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dimanche 16 août 2026

ETAPE / STAGE 13/3

Département 38 Isère

New department visited!

The town name is : Pierre-Châtel

Grenoble et Pont en Royans... deux autres villes en Isère

Rappel des indices / Some explanations about the clues

1/ The shape of the frost on the window was (supposed to) showing a 3 and an 8.

On the book she was writing the poem The Ruin about wall-stones and stone in French is pierre.

2/ The ladies named all the villages around Pierre Châtel. All the names are male name of saints. Pierre is Peter and means stone. A famous "pierced" stone near the city. Dauphiné (Dauphiny) is the name of the old province including Isère.

And again : châtel = château = castle

1/ Le givre sur les fenêtres dessinait un trois et un huit 3 8

Le poême : the ruin faisait allusion aux murs de pierre.

Toutes les villages cités par les dames comportait des prénoms de saints masculins ainsi que Pierre-Châtel, le Dauphiné étant le nom de la province.

Our guide was Christine de Pizan - born in Italy around 1364 moving in 1368 to France where she lived until 1430. Earliest feminist French writer well known for "the book of the city of the ladies" and "the treasure of the city of the ladies" and poetry, biography, novels, philosophy...

Notre guide était Christine de Pizan

She was honored with a statue during the Paris Olympic Games along the Seine with other renowned women.

As a little nod to our guide, some stitchings and crafts about

Petit clin d'oeil à notre guide avec quelques ouvrages sur

The dinner party - Judy Chicago 1974 1979 Brooklyn Museum New York

A tribute to women’s history in the form of a large triangular table set with 39 place settings, whose stylised plates pay homage to 39 women—both real and mythological—who have left their mark on the history of humanity and women.

L’œuvre (1974-79), exposée au Brooklyn Museum de New York, est un hommage à l’histoire des femmes sous la forme d’une grande table triangulaire comprenant 39 couverts dont les assiettes stylisées rendent hommage à 39 femmes, réelles ou mythologiques, qui ont marqués l’histoire de l’humanité et des femmes.

Let's discover a local embroiderer

Découvrons une brodeuse de la région

Marie-Christine Duret, lacemaker, dentellière

Réunion à Crolles

La dentelle aux fuseaux était très pratiquée autrefois et des rassemblements de dentellières étaient organisés dans les villages que l'on appelait "des couviges"

Bobbin lace-making was very popular in the past, and gatherings of lacemakers were organised in the villages; these were known as ‘couviges’