanting building, loved hearing you patiently communicating to seek understanding during the tour. Scary flood history. The lights look magical. Thanks so much for taking us along.
What an interesting visit! Thank you so much for taking us along, et Bertrand, Mille Mercis!
Awesome video! Love the history. Thank you for sharing!
What a nice man. The light show we saw was so enchanting as the evening came on. Thank you so much for this wonderful memory.
Bertrand is adorable and so very patient with you guys, speaking so slowly and precisely. Learning French is hard I know, if you dont see it written down, as so many of the sounds are similar. What a nice friend to have. Try to copy his speech cadence and emphasis as well as pronunciation and accent. His French is so clear and easy to follow
That is good advice. We try to listen and mimic.
Such a beautiful place.
Bonjour Karen and Bo, Bertrand's Chateau looks massive, I am sorry to say I have no idea what the mystery hole is or why it's there. I love how you all are learning each other's language, that's the best way when you can actually be able to talk with a person. He is a very nice man and neighbor. Thank you for sharing him with us. Love from N.Y.
What a fabulous building….and great explanation from your neighbour.. as always . very interesting
What a beautiful scene with the black swans in the running water
Thank you to Bertrand for sharing this chateau and its history. The lighting is beautiful. I can't wait to find out what the mystery well is.❤
Loved this… I’m imagining all the history… wow. Loved the serene music at the end too 💚
This vlog was so interesting. What a great neighbor! I so enjoyed experiencing what it’s like to interpret a different language. Y’all did a great job!
I knew the chateaus name sounded familiar. I was listening to “The good life France” podcast yesterday and they had said about taking things from Versailles to there during WW2. It’s a beautiful place in my eyes 😍 The lighting is giving me ideas of my own 😊
I visited Bertrand last Christmas together with Bo. Very interesting project for Bertrand in his Chateau Briance with a interesting history and very challenging, I think. Love the black swans.
Next time I’ll ask him to show you the inside. It’s very interesting.
What an enchanting chateau your neighbour has, steeped in history. 1435 is incredibly old & 1050 is surreal! Bertrand has a lot of work to do but I can imagine it will be so rewarding to do, especially his museum plans. His old dog was adorable following you around! You’re lucky to have such a nice neighbour to practice speaking French with & Google translate is amazing!! His lights look great & hope an archeologist is watching this to solve his mystery. When you lit up your chateau last episode it was magical!
Thank you for that. We agree - Bertrand’s place is the real deal!
What a nice neighbor
That was very interesting. Love the history. Thank you.
I just love old buildings I'm subscribed to alot of them but only support urs because I think yall work so hard 😊
That is really nice of you. Thank you. 😊
The round stone pit would most likely been dry and had a huge stone grinder being powered by a water wheel in the nearby river and then the ground grain or flour would collect below.
I think that answer has merit. Thank you.
Stunning! So ancient! Cheers!
You have a very kind neighbor. He was so generous with his time and love for his chateau and mill. The video is wonderful. I really love the lighting of his chateau. ❤
Thank you! 😊
Enjoyed this visit
Great episode don't stop fellow Karen❤
🥰🥰🥰 Karens!
Are those black swans? So I take it that the neighbor is still renovating his Cheatue as well. I do like his yellow lights. Very interesting history.
They are black swans. He’s been renovating for 15 generations you could say.
Bordel also translates as “mess” - which was the context that Bertrand was using here.
Yep. I tried and tried to decipher that word and got it wrong. 😊
Bordel also means mess
Thank you for that… I could not find the correct spelling of the word he was saying and my translation app couldn’t pick up the right word. You’ve given me a new word. Thank you. It makes sooo much more sense.
@@queensescapeI believe linguistically the mess meaning of bordel/bordello is related to the old term of someone who was running an “untidy house”, meaning morally loose. So essentially mess became messy house which became house of ill-repute. Language is amazing with the layers of history and meaning.
I love this intro music does anyone know what it is called please?
I love the music also. And great English text to help us understand.
That took me a lot of patience to translate, so thank you a lot for that kind appreciation.
🍎 Fabulous sunny perfect day in our part of the world! Wish the same for you!
We try to be funny as my husband has a great sense of humor! They say Danish people are the happiest people in the world, but my mother in law said she's not sure of that! I think it's because they don't worry about the small stuff that usually drives people up the walls! When you showed the beautiful pebbles on the ground on the walkway of your neighbor's chateau, that's the same idea we had for you guys. When you said you're giving away the stones from the barn, we were literally saying No! No! No! You can even use the rocks for the garden by mixing them with a little bit of concrete and sticking them to the planter. We think the long planters that people use at the window would be gorgeous with medium or biggish size rocks decorated in front of it. But then again, I'm sure you'll find more rocks again somewhere on the grounds of your chateau. Your neighbor's mysterious rock pit looks very much like the ones in part of Belize and Guatemala that the Mayans use a barbecue pit. As they would bake the whole pig or deer layered with banana leaves and cook it on coal for a day or two so it absorbs the flavor of the banana leaves, which they also use for tamales to this day and other Mexican dishes. Not to mention the extra flavor it gives the Mexican dishes, especially authentic Mexican tamales and tacos. The Mayan tradition of cooking on bricks and in clay pots is what they have been using for centuries because it holds the heat longer than if they would cook on the ground, because the ground is full of moisture. Your neighbor with the chateau even meantioned there was a bakery there, so they could of used the pit as one of their largest baking ovens with 50 breads and pastries, not to mention how smart they are, because the heat from the pit, would be outside instead of inside the bakery shop. So tell him we said he can use the pit again for barbecue or baking and have one of the best tasting bread France can create! Slow cooking is a lot tastier than fast cooking, because of the secret flavors people use especially if they have a baking shop or a restaurant. Now we're going to Ross and Target and the thrift stores, what do you need? 🌴
Thank you for that long message. You’re very informative. Bertrand is very keen on figuring out what it was used for. I passed on a few ideas from our RUclips followers in these comments. That made him very delighted. I think Denmark is number two or three on the list of the happiest people in the world. There are many good things about Denmark, but the weather is really bad. We love the long summer we have in the south of France. And the cold prior is very short. Bo
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🍎 Another fabulous sunny/cloudy day!
