MEETING THE ARTS LA FLECHE - FRANCE

March 7 th to March 13th 2016

Who am I?

Introduce yourself as you like (classic, original, with photos, selfies, collages, drawings, rebus…)

The name of the city - In English “the arrow”- was most probably derived from Latin fixa, peg, as a reference to an early settlement built on piles on the Loir. The first lord of La Flèche was Jean de Beaugency, who built in the 12th century a fortified castle surrounded with moats. Until the 17th century, La Flèche remained a village of lesser importance.

The high quality of teaching in La Flèche is reflected by the list of famous people who were educated in the Prytanée such as the philosoph René Descartes (1596-1650. The city had only one barber, two billiards and one café. The social life was ruled by several convents which imposed the cult of the Blessed Virgin, and the city was nicknamed La Sainte-Flèche.

La Flèche – Sarthe – Pays de La Loire

La Flèche - 16,900 inhabitants - is a sous-prefecture of the department of Sarthe, located on the river Loir (not to be confused with Loire), 45 kms from Angers and from Le Mans.

Hélie de la Flèche, Count of Maine, married his daughter Gremburge to Count Foulques of Anjou. Their son was Geoffroy Plantagenet, father of Henri II Plantagenet, the founder of the Anglo-Angevin Empire.

In 1540, Françoise d'Alençon, Lord of La Flèche, married Charles de Bourbon-Vendôme; their son Antoine de Bourbon (1518-1562) married Jeanne d'Albret (1528-1572) and was crowned king of Navarra in 1555. Antoine and Jeanne had a son, Henri (1553-1610), later known as king Henri III of Navarra (1572-1610) and Henri IV of France (1589-1610). The good fortune of La Flèche was due to Henri IV. It is said that he was conceived in La Flèche. Wherever Henri was conceived, he spent a part of his youth in La Flèche and seems to have enjoyed his stay there.

In 1603, when king of France, Henri founded a Royal College in La Flèche administrated by the Jesuits. The College housed in 1625 1,500 students. Although the College was religious, its boisterous students disrupted the quite life of the small city: a long conflict opposed the students, supported by the Fathers, to the military governor of the city, who wanted to forbid them catching frogs in the moats of the city. This episode is known as la guerre des grenouilles (the frog war). In 1764, the Jesuits were expelled from France. The College was transformed into a College for Cadets, preparing them for the entry to the Ecole Militaire in Paris. It was named in 1808 Prytanée Militaire Impérial, and is known today as Prytanée Militaire de La Flèche. Today, the students, known as brutions, prepare in the Prytanée the entry to the High Military Colleges.

The collector of the taille, Jérôme Le Royer de la Dauversière (1597-1659) was a pious man. Upset by the misery experienced by the peasants in the region of La Flèche and the ignorance of God experienced by the Indians in Canada, he organized the emigration of 278 men, 45 women and children and 3 nuns to Canada, from 1640 to 1659. The emigrants sailed from the Port Luneau, built on the Loir and active until 1914, in local flat-bottom ships called futreaux. They reached Nantes and La Rochelle and sailed to Canada. On 18 May 1642, emigrants from La Flèche founded Ville Marie, later renamed Montréal. oiloloilolo

Sources http://www.crwflags.com/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

The poet Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset (1709-1777) was exiled from his city of Amiens to La Flèche by the Jesuits because he had published satirical poems deemed licentious. He took revenge in describing La Flèche as follows:

Un climat assez agréable A climate fairly nice De petits bois assez mignons Small woods fairly lovely Un petit vin assez potable A small wine fairly acceptable De petits concerts assez bons Small concerts fairly good Un petit monde assez passable A small world fairly tolerable La Flèche pourrait etre aimable La Flèche could be pleasant S'il était de belles prisons If there were pleasant prisons

