Morvan seen by Henri Vincenot

Le Pape des escargots

They took without hesitating the cool corridor of the Cure then the ravine where the Cousin streamed under leafy branches of alders and beeches, to surprise Avallon in his ramparts crowned with the big trees of Sully. In the hall of St-Lazare, they saw the signs engraved on pilasters and archivolts, and three points of trepan, repeated as one pleases by their distant brothers who built these sanctuaries.
 

A pond in Morvan

Later, we leave main roads to get lost in the rising roads which, from groves to brooms, carried them in the quotation 600, among the dark ponds eaten by black rushes, undergrowth, thin lands, littles meadows where the brook gets stuck in the mud, before cascading on a rock brown, round as a bagpipe.

They kept silent, because Morvan is sturdy silence after the clear tunes of the calcareous countries.

Morvan

Le Pape des escargots

Gilbert decides to become a journeyman.

La Gazette, this old Gallic wise person who visits all Burgundy the stick in the hand by auguring all day long, is one of only agent of the science and the Celtic philosophy to have kept the Secret.

On the construction sites where works Gilbert, the old chap will explain him the sense lost by cathedrals, these works were inspired by the Celtic religion but got back by the Christianity.

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