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’




Un petit tour en montagne

Let's go to mountain




















Some other recipes about cheese cooking  "Fondue" and "Tartiflette"




The special shoe horn today is with...     the marmots

Petit lien inattendu avec ...  les marmottes



I have linked this stage with    medieval ladies

J'ai choisi d'associer cette étape aux dames à l'époque médiévale

























Tomorrow we're going to play cards...

Demain, nous allons jouer aux cartes...