Marie Pape-Carpentier (1815-1878) was a pioneer in teaching young children and founded in La Flèche the first elementary school in France. She was also the first woman to give a public lecture in the Sorbonne University in Paris. La Flèche is the birth city of Paul Balluat d'Estournelles de Constant, one of the founders of the International Court of Justice in La Hague, awarded the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1909. The musician Léo Delibes (1836-1891), known for the comic opera Lakmé and the ballets Sylvia and Coppélia, was born in the village of Saint-Germain-du-Val, incorporated into the municipality of La Flèche in 1965. The zoological park of Tertre Rouge was opened near La Flèche by Jacques Bouillault in 1971. La Fleche Zoo allows guests to sleep in lodges next to polar bears, wolves … in one of eight three-star cabins

La Flèche has been twinned with

Obernkirchen – Germany since 1968

Saint Lambert – Canada since 1971

Chippenham – Great Britain since 1989

Markala – Mali since 2002

LA FLECHE

OUR HIGH SCHOOL

Estournelles de Constant welcomes about 1, 500 students in 3 educations: general, technical and vocational. They are from 14 to 20 or so and enter the high school after Year 10. In the vocational part of our high school, teenagers can study for 3 years:

- Electronics - Electrical engineering - Production engineering - Production line operation - Business Studies - Administrative Management - Customer Center and Client Welcoming

They all take an exam “Baccalauréat Professionnel”. At the end of their vocational training, they can either work or enter higher education schools such as BTEC training, university…

SELF GYMNASIUM STADIUM

VOCATIONAL

TEACHING

WORKSHOPS

GENERAL AND TECHNICAL TEACHING

GENERALTECHNICALTEA

CAFETERIA

BOARDING SCHOOL

HEADMASTER OFFICES MEETING ROOM BODY BUILDING ROOM

MAKING FRIENDS….

How do you say in…?

ENGLISH SPANISH ITALIAN POLISH LATVIAN FRENCH

Hello

Nice to meet you

Good bye

See you soon

Have a nice day

Thank you

Please

xxxxx / Kiss

Find a European friend who… and write his/ her name.

speaks 3 languages

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plays music

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dances ballets, …

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paints people, landscapes,…

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acts theatre plays

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sings in a choir

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takes photos

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often goes to museums

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reads mangas

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plays sport

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writes poems, plays…

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sculpts

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likes going to movies

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sometimes goes abroad

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often visits exhibitions…

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TRANSNATIONAL PLANNING SCHEDULE

MONDAY MARCH 7 TUESDAY MARCH 8 WEDNESDAY MARCH 9 THURSDAY MARCH 10 FRIDAY MARCH 11 SATURDAY MARCH 12

8.30

WELCOME TO

ESTOURNELLES DE

CONSTANT HIGH

SCHOOL

Coffee and French pastries

9.30

VISIT OUR HIGH

SCHOOL

Students visit our school and

our workshops.

10.45

TRANSNATIONAL

MEETING

Schedule of the week

8.30 – 10.00

TRANSNATIONAL

MEETING

Transnational teachers

Activity 19 to activity 21

Activities 2 – 7 – 9 - 16

10.00 – 12.00

ART WORKSHOPS

8:00

LE MANS

Teachers and students

LA CITE PLANTAGENET

old town (Roman, middle

ages building)

