Azay-le-Rideau : ce n'est qu'un au revoir

This is a set of more or less random photos that I took in 2017 at Azay-le-Rideau. The man in the black boots is a portrait inside the château. I have yet been able to identify it more completely. The view of the château with a section of wall taken out... well, I don't even know where I took that one. Inside the château? On a street in the town?





The stained glass window on the right is the work of an artist named Jacques Grüber, who was one of Max Ingrand's mentors and teachers.







The statue of Joan of Arc (below left) was obviously inside the St. Symphorien church. And Au Bon Vin de Touraine(below right) is a restaurant in the town. I think its specialty these days is pizza.

Azay-le-Rideau : un vitrail de Max Ingrand

During the second world war, quite a few of the stained glass windows at the Église Saint-Symphorien in Azay were destroyed. Some of them were replaced in 1955, including this one by the maître-verrier (master glazier) named Max Ingrand. The scene depicted is the crowning of the Virgin Mary. It's a very large window.

L'Église St-Symphorien d'Azay-le-Rideau

The Michelin green guidebook calls St-Symphorien cette curieuse église du 11e siècle, aggrandie au siècle suivant puis au 16e siècle. It continues: ..sur la partie droite de la façade à pignons [on voit] des élément de l'église primitif du 5e et 6e siècles...

Une promenade...

...dans les rues d'Azay-le-Rideau en mars 2017.

      


We were on our way to Chinon to see a breeder of Shetland sheepdogs to see if we could get one from her. We did: Natasha. We didn't bring her home until May, after she was weaned, vaccinated, and registered. By the way, we had lunch that day at the restaurant called La Salamandre (photos above), which seems to have gone belly-up during the covid pandemic and has been replaced by a much more upscale restaurant called L'Épine (The Thorn). A new place to try...