Here's where we turned back and retraced our steps back up the hill toward the castle.
It was a good day to hang out clothes with mostly sunny skies and dry air. I'm sure that laundry has been hung out to dry since before the days when the castle was built. But they probably didn't use colorful plastic clothespins.
For a reason unknown to me — and just as it happens with Chenonceau(x) — the name of the château in Lapalisse in spelled differently from that of the town in which it sits. Here the name of the château is La Palice! :-) What name came first, probably La Palice, the name of those people who built the original chateau before the area was really settled and became a town.
ReplyDeleteThis caused me to look up images of medieval clothes "pegs."
ReplyDeletechm, I think what I read confirms that La Palice came first. But then, I wonder, where does La Palice come from? ;)
ReplyDeletemitch, were any painted in vibrant colors? Or were they brown, brown, and brown?
All brown wood, brown wood, brown wood. But I think that was simply because their colorful plastic coatings had worn off over the centuries.
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