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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
This month we take you
to the Golf de
Compiègne in the
Picardie region, north of Paris,
about 50km from Roissy-
Charles-de-Gaulle
international airport.
This golf course, founded
in 1896, is one of the few
French courses built in the
19th century; it was designed
by W Freemantle in the
grounds of the existing and
still active horse race track of
Compiègne. It famously
hosted the Olympiades of Golf
in 1900.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
Who said “What is human life but a game of cricket – beauty the bat and man the ball”?
Peter Townsend looks back to the Revolution
And the answer? The
Duke of Dorset, around
the time of a “little
local difficulty” in France, in
1789… The Duke –
ambassador to Paris and the
finest all-rounder of his day –
thought that a good game of
cricket might calm things
down in Paris.
One of his chums – the
Earl of Tankerville – agreed to
bring a side over but it was
already too hot to play (rather
like the heatwave (canicule) in
2003, perhaps?) and so the
ambassador left Paris and
intercepted the squad in Dover.
The revolting peasants
thus prevented “the first real
attempt to introduce the
French to the spirit of fair
play”. Consolation for the
Duke: he was able instead to
watch the Kent-Surrey game.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
The 300th anniversary of
Maréchal Vauban’s death
culminates in
EquiVauban. The regional
committee of equestrian
tourism in Burgundy is
preparing to pay homage to
the great man by arranging
costumed rides which will
gather at Bazoches, where
Vauban had his château, on
July 14.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
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Teia Maman checks out a new sports resort in the Landes, the only centre offering
this discipline in France
Imagine a trail meandering
through 20 acres of lush
countryside, where all you
can hear are crickets in the tall
grass, wind in the pines, waves
crashing on the distant beach.
And the soft thud of your
horse’s hooves as he neatly
lands another jump on the
sandy jumpcross course.
All this is now available
since Jump Ocean, a luxury
resort and sports complex,
opened last month. Spread
over 50 acres of southern
Landais countryside, behind
the dunes of Messanges, the
resort offers the first
jumpcross course in France.
The resort’s founders are
passionate about jumpcross, a
new equestrian discipline that
has grown popular with riding
clubs in England.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
The emergence of women
drivers and jockeys is
evident, above all in the
mounted races. Here in the
South-West we’ve two Valéries
who have distinguished
themselves driving, both exstudents
of mine at Villereal’s
centre d’apprentissage, and in
the wider world Nathalie
Henry who won the Président
de la République Cup last
month at Vincennes, one of the
most important mounted races
of the year.
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