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one of the 1000 castles in the Dordogne

6 responses to “Fetchez la vache!”

  1. Wow! That is a lot of Cow-Flingers!

    I certainly hope you went away, they look very prepared to taunt you a second (and third and fourth) time.

  2. Is there someone else up there we could talk to?

    (are those really trebuchets?)

  3. Okay. Normally, we’re all supposed to be above quoting Python at this stage in our lives but this made my day.

    Thanks.

  4. haven’t checked, but there can’t be too many photos on flickr with the ‘trebuchet’ tag?!!?!

  5. Château Castelnaud

    Le musée

    Here are some websites that give good information on this powerful war machine still very popular today among people fascinated with the physics and mechanics aspect of a trébuchet.

    Wikipedai Trebuchet

    members.iinet.com.au/~rmine/gctrebs.html

    Wikipedia Français Trébuchet

    excellent resource in French:
    Le Trébuchet

    A classic trébuchet employed as many as 60 people, some 124.

  6. Ken, there are a very large number of Flickr tag links for trébuchet.

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