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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Imperial Dave on Jun 13, 2025, 05:27 PM

Title: 640 year old castle discovered under French hotel
Post by: Imperial Dave on Jun 13, 2025, 05:27 PM
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/castle-discovered-under-hotel-france-2672340044

Sacre bleu!
Title: Re: 640 year old castle discovered under French hotel
Post by: Nick Harbud on Jun 15, 2025, 10:49 AM
Amazing!  I mean, in Leicester all they discovered were some old bones from a previous monarch.

 :-\
Title: Re: 640 year old castle discovered under French hotel
Post by: Imperial Dave on Jun 15, 2025, 12:47 PM
That was so last week....
Title: Re: 640 year old castle discovered under French hotel
Post by: Cantabrigian on Jun 16, 2025, 06:05 PM
The Louvre museum has some really impressive castle ruins in their basement.
Title: Re: 640 year old castle discovered under French hotel
Post by: Imperial Dave on Jun 16, 2025, 08:15 PM
Behind shutters....
Title: Re: 640 year old castle discovered under French hotel
Post by: Nick Harbud on Jun 17, 2025, 09:20 AM
This news article (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/16/style/louvre-paris-museum-closed-strike-intl-scli) might help explain Dave's comments...
Title: Re: 640 year old castle discovered under French hotel
Post by: Erpingham on Jun 17, 2025, 09:31 AM
Quote from: Nick Harbud on Jun 17, 2025, 09:20 AMThis news article (https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/16/style/louvre-paris-museum-closed-strike-intl-scli) might help explain Dave's comments...


I suspect simple wordplay. The Louvre situation is, however, lamentable.
Title: Re: 640 year old castle discovered under French hotel
Post by: Imperial Dave on Jun 17, 2025, 11:55 AM
both but especially the latter  :)
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