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Sign: Blois - The Acrobats’ House


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3B Pl. Saint-Louis, 41000 Blois, France
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On the sign:
MAISON DES ACROBATES
La maison des acrobates se distingue par deux étages en encorbeltement et par des consoles et avant soliers sculptés de scenes et de personnages tires des fablaux ou fables du Moyen Age.
Seules les maisons à pans de bois qui présentent un décor suffisamment fourni penvent être datées. Ici, les vêtements des personnages qui ornent la façade sont antérieurs à 1480. La datation par dendrochronologie (études des cernes du bois) l’a confirmé en identifiant une construction remontant aux années 1470, c’est-à dire contemporaine du règne de Louis XI.

The Acrobats’ House has two corbelled upper storeys with backets and corbelling carved with scenes and characters from mediaeval comic tales or fables.
Only timber-frame houses with sufficiently profuse decoration can be dated. In this case the clothing on the characters decorating the façade dates from before 1480. A study of the rings in the timber confirmed that the building was erected in the 1470s i.e. during the reign of Louis XI.

[Emblem of the Blois Municipality]
[Logo of Les directions régionales des affaires culturelles]
[old logo of Villes et Pays d’art et d’histoire]
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Comments:
A sign from the series of signs describing historical places in the city of Blois

The sign depicts the House of Acrobats, an existing house from the 15th century.

The house is designated a historical heritage site of France.

The house was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image




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