jocondine: ETAPE / STAGE 1/3

dimanche 24 mai 2026

ETAPE / STAGE 1/3

Département 27 Eure

New department visited!

Hello ladies! First I want to tell you how happy I am to welcome you on this Tour de France, it was so great to find your comments and mails for this first stage. Thanks for participating and add your own questions, knowledge and informations.

And now let's go and have a look around...

The town name is : Château Gaillard les Andelys

Rappel des indices / Some explanations about the clues

Our guides were the characters of Robin Hood Disney movie.

They already participated in the "Games/Toys" themed Tour de France in 2019.

All the drawings were used for the Monte Carlo stage (I'm recycling... an eco-friendly tour ;)

The story was perfect for this first introduction stage as we shared with our English Friends a lot of history and territories during the Medieval time.

1/ the minstrel Alan-a-Dale was giving the clue about the department number. Adding 7 (th edition) to 17 (stages) and to 3 (three numbers) gave you 27 and another one with "hour" which means "heure" in French which is the homonym word for "Eure" the department name.

A la bonne heure meaning something like : good news here.

2/ Prince John was talking about his brother Richard who gave the order to build the castle of Château Gaillard overlooking the river Seine (1198). The quote is from Richard after only one year of construction.

Pour vous accompagner en cette première étape : les personnages de Robin des Bois - dessin animé de Disney - dont les dessins avaient déjà illustré le TdF3 lors de l'étape de Monte Carlo, je recycle pour obtenir le label éco-responsable, ah ah !

Tout au long du Moyen Age nous avons partagé notre histoire et nos territoires avec nos amis anglais dont la Normandie et Château Gaillard.

1/ Indices donnés par le ménestrel Adam de la Halle : en additionnant les nombres 7 (ème édition) et 17 (étapes) et 3 (trois chiffres) vous obteniez 27 le numéro du département de l'Eure (A la bonne heure !).

I have chosen this place as the first stage because of the place of Richard Heart of Lion, his parents and brothers in our history.

As a little nod to the Plantagenet family, some stitchings and crafts about their members.

Petit clin d'oeil aux membres de la famille Plantagenêt avec quelques ouvrages.

Aliénor d'Aquitaine (1124 - 1204 Queen of France then Queen of England) mother of Richard

Aliénor, Eleonore, Eleanor... one of my favorite firstnames

Alienor on Salisbury St Lawrence Church kneeler

We visited Fontevraud Abbey some years ago, here are some pictures of the recombend effigy tombs of Richard and Isabelle d'Angoulême

Let's discover an embroiderer in Indre et Loire : Marie Sirgue with a big project about Alienor d'Aquitaine she shared with an Ukrainian embroiderer Margo Nirod refugiee in Touraine.

Découvrons une brodeuse d'Indre et Loire Marie Sirgue avec son grand project autour d'Alienor d'Aquitaine qu'elle partage avec Margo Nirod une brodeuse ukrainienne réfugiée en Touraine.