Do you intend to come and look at the Bayeux tapestry?

mercalia · Post by **mercalia** » 18 Jan 2018, 2:23pm

"The epic portrayal of the Norman invasion of 1066 is bound for Britain"

I wonder why now? any political motive? That we are "really" French? and Brexit a nonsense?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/17/the-bayeux-tapestry-historic-yes-but-is-it-any-good?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=260850&subid=23601318&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

al_yrpal · Post by **al_yrpal** » 18 Jan 2018, 2:30pm

No, seen it in Bayeaux and we have a great replica nearby in Reading Museum

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mjr · Post by **mjr** » 18 Jan 2018, 2:41pm

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... an-britain says we don't yet know where it would be hosted and anyway, it's mainly more about history of the nobility than anything relevant to the common man, centring on a royal whose line arguably died out in 1134 and has been fudged since 1087, isn't it?

Cyril Haearn · Post by **Cyril Haearn** » 18 Jan 2018, 2:54pm

I have already seen it, in Bayeux c1972

What could the UK lend to France in return?

tatanab · Post by **tatanab** » 18 Jan 2018, 3:01pm

No. I've seen it twice already in Bayeaux, early 1970s and about 2005.

Ben@Forest · Post by **Ben@Forest** » 18 Jan 2018, 3:05pm

tatanab wrote:No. I've seen it twice already in Bayeaux, early 1970s and about 2005.

I see you and raise you 1987 and 2016 :wink:

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roubaixtuesday · Post by **roubaixtuesday** » 18 Jan 2018, 3:11pm

That we are "really" French? and Brexit a nonsense?

Interestingly, the Normans were Vikings, and not French at all.

Literally Norse Men.

mjr · Post by **mjr** » 18 Jan 2018, 3:27pm

Cyril Haearn wrote:I have already seen it, in Bayeux c1972

What could the UK lend to France in return?

although he often makes an exhibition of himself in Strasbourg already, doesn't he?

mercalia · Post by **mercalia** » 18 Jan 2018, 3:29pm

BrianFox wrote:
That we are "really" French? and Brexit a nonsense?

Interestingly, the Normans were Vikings, and not French at all.

Literally Norse Men.

well if you want to split hairs - the French were visigoths? so not French at all. came down from central europe, pushed down into europe by the movemtn of other peoples?

Tangled Metal · Post by **Tangled Metal** » 18 Jan 2018, 3:54pm

Norse men who settled in France and gave service to the existing French nobles on the battlefields of believe. Became accepted and integrated into the society of the day.

Ppls in Britain were germanic at the time and remained so afterwards but it all got mixed up with time and do we even know if we're of saxon or Norman stock these days?

Bayeux tapestry is in storage. They show a replica in the museum for quite some time. So tbh I doubt anyone has seen the actual tapestry.

Currently the bayeux museum is shut for renovation so nothing is on show. They've not let the tapestry move since it was shown in Paris at the end of the WWII. However a British museum curator saw a chance and put in a formal request to borrow the tapestry. President Macron has authorised the lending of it but it's not his decision to make but the mayor of Bayeux. No decision has been made so far I believe.

Macron could be using it as good pr for his visit. Sorry he Is using it as good pr for his visit. Probably knowing full well it will never leave France.

BTW consider which tapestry is potentially coming over here. The real one that's getting towards 1000 years old or the replica? Bear in mind Himmler and the Nazis tried to waltz off with it but due to it being so fragile they never got it away. You think France is really going to send it over here?

If it's the replica coming over then why bother? There's perfectly good copy at Hastings I believe.

One final point. The actual tapestry shows more than just nobles fighting it out. It shows a lot more from the wider society of the day including ppl about their day to day activities (farming). It also shows quite openly what in today's sensibilities would be war crimes. That's why some claim it's made in the UK or the women making it were French but putting subversive images in it as a kind of protest. Whatever the reality it shows more than just the nobility.

Personally it's better to see a replica in the museum at bayeux not in a UK museum.

thirdcrank · Post by **thirdcrank** » 18 Jan 2018, 4:13pm

Shades of "Allo, allo" and the picture of the fallen madonna...

Ben@Forest · Post by **Ben@Forest** » 18 Jan 2018, 4:19pm

Tangled Metal wrote:Bayeux tapestry is in storage. They show a replica in the museum for quite some time. So tbh I doubt anyone has seen the actual tapestry.

Are you sure about that? I've seen it twice, most recently in autumn 2016. On neither occasion was there anything to say it's a replica. It's also kept in low-light, controlled humidity conditions and you evidently cannot touch it. I also think I read that they strictly control the number of people snaking round the tapestry so the humidity regulation isn't affected by too many bodies emitting heat and sweat.

Finally I saw it in 1987 too. I can't swear to it but I think it was in a completely different building then - but if so they must have moved it at least once in the last 30-odd years.

[XAP]Bob · Post by **[XAP]Bob** » 18 Jan 2018, 4:38pm

If it's displayed very locally I might - but I suspect I could look at it in more detail, and comfort, with a better description... if I looked online.

661-Pete · Post by **661-Pete** » 18 Jan 2018, 4:45pm

If I go, will I have to wear safety glasses? :lol:

Bonefishblues · Post by **Bonefishblues** » 18 Jan 2018, 4:49pm

Cyril Haearn wrote:I have already seen it, in Bayeux c1972

What could the UK lend to France in return?

Give 44.5M quid to strengthen our Borders on French soil, I hear...

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