Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Monday, 10 May 2010
no town is complete without its own polo field
Behind a line of houses along the coupure du parc - the snippet of the park - a 19th century suburb of Richelieu carved out of the northern extremity of the ducal parc, is that grandiose and stylish asset, a 300 x 200m polo field. Not only a polo field, but a string of live polo ponies as well.
We will have to stop calling it 'that poor little town of Richelieu', or maybe insist that all the BIG money lives in Chaveignes, the little commune that includes the coupure du parc.
Location on the map in the column to the right....
And the local taxes are lower in Chaveignes, they say.
Persian polo as played in the 1550s
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Sunday, 17 May 2009
A Saturday mass for Saint Hubert
On Saturday 18 April 2009, the little church of Saint Martin de Rilly, a few kilometres from the cité idèale of Richelieu, held a hunter's mass at which the local trompes de chasse played the service's music and the image of Saint Hubert, patron saint of hunters, was paraded. The young curé more-or-less succeeded in incorporating the slaying of wild beasts into the Christian homily, although he asserted that he himself was no hunter of little creatures.
The ritual showed how innocent ancient rural traditions live on in la france profonde, without being a part of some modern touristic construct, as are the more grandiose events of venery at the château de Chambord, not so far away.
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
The Tour de France threads its way through Richelieu
The fifth stage of the famous cycle race will pass through Richelieu tomorrow, Wednesday 8th July 2008.
follow the race here
10/7/08 The two pictures were taken by Laurent Bonnet while the peleton passed through the Porte de Loudun and are posted on Jean-Louis' blog. Sadly blog-master Henri Proust could not attend in person. Thanks!
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