Thanks! Tak! Merci for liking our thoughts. More to tell you guys next time if you don't mind! Now back to making English muffins and fruity English muffins, then we're going drifting about! Which as you know means getting in the car and go go go even if it's nowhere! 😊 Actually, we are going to Home Depot as well today.
Cheers to an exciting Summertime! Don't forget to cool off with the sprinkler! You might just see a rainbow in front of the sprinkler if it's a very sunny day when splashing the sprinkler in the sun! Let us know if you found the rainbow! We're not kidding! We found it many times with a sprinkler if it's a very hot day.🌴
On two other chateau vlogs, they call them water holds. Escape to the Dream episode 21 is one.
Thank you! I will be looking that up right away. 😀😀😀
It could have been a place where the grain was stored.
That pit looks as if it was part of medieval grub hut. Medieval period span from the year 500 to 1500: 1000 years. People would dig down for warmth of the ground. They would have built a roof over the pit. All I can think of right now. Perhaps invite an archeologist to take a look.
Cool answer. Thank you!
I would be picking up a lot of green chicken wire To keep them birds out
Lol
Mystery structure could be a cistern, a place to wash clothes, or a trough for animals.
That’s a new idea. Thank you.
Is this a château or a small town? Or both ? All that flooding is scary.
Just 1 chateau! Big one.
Then, Moulin Rouge means Red Mill?
Yep!
We are watching your video on a big screen TV but we are not able to read your messages at the top of the screen. Simple black subtitles along the bottom would be much easier to read. This has been an ongoing problem, but this video was especially difficult to watch because of this problem.
We don’t place subtitles in the bottom within our edit bc it will interfere with the subtitles that RUclips produces automatically. To have these subtitles appear on your videos, you need to turn the subtitles function on within your RUclips app. You can set it to your desired language. Not everyone who views our videos is English-speaking, so they set their subtitles to French or German or Danish, etc. In this particular video, a lot of French is being spoken. So people who have their YT subtitles turned on and set to the default would be reading French language and not knowing what was being said. So, in this particular video, we added an English translation at the top so everyone can understand. If we place our subtitles at the bottom, RUclips’s subtitles would appear over them and you’d have subtitles on top of subtitles which is a big mess. So, ‘Try turning on the YT subtitle function and set the type to your desired size and language.’ I hope that helps. 😊
@@queensescape I do use the RUclips subtitles but I don’t read French so they wouldn’t be much help. Maybe if you use a darker bold font for the top writing, we would be able to read it. Anyway, thanks for getting back to me and best wishes!
🍎 Karen and Bo,
Fabulous hot hot but windy day in our part of the world! We must finish your vlog's topic about your neighbor's flock of birds and bats. They have a sixth sense of smell so to speak as they will smell water from a distance, that's how they find water. They especially love flowing water like your neighbor's beautiful, clean, clear water. Birds are very particular with water since they have to depend on where there is fresh water to drink. Most species of birds when they want to be territorial, they will poop everywhere especially on the roof so that other birds will smell their droppings so they know that that particular building is where they're going to nest so the other birds can stay away. They mean business as they will attack other birds to keep them away. Bats since they have to be upside down, their blood is always warm, so to stay cool they always try to find caves because there's usually water and lots of moisture in caves and in the rocks where they can hide from other predators. That's why you can find them in caves all over the world.
We must tell you about whales and dolphins since they're so much admired in the deep ocean in the world, because of their great ability of strength and grace, and love to come around the yachts and boats. They also have a sixth sense of hearing the boats and big vessels as they will know five miles away and come to the vessels and will come up out of the water to look in people's eyes and will know immediately when they look in your eyes if you are there to admire and appreciate them or to hurt them. God forbid if they know you're going to hurt them like some of the fishermen in the deep ocean to catch them for food, they have been known many times to swim under the vessel or circle it and flip it over. Many fisherman have lost their life unfortunately. Dolphins have also been known in the ocean to spot one or two people if they lost their boat and circle or swim under them so you can hold on to their fins and they will literally carry you on their backs to shore to save your life. My grandfather was a ship captain for many years so I know a little about the beautiful whales and dolphins. One last fact and that's about elephants for people that don't know. In the wild they also are one of the smartest creatures in the world. They will know days before when an earthquake is coming as they feel the ground rumbling and moving. That's when they will travel in a herd for miles to get away from that area where they are when they know an earthquake is coming. Isn't that amazing? So we must all try to be wise and smart like the fabulous, wonderful creatures of the earth.
Bye for now.🌴
I always find your comments interesting. 🐬
This was painful to listen to because of the language barrier. The chateau looks beautiful with the lighting.
Only for some of us English only speaking persons.
It was very gracious of him to explain regardless of language barrier.
Bertrand's English was admirable. What a great guy and neighbor!
It’s not a smooth and easy process integrating, but the only way is forward so strap in. 😊
I think the verbal dexterity involved in language learning is beautifully demonstrated via this exchange. Kudos to all three of you! What a lovely man!!
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistern
How far was this structure from the orangerie?
Probably 25 meters in a straight line. Today you have to walk around the building to get there.