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Poor Bluebeard, for whom in childhood we used to feel such awe, was a fool to this baron bold. There, a little in front of you, is the fortified village of Chamou, which in former years defended the eastern opening of Les Grand Ravins; also Lingou, an old citadel, three stories high, whose walls, now cracked and ivy bound, guarded them on the south.
The forest of La Madeleine, particularly full of ravines and dark thickets, small hamlets, and solitary houses, was overrun with these insatiable and remorseless brutes. Travellers had been devoured in the passes of La Goulotte, and mangled and torn in the ravines of Lingou. No one dared venture into the country when night approached.
Le Morvan during the Middle Ages Legendary horrors Forest of La Goulotte La Croix Chavannes La Croix Mordienne Hôtel de Chanty Château de Lomervo A French Bluebeard Citadel of Lingou. But I must return from my Andalusian belle to the rugged Le Morvan, a patriotic, but, in spite of the broken finger, by no means so captivating a subject.
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