JOYCEAN PICS 2008
Chateau Royal or the Da Vinci Court, Amboise
Contents of This Page


  La Loire
  Amboise
  Chateau Royal d'Amboise (including the Bust of Leonardo da Vinci)
  Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise (including the Tomb of Leonardo da Vinci)
  Farewell Banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium
  
  
CONTENTS 2008
   1  Tours IJJF Symposium 2008: "Re-Nascent Joyce"
   2  Tours and Joyce
   3  Tours: miscellanea
   4  La Maison du Vouvray
   5  Boat Trip down the Loire
   6  Chateau Royal or the Da Vinci Court, Amboise
   7  Paris and Joyce
   8  Paris: miscellanea
   9  Mont-Saint-Michel
  10  Dublin, Jew and Joyce: "Jublin"
  11  Dublin: miscellanea
  12  Athlone
  13  Clonmacnoise (Cluain Mhic Nois)
  14  Belfast: "You Are Now Entering Loyalist Sandy Row"
  15  Carrickfergus Castle
  16  The Hurry Head, East Antrim (Co. Antrim)
  17  Carrick-a-Rede
  18  The Old Bushmills Distillery Co. Ltd.
  19  Dunluce Castle
  20  The Giant's Causeway
  21  Seoul JJSK Conference 2008
  22  Seoul: miscellanea 2008

Chateau Royal or the Da Vinci Court, Amboise
20 June 2008

  
  Amboise is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.  It lies on the banks of the Loire River, 14 miles east of Tours.  Today a small market town (pop c.12,000), it was once home of the French royal court.
  The Amboise conspiracy was the conspiracy of Conde and the Huguenots in 1560 against Francis II, Catherine de' Medici, and the Guises.  The Edict of Amboise (1563) conceded the free exercise of their worship to the Protestants.
  The great Leonardo da Vinci spent the remaining years of his life in Amboise.  Some of his inventions are still in Amboise and have not been removed.  The house has lost some of its original building, but it still remains standing today with a beautiful overlook of the Loire River.  Abd el Kader Ibn Mouhi Ad-Din (c.1807-83) was imprisoned at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise.

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La Loire
      The Loire River is the longest river in France. With a length of 1,020 kilometers (630 mi), it drains an area of 117,000 sq km (45,000 sq mi), which represents more than a fifth of France's land area.
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 (Friday 20 June) Pont G. Leclerc
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 (Friday 20 June) La Loire, viewed from Pont G. Leclerc
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 (Friday 20 June) La Loire, viewed from Pont G. Leclerc
  
      
Amboise
      The city is famous for the Clos Luce manor house (no photo available in this site) where Leonardo da Vinci lived (and ultimately died) at the invitation of Francis I of France, whose Chateau d'Amboise, which dominates the town, is located just 500 meters away.  The narrow streets contain some good examples of timbered housing.
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 (Friday 20 June) A chapel, Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) A chapel, Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Rue Nationale, Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Rue Nationale, Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal, viewed from Rue Victor Hugo
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 (Friday 20 June) Quai des Marais
  
      
Chateau Royal
      Chateau Royal d'Amboise where Leonardo da Vinci is buried.  So I call this castle "the Da Vinci Court."
  Built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, this authentic royal chateau introduced Italian taste into the Loire Valley.  A place of history, it warmly recalls the past with an exceptional collection of Gothic and Renaissance furniture.
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise, viewed from Quai Charles Guinot by La Loire
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise, viewed from Quai Charles Guinot by La Loire
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise, viewed from Quai Charles Guinot by La Loire
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise, viewed from Quai Charles Guinot by La Loire
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Me and Yen-Yen Hsiao (National Tsinghua University, Taiwan), Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Bust of Leonardo da Vinci, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Bust of Leonardo da Vinci, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Gallery of Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) A view from the gallery of Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) A view from the gallery of Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) A view from the gallery of Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Two balloons viewed from the gallery of Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) A balloon, viewed from the gallery of Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Another balloon, viewed from the gallery of Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Two balloons viewed from the gallery of Chateau Royal d'Amboise<
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 (Friday 20 June) An antique tapestry hung on a wall of Chateau Royal d'Amboise<
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 (Friday 20 June) An antique tapestry hung on a wall of Chateau Royal d'Amboise
  
      
Chapelle St-Hubert
      Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise where Leonardo da Vinci rests in peace.
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 (Friday 20 June) Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Altar of Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Altar of Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Tomb of Leonardo da Vinci, Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Tomb of Leonardo da Vinci, Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Tomb of Leonardo da Vinci, Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Inscriptions of the tomb of Leonardo da Vinci, Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Tomb of Leonardo da Vinci and the altar of Chapelle St-Hubert, Chateau Royal d'Amboise
  
      
Farewell Banquet
      Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) A commendation ceremony for Fritz Senn, director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation: Morris Beja (The Ohio State University, USA; the founder of IJJF) and Incoming President Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin, Ireland) do honor to Fritz Senn for his lifetime achievement in Joyce studies.
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 (Friday 20 June) A commendation ceremony for Fritz Senn, director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation: Morris Beja (The Ohio State University, USA; the founder of IJJF) and Incoming President Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin, Ireland) do honor to Fritz Senn for his lifetime achievement in Joyce studies.
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 (Friday 20 June) A commendation ceremony for Fritz Senn, director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation: Morris Beja (The Ohio State University, USA; the founder of IJJF) and Incoming President Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin, Ireland) do honor to Fritz Senn for his lifetime achievement in Joyce studies.
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 (Friday 20 June) A commendation ceremony for Fritz Senn, director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation: Morris Beja (The Ohio State University, USA; the founder of IJJF) and Incoming President Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin, Ireland) do honor to Fritz Senn for his lifetime achievement in Joyce studies.
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 (Friday 20 June) A commendation ceremony for Fritz Senn, director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation: Morris Beja (The Ohio State University, USA; the founder of IJJF) and Incoming President Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin, Ireland) do honor to Fritz Senn for his lifetime achievement in Joyce studies.
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Sing-along at the farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise<
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet of the XIst International James Joyce Symposium "Re-Nascent Joyce" at the Chateau Royal d'Amboise
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 (Friday 20 June) Mrs. MacMillan (Toronto, Canada), me and arissa Aixas (University of Barcelona, Spain)
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 (Friday 20 June) Aida Yared (USA), and two Joyceans (please let me know your names!) with a tapestry in the background
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 (Friday 20 June) Me with a tapestry in the background.  Photo by Aida Yared (USA).
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet: Hors doeuvre
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet: Le Llat principal
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet: Le Dessert
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 (Friday 20 June) Farewell banquet: Le Coffee
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 (Friday 20 June) La Loire, viewed from Chateau Royal
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 (Friday 20 June) La Loire, viewed from Chateau Royal




        


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