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The Journeys around
of Rennes-Le-Château
| Journey to Rennes-Les-Bains |
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 A lot of people surrender to Rennes-tLes-Bains to follow a water cure there. Since several centuries the place is known for its waters to the beneficial virtues to take care of rheumatisms and arthritises. Already the Romans came to take the baths there.
When I returned myself there for the first time I wanted to discover the village of abbot Boudet especially. This priest so strange that, for a lot of authors, was the alter ego of Bérenger Saunière. He was named priest of October 16, 1872 there to April 30, 1914. |
 It is not really easy to find the church of the village. Includes in a set of buildings, It seems to be to conceal. It possesses a covered square that looks more like a yard, a few to the picture of those that some could know in their childhood. More often closed that open this church is not simple to visit. |
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When one crosses yard-square one can reach the old cemetery of the village. To every time that me I return there I cannot forget the sinister floodings of 1992 that carried away a big part of the burials. In some minutes the Sals, this small river that usually flows peacefully at the end of the cemetery and that crosses the village, |
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inflated itself for that to transform in a wall of water of several meter high that ravaged everything on its passage. Didn't the villagers say that they transfer to pass, in the torrential and muddy streams, of the coffins that were buried by the power of water? Disaster memories |
The tombs were put back in place and with the passing of my steps I recover the one of Jean VIE, that was a former vicar of the village. Gérard De Sède presents us his tomb as being mysterious! |
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Doesn't it carry the date of January 17 under coded and hidden shape? It is what the author journalist says us! I leave you to your reflection |
While going back up, I cross the tomb of the DeFleury! They are there them also! |
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It is strange places around this village, I look at the hill and I remember my" journey in the armchair of the Devil ". It is from there, yet, that I had the most beautiful view of the village of Rennes-Les-Bains.. |
Not very far from the exit of the village one can find the Madeleine's Source, beautiful place for that to bathe the feet! Often I imagine my Rabelais friend going for a walk maybe in these streets and active to quench at the stream of "Trinque Bouteille". What strange place this village! What strange region!
I sit down on a bench of the place and I think! I think! I tell to myself that this region is well strange! The strange places, the strange histories and the even stranger vicars! !
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