PLANTAGENET MUSEUM

8.30

MALICORNE

3 groups-Only host students

and teachers

9.30 – 10.45

CHINA EXHIBITIONS

Gr A

WORKSHOP Gr B

Painting on a china plate

EARTHENWARE Gr C

Exhibitions

10.45 – 12.15

CHINA EXHIBITIONS

Gr C

WORKSHOPS Gr A

Painting on a china plate

EARTENWARE Gr B

Exhibitions

8:00

SAUMUR

LES TROGLODYTES

10.00

MOULIN DE LA

BRUERE

12.15 LUNCH AT

SCHOOL

12.00 LUNCH AT SCHOOL 12.00 PACKED LUNCH 12.30 PACKED LUNCH 12.00 PACKED LUNCH 12.30 PICNIC WITH

STUDENTS, FAMILIES

AND TEACHERS

14.00

VISITING LA FLECHE

LE PRYTANEE

16.00

CITY HALL

17.30 END OF THE DAY

14.00

LA HALLE AU BLE

16.00

TRANSNATIONAL

MEETING

Transnational teachers

Planning activities

17.30 END OF THE DAY

14:00

VISITING LE MANS

THE CIRCUIT

THE MUSEUM 24 HOURS

old and race cars

17.00 END OF THE DAY

14.00 – 15.45

CHINA EXHIBITIONS

Gr B

WORKSHOP Gr C

Painting on a china plate

EARTENWARE Gr A

Exhibitions

16.45 END OF THE DAY

14.00

VISIT OF ACKERMAN

CELLARS Artistic exhibitions in the

cellars

17.30 END OF THE DAY

DINNER WITH THE

PARTNER TEACHERS

15.00

FREE TIME

(City center – Walk at La

Monnerie Lakes –

etc…)

STUDENT MOBILITIES PLANNING SCHEDULE

MONDAY MARCH 7 TUESDAY MARCH 8 WEDNESDAY MARCH 9 THURSDAY MARCH 10 FRIDAY MARCH 11 SATURDAY MARCH 12

8.30

WELCOME TO

ESTOURNELLES DE

CONSTANT HIGH

SCHOOL

Coffee and French pastries

9.30

VISIT OUR HIGH

SCHOOL

Students visit our school and

our workshops.

10.45

MOBILITIES MEETING

Sharing activities

8.30 – 10.00

MOBILITITES MEETING

Sharing Activities

10.00 – 12.00

ART WORKSHOPS

8:00

LE MANS

Teachers and students

LA CITE PLANTAGENET

old town (Roman, middle

ages building)

PLANTAGENET MUSEUM

8.30

MALICORNE

3 groups-Only host students

and teachers

9.30 – 10.45

CHINA EXHIBITIONS

Gr A

WORKSHOP Gr B

Painting on a china plate

EARTHENWARE Gr C

Exhibitions

10.45 – 12.15

CHINA EXHIBITIONS

Gr C

WORKSHOPS Gr A

Painting on a china plate

EARTENWARE Gr B

Exhibitions

8:00

SAUMUR

LES TROGLODYTES

10.00

MOULIN DE LA

BRUERE

12.15 LUNCH AT

SCHOOL

12.00 LUNCH AT SCHOOL 12.00 PACKED LUNCH 12.30 PACKED LUNCH 12.00 PACKED LUNCH 12.30 PICNIC WITH

STUDENTS, FAMILIES

AND TEACHERS

14.00

VISITING LA FLECHE

LE PRYTANEE

16.00

CITY HALL

17.30 END OF THE DAY

DINNER AT FAMILIES’

14.00

LA HALLE AU BLE

16.00

MOBILITITES MEETING

Sharing Activities

17.30 END OF THE DAY

DINNER AT FAMILIES’

14:00

VISITING LE MANS

THE CIRCUIT

THE MUSEUM 24 HOURS

old and race cars

17.00 END OF THE DAY

DINNER AT FAMILIES’

14.00 – 15.45

CHINA EXHIBITIONS

Gr B

WORKSHOP Gr C

Painting on a china plate

EARTENWARE Gr A

Exhibitions

16.45 END OF THE DAY

DINNER AT FAMILIES’

14.00

VISIT OF ACKERMAN

CELLARS

Artistic exhibitions in the

cellars

17.30 END OF THE DAY

DINNER AT FAMILIES’

15.00

FREE TIME

(City center – Walk to La

Monnerie Lakes –

etc…)

MONDAY, MARCH 7th - 2016

LE PRYTANEE – LA FLECHE Tick off the correct answer(s)

The Prytanée is a public private military school.

This school was created by Henry IV Napoleon Estournelles in 1604.

