Perched atop a limestone cliff, the fortress stands out compellingly against the skyline.
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Thousands of onlookers attended, including King Charles himself.Ĭhateau Hautefort – recreating the scenes of King Louis’s death in a movie simulation. This was a landmark battle as it would be the last judicial duel ever to be allowed by a French king. But if Carrouges won, then justice would have been fairly served on a rapist. If Le Gris won the battle, leaving his opponent fatally savaged, then it would indicate his innocence – and, as a false accuser, Marguerite would then be burnt at the stake. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a teenage boy who’d been plunged prematurely onto the throne at the tender age of 11 and was struggling with the responsibility, Charles VI constructed a quite primitive alternative to a court appeal. After courts dismissed the allegations, an increasingly desperate Carrouges headed straight to the king to demand a retrial. A prominent French Knight, Jean de Carrouges, challenged former friend Jacques Le Gris to a duel to the death for the honour of his wife, Marguerite, who claimed that Le Gris had raped her. The original battle of blows that the film is based on took place in 1386, in the midst of the Hundred Years War. Just a month before lockdown was first announced, back when coronavirus was little more than a distant threat in a scarcely known Chinese city, stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, along with a Hollywood cast almost as large as the entire population of the village they were filming in, descended on Beynac-et-Cazenac to start reliving the derring-do of medieval history for Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel. The scene is the quintessential medieval throwback yet this is no vieux France – this is Hollywood sur Dordogne! It’s a languid day in this rural riverside village, with barges gently gliding along the water beneath a majestic clifftop castle, when suddenly two men leap out of the shadows, draw swords and challenge each other to a deadly duel.
Chloe Govan reveals the Dordogne Valley’s showbiz side, as she explores what’s new for visitors in 2021 in a location where modern and medieval mix…ĭordogne is renowned as the land of 1001 châteaux but for a moment, thanks to an infamous duel, our eyes are fixed firmly on just one.
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