A Medieval Castle in the 20th Century - France

[awsome5ful]

i like mid evil! :)

[msa1985]

"nothing takes that long to build"

yeah go to ground zero and tell us that.

[gloryboxlock]

I was thinking "I can't wait to see the end result!" but realised it's going to be done is 2028... haha oops

[pacs8311]

How did they get funding for this again?

[MyLineageII]

@pacs8311 200 000 people go there each years ... mabye they pay 5 euro each :P

[TheArcticKid]

when im 16, im going to france. ill work there fir free, i want to live midieval, the moden world sucks!

[andrewsfunk]

at 0:01 its orlando bloom

[CapitanoGUC]

if some of the workes get married - does the side manager the right of the 2prima noctes" ???? :-D

[feuille2niggle]

@CapitanoGUC Except for one detail.... "prima nocte" has always been a myth!!!

[CapitanoGUC]

@feuille2niggle but thats, like you say only a fucking "detail" - and the couple marying may dosen´t know, that it is only a myth ...:D

[feuille2niggle]

@CapitanoGUC Ok. I'll take it easy *Deep Breath* -- these ideas are repeated everywhere by the people who like to see Middle Ages as wild and dark ages. Now, if you listen to real historians, they tell you the same : it's a myth. (Don't let yourself be impressed by movies like Braveheart ;o)

[CapitanoGUC]

@feuille2niggle whateveeeeeeeeeeeer :-/

[tmsods]

how do they live off of that?

[30thMarch]

Do the people there get actually paid for the work? Because I wondered that if it was just volunteers then how would they make a living?

[Ildarioon]

@30thMarch They aren't paid for that, there is only volunteers.

[RevolutionaryPan]

@30thMarch Assuming that it's like the Ozark Medieval Fortress in the USA (also by Michel Guyot), there are full-time, paid workers, as well as volunteers, interns, etc.

[fdr100100]

this is stupid in the middle ages there were way more people building then like 12 people there would have been like 500 people

[LeDonjonDeMontbazon]

"We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. "

Arthur Erickson Author

Best medieval Regards

The Black Falcon Fortress

[TheGel69]

stop fighting about how rude one might be....just enjoy the beauty of the project......I am French living in the US and my experience showed me that idiots and nice people are everywhere in the same ratio......in the TGV between Paris and Lyon as well as the street of London or in Florida where I live ....so chill out and enjoy the show.

[SuperSaiyan2Vegito]

I am curious to know if they spend 5 days a week doing this. That would be some hard ass work!

[Snapx4000]

it look like real age of empires

[viatus]

That is the cooles fucking shit ever!!!!!!!!

[Brainless78]

Maybe because it's not aimed at foreign tourists... Yet. As it gains importance, you can be sure it will become more adapted for foreigners.

But as a frenchman, yeah, when some tourists comes to me and directly speaks to me in english, i will be a lot more ill-mannered than if he made the effort to learn some basic things like saying "bonjour" or "parlez vous anglais?", instead of assuming that anyone should speak english. If you dont do this, no wonder you think most french people are rude.

[remko2]

@Brainless78 Well, I'll yet have to meet the first frenchman who will greet me with "Goedenmorgen" and "Spreekt u Frans" ....

But I guess the rules for us are different :D

[Mububban23]

We visited the castle in 2007. Amazing to see traditional crafts still in action. Unfortunately, in typical French fashion, they make ZERO allowances for non-French speaking tourists. Sorry, we don't speak French in Australia. So no English/German/Italian etc tour, no placards, no pamphlets to read - nothing. Still amazing and worthwhile though.

[TemplarX2]

@Mububban23 That's because it's not really a tourists site.

[Mububban23]

@TemplarX2 Seriously?  I wonder what all those tourists were doing there then. And the tour guides. And the ticket sales office. And the "make a group tour booking" link on their website.

Amazing site, poor for non-natives. Greece and Italy were way better catering for multiple foreign languages but that's France for you.

[TemplarX2]

@Mububban23 France has 80 million tourists a year. I don't think give a crap. In France, they speak French. If you can't speak french, hire a translator.

[Mububban23]

@TemplarX2 Italy has 43 million tourists a year. They give a crap. Greece has 18 million. They give a crap. Signs in English, Greek, French & Spanish from memory. They give a crap BECAUSE of their tourists. France has some lovely people, but also the rudest people I've ever met, and I've travelled a little bit.

Still, if I ever get back to France, I'd love to see the castle again and how it's progressing. The roof wasn't done when we visited but I believe it's up now. I've got till 2020 :-)

[mouna28]

The building site can also be visited, of course !!!

[mouna28]

Everybody can see the building site of the castle month after month on their site: "CHATEAU DE GUEDELON " .... Its is a very interesting idea.

[mouna28]

They are not Amish !!! They are manual workers who are interested in growing up in their own job and who are excited by this very big project.,very big deal ! They have no modern machines... It is in BURGONDY (department of YONNE) and the castle is called GUEDELON.

[Rowanriver]

where is this? i want to see it.

[ClamLuvr]

Is this an Amish community.

[alpacks]

@ClamLuvr bullshit ... there is no amish in france : is not religious "things" like amish in USA ...

is just french people who like their history and participate voluntarily has recreate castles to understand used building methods, the medieval society and its social relations of people at this age ...

it's not a community : it's a laboratory ! of re-taking over history by french people who want to do, to live it ...

[W1window]

Well there are probably thirteenth century laws that are still legal whereby government grants and tax write offs make it feasable to have a Primary Production businsess, that will go on for another 20years or indefinately; all discovered by law history post-doctoral students at univestiy -now directors of the project.

Ingenious!

cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[samoged]

all thirteeth century laws have bin reappealed and the tacks pinpoint the neccessartaryness of medi-aevel like evil ken evil who was also a law student in the physics/law dept of the school of ard noxus

which is in preposterus pax ho minibus a good way of gettin round in the medi aeval period which was about 700

ken invented the pax hominibikus but was fatally injured when he set sights on the moon-most disengenuous like a mouse

[AllaMoanaBePraised]

Dear sa.,

I couldn't agree more; you're absolutely right.

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If anything there is more of it about now, some things never completely die out, it is just that all olds can't remember.

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Keep up the good work.

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[samoged]

bring on the shawms 'n'curses I say theres plenty of olders who remembers the embers glowin bright before they died out;the quarrymen was active in the mediaevil times of 62 when the jersey o't'mersey was well kennt.and twenty years is a long time even for ancient drewits and t like.draw on the kownoledge, I speck,tis no more to be afried.

[AllaMoanaBePraised]

My father died; I clos'd his eyes, outside the cabin door; The landlord and the sheriff too, were there the day before, And then my poor old mother, and my sisters three, also, Were forced to go with broken hearts, from the Glen of Aherlow I come of honest parents, but now they're lying low;

For six long weeks, in search of work, I wandered far and near;

I then went to the poorhouse to see my mother dear;

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[ClamLuvr]

Hey samoged, What kind of drugs were you high on when you wrote that comment?

[samoged]

acorns fermented for 7 years in the marinade of truffles and frog sweat.just a tincture mind unless ye loose yer own mind and lose ert all togetha

[foxfirebruk]

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