Its students are nicknamed The Lions The Frogs The Brutions They have the reputation of a soft fighting slow spirit. This school offers secondary education primary education nursery education prepatory classes

They were famous students René Descartes Carlos IV Léo Delibes Claude Chappe Michel Ángelo Prince Husein Bey Lech Walesa Raimonds Vējonis Robert Schuman CONTEST Imagine the coat of arms of “MEETING THE ARTS”

http://www.familytreesandcrests.com/heraldry-symbols.htm

Meaning of colors Gold Respect, virtue, generosity, understanding

Silver Wisdom, innocence, sincerity, peace

Red Eagerness to serve his country, warrior

Blue Strength, truth, loyalty

Black Grief, resistance

Green Freedom, beauty, joy, hope

Purple Majesty, justice

Orange Rewarding ambition

Brown Victory, Perseverance in the battle

Match the correct monument with its name

Lakmé

La Halle au Blé

Henry IV

Le Moulin de la Bruère

Le Pavillon Fouquet de la Varenne

Le Château des Carmes

Le Monastère de la visitation

Coppélia

Le Prytanée Militaire

Le Moulin des quatre saisons

WEDNESDAY MARCH 9th – 2016

LE MANS

Le Mans, labeled "City of Art and History", contains at its heart a hidden gem: the Plantagenet City. Twenty hectares of cobbled streets, inhabited houses in pan-de-timber and Renaissance hotels, sheltered a Roman wall and overhung of a cathedral. The Saint-Julien cathedral, half Roman, half Gothic, is also one of the largest in France (134m long 5000m2). Le Mans, thanks to its rich heritage, recovery and quality entertainment is a candidate for World Heritage (UNESCO classification.) The link of the Plantagenets and Le Mans began on June 17, 1128 with the marriage in the Cathedral of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou and Maine and Matilda, widow of the Emperor of Germany. Granddaughter of William the Conqueror, the "Empress" is the heiress of the kingdom of England and the Duchy of Normandy. Their son Henry was born in 1133 in the palace of Count Mans (current City Hall) and was baptized in Saint-Julien Cathedral. In 1152, Henry married Eleanor of Aquitaine and is crowned King of England in 1154. Maine is then caught in the conflict between the kingdoms of England and France. Their son Richard the Lionheart leaving for the Holy Land, married Berengaria of Navarre. Widowed Queen Berengaria obtained in 1204, the management of Le Mans city and the surrounding territory. She will live 25 years in the Count and the royal palace. She died and was buried into the Abbey of Epau she founded. Guess when it was built…

Prehistoric If you put your finger into its “nave”, you will have a lot of children!

1st century You can find a newt on its

floor.

III th century Its color comes from a stone called “Roussard”

IX th century William the Conqueror and the Plantagenets lived there.

From 1060 to 1430 Half Gothic, half Roman

XVth century The hangman was said to wipe his hands on the pillar of his house!!

How many anagrams using the letters in “races” can you find?

5-letter words

4-letter words 3- letter words 2- letter words

CONTEST Imagine a tee-shirt representing the 24-hour car race.

THE CIRCUIT

THE MUSEUM 24 HOURS

FRIDAY MARCH 11 SAUMUR

The first view of Saumur is the view of the overlooking Château. Built during on the XIVth century for the Ducs d’Anjou, it becomes the house of the governors of the town, then a jail, before being bought by the town in 1906.

VISIT OF THE ACKERMAN CELLARS

Since the Middle-Ages, epicurean values and the art of living have been an essential part of the Loire’s civilization. As a result, the House Ackerman promotes art or rather the arts, as they are a source of insparation, emotion ans sharing. This is not surprising as the entity is the forerunner in Loire Valley fine sparkling wines and its expertise is an art in itself.

From http://visite.ackerman.fr/ What are they for…? water champagne (2) white wine black wine cherry

1 2 3 4 5 6

Estate by Guiseppe Arcimboldo – 1590

1 - _________________________

2- __________________________

4 - ________________________

5 - _________________________

6- _________________________

How many vegetables and fruit can you name?

EXPRESS YOURSELF ON YOUR STAY IN FRANCE

(drawing, poem, collage, photos,…)