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Veteran cars tour the historic sites of north-east France
It has been around for hundreds of years; during the Great War it was used to care for soldiers; afterwards it became a settlement, and last Saturday it was the setting for some 40 beautiful veteran cars. As locations go, the French Club des Teuf-Teuf could not have chosen better for this year's Rallye des Ancêtres.
From a pair of Leon Bollées, various De Dion-Boutons and a Schaudel Motobloc, to the big four-cylinder Mors in which the PreWarCar.com team participated, there was a wide variety of cars built up to (and including) 1905 to be seen adorning the marvellous courtyard. The location I am talking about is the carrières de Montigny, an extraordinary quarry with underground passages and caves. At Montigny-sur-Meuse, stones were cut for many years before being transported to Paris to make the grand boulevards of the capital. Stone quarrying stopped at the outbreak of the First World War and resumed only in a much reduced capacity after the conflict.
During the Great War, workers lived in the shafts, which also housed a military hospital. The fact that many soldiers sought refuge here at that time was still visible through the works of art they created to pass the time and divert their thoughts. After the war, people from the surrounding area came to the carrières and fashioned houses from the limestone to live self-sufficiently as troglodytes. In 1970, the last resident left and for about a decade it has been open to the public. It was a beautiful location, almost paradisiacal if only it were not tainted by the wounds of war.
The Montigny quarry was not the only historic site we discovered. The Saturday afternoon ended at the beautiful town hall of Choisy-au-Bac, where the public could enjoy the gleaming brass. A lovely sunny day with early cars in the French countryside—now we know exactly what's meant by the Dutch expression "like a king in France."
Enjoy the pictures!
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mercoledì ottobre 9th, 2024
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Laurent Zoller
09 Ottobre 2024, 11:29
"Wie Gott in Frankreich".
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C'est bien vrai.
Nos amis allemands disent la même chose :
"Wie Gott in Frankreich" .