14October2024
Conférences – Albi Patrimoine
Monday, October 14 at 16 a.m.
Archives départementales du Tarn 1 avenue de la verrerie 81000 Albi
The following conferences scheduled in the Departmental Archives auditorium from 16:30 p.m.
The 09 September 2024
“Building your house with natural materials”
By Claude Le Guerranic
Building your own house is quite an experience in itself, but when you set yourself demanding criteria it becomes an adventure, even if you don't realize it right away.
The criteria were of three main types: 1) the almost exclusive use of natural materials 2) an aesthetic and ancient techniques 3) a construction with good insulation properties against heat in summer and cold in winter. From these three criteria the choice was made of stone for the foundations, wood for the frame and earth for the filling and the inertia it provides.
The conference will consist of describing all of this step by step for a project spread over three years.
The 14 October 2024
"Citadels of Vertigo"
By Vincent Bonne Bonnefille
Between the Montagne Noire and the Pyrenees, in the 13th century, at the heart of the Cathar epic, they were the high places where lords protecting the "good men" led the resistance against the invader who came from the north for the Crusade against the Albigensians. Their power will disappear at the same time as the eradication of the new religion by iron and fire. However, some of these citadels will be "recycled" to form a real "Maginot line" facing the kingdom of Aragon, on a border that has been well forgotten since.
Old stones? Of course, but not only that!
November 18, 2024
“Yvette Guilbert, the red-haired lady with black gloves”
By Yves ROYER
In two rooms of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi, one can see portraits of Yvette Guilbert and the posters that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec designed for the woman who was, from 1887 to 1900, the most famous French singer. Away from fashion, she invented her character of a mocking or tragic singer, and aroused the admiration of Bruant, Mirbeau, Huysmans, Loti and Freud. A serious illness kept her away from the stage for a while, then she retrained, opening two singing schools, writing novels, acting in 6 films and collecting thousands of French songs, dating from the Middle Ages to the Revolution, which she saved from oblivion. She is the model for many singers, from Frehel to Barbara.
On December 09th, 2024:
“The (disappeared) castle and the garden of the Verrerie, properties of the Solages family (Blaye-les-Mines)”
By Sonia Servant
In the second half of the 18th century, the castle of the knight Gabriel de Solages stood near his royal bottle glassworks, and in the middle of his mine shafts. Subsequently, his descendants had the family castle rebuilt to give it more space and a vast pleasure garden was laid out on the outskirts. The castle burned down at the end of the 19th century, but thanks to private and unpublished photographic documents, the history of this complex can now be traced.
“Building your house with natural materials”
By Claude Le Guerranic
Building your own house is quite an experience in itself, but when you set yourself demanding criteria it becomes an adventure, even if you don't realize it right away.
The criteria were of three main types: 1) the almost exclusive use of natural materials 2) an aesthetic and ancient techniques 3) a construction with good insulation properties against heat in summer and cold in winter. From these three criteria the choice was made of stone for the foundations, wood for the frame and earth for the filling and the inertia it provides.
The conference will consist of describing all of this step by step for a project spread over three years.
The 14 October 2024
"Citadels of Vertigo"
By Vincent Bonne Bonnefille
Between the Montagne Noire and the Pyrenees, in the 13th century, at the heart of the Cathar epic, they were the high places where lords protecting the "good men" led the resistance against the invader who came from the north for the Crusade against the Albigensians. Their power will disappear at the same time as the eradication of the new religion by iron and fire. However, some of these citadels will be "recycled" to form a real "Maginot line" facing the kingdom of Aragon, on a border that has been well forgotten since.
Old stones? Of course, but not only that!
November 18, 2024
“Yvette Guilbert, the red-haired lady with black gloves”
By Yves ROYER
In two rooms of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi, one can see portraits of Yvette Guilbert and the posters that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec designed for the woman who was, from 1887 to 1900, the most famous French singer. Away from fashion, she invented her character of a mocking or tragic singer, and aroused the admiration of Bruant, Mirbeau, Huysmans, Loti and Freud. A serious illness kept her away from the stage for a while, then she retrained, opening two singing schools, writing novels, acting in 6 films and collecting thousands of French songs, dating from the Middle Ages to the Revolution, which she saved from oblivion. She is the model for many singers, from Frehel to Barbara.
On December 09th, 2024:
“The (disappeared) castle and the garden of the Verrerie, properties of the Solages family (Blaye-les-Mines)”
By Sonia Servant
In the second half of the 18th century, the castle of the knight Gabriel de Solages stood near his royal bottle glassworks, and in the middle of his mine shafts. Subsequently, his descendants had the family castle rebuilt to give it more space and a vast pleasure garden was laid out on the outskirts. The castle burned down at the end of the 19th century, but thanks to private and unpublished photographic documents, the history of this complex can now be traced.
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