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The events
of Rennes-Le-Château
May 1999
The restorations of the gardens of the church |
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 Since the second half of the month of April 1999, the village of Rennes-Le-Château is in effervescence! Big works have been decided by the township in order to restore the gardens of the church and to return them the aspect that Bérenger Saunière had given to them. Besides this extraordinary restoration, it has also been decided to suppress all electric and telephonic cables that disfigure the picturesque aspect of this village.
But best is to leave the feather to Alain Feral :
GARDEN OF THE VIRGIN MARY PILLAR
1 - The arrangement of the small alleys that surrounds the Virgin's tile and the pedestal of the pillar has been restored..
A share of tiles of borders, identical to the tiles of borders to motives" flower of disposed lilies" previously by Bérenger Saunière - and that had disappeared - has been found, bought and put back in place.
We won't insist on the fact that the new tracing of the alleys doesn't respect, to the comma near, the initial plan.
GARDEN OF THE MARTYRDOM
2 - The underground cave to the "bench" of the garden of Martyrdom, named by Bérenger Saunière" garden of rockery ", has been rebuilt. The entrepreneur, Joël Fuentes, even ornamented it of a small basin and recess to lightings. The Mayor, "stretching the paw", placed in one of them the Virgin's statue.
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…since the following day, a white rose decorated with flowers the protective fluting. |
3 - The Christ's pillar in cross endured écartèlement due to the time and to the cyclic starts of the basements of Rennes the Castle. Its stripping, of the efficient care and its bets in splints in view of a good rehabilitation put it back on feet in some days.
Let's recall that the projects of the Township aim, between other, to restore fully, on time to come, the totality of the elements of the garden of Martyrdom. To know therefore again :
-- The main cave and its basin.
-- The second small cave Marie Madeleine. Its cascade.
-- The raising of the copy of the Baptistery and its spray of water, facing the door of the Cemetery.
-- The raising of the low walls edging the massifs of flowers and the roadbeds.
-- The discount in place in its lodging, to the central entry of the garden, of the symbolic small door made of iron, without hinges nor lock, recessed and immobilized, enclosed, by Bérenger at the time of his original planning, facing the identical giving on the Virgin's garden.
…all it, surely, following the auscultation and to the previous funding of the basements |
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