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Milestones or Guard Stones in Versailles<\/h2>\n
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Versailles Milestones, or Piss stones or guard stones – December 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At first, I thought these milestones might have been installed for dogs to relieve themselves. Which they undoubtedly seem to be doing, with their masters’ blessing, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

On second thought I realised they might not be milestones at all but protective stones to avoid the pillars (there is a flat upstairs) to be damaged by horse-drawn or man-drawn carts.<\/p>\n

Many of such stones can be seen in mediaeval cities like Provins<\/a>, a formerly prominent town in the East of the Paris region, theoretically in the Champagne region. Check the June festival<\/a>, who knows, once the umpteenth lockdown has been lifted, maybe we’ll be allowed to go places again.<\/p>\n

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One can see another one in the courtyard of a house in Versailles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a shame I can’t put some alongside my Brompton<\/a>‘s wheels to protect myself from all these nasty, noisy and smelly vehicles.<\/p>\n

After some research I found that they are called guard stones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is an interesting list of guard stones<\/a> in various places in France. They can be found in Britain too<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This is the picture: a huge Stone vase in the park in the old regal town of Saint Germain en Laye taken on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Color Photography"","block_context":{"text":"Color Photography","link":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/category\/photography\/color-photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130608-101210.jpg?fit=865%2C718&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130608-101210.jpg?fit=865%2C718&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130608-101210.jpg?fit=865%2C718&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130608-101210.jpg?fit=865%2C718&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":39,"url":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/2007\/07\/16\/blois\/","url_meta":{"origin":6634,"position":3},"title":"a mediaeval house in Blois, in the Loire Valley","author":"Yann Gourvennec","date":"July 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my latest watercolour.\u00a0 In this post I have represented the three stages of its completion.\u00a0 The subject is one of the oldest mansions in the city of Blois, in the Loire valley, France. The mansion is situated at the top of a hill opposite the cathedral overlooking the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Watercolor"","block_context":{"text":"Watercolor","link":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/category\/watercolor-art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"premi\u00e8re phase d'aquarellage de la rue Pierre de Blois","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.online.fr\/peintures\/etudes\/bloglopierredebloisphase1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9844,"url":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/2021\/11\/06\/remarkable-houses\/","url_meta":{"origin":6634,"position":4},"title":"Remarkable houses in the Ari\u00e8ge","author":"Yann Gourvennec","date":"November 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Remarkable houses abound in the Ariege, in the Pyrenees. This is especially the case for Saint Lizier, on top of the beautiful 12th-century cloister (above), as in the picture below with this strange bodiless character. 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Playing hide and seek with Saint Peter (in Caen) The first time I visited Caen, in Normandy, 40 years ago to the day (pronounced k\u0252\u0303, k\u0251\u02d0 n\u2009\u2013\u2009don\u2019t miss this hilarious YouTube video). Caen was home to William\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Black and White photos"","block_context":{"text":"Black and White photos","link":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/category\/photography\/black-and-white-photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/52833138397_6073c4225b_k.webp?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/52833138397_6073c4225b_k.webp?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/52833138397_6073c4225b_k.webp?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/52833138397_6073c4225b_k.webp?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/antimuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/50687136082_b6d5db16c6_6k-e1608447379490.jpg?fit=900%2C351&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18178,"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions\/18178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antimuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}