Cluny was on the way to our next destination, Autun, so we dropped by. Its abbey was one of the greatest of the middle ages, whose leaders could intimidate kings and popes alike. The great church--the largest in Christendom until the present St. Peter's was built--was laid low, destroyed nearly entirely, by the Revolution. Atheists do bad things too. Rebecca and Rachel may remember Cluny as the site of France's national equestrian school. We visited in 1989.
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And on the way to Cluny was Macon, and the Rhone
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And the first of many beautiful chateaux
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From a book cover, this is what the great church looked
like at its height; really a hodge-podge...
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And here you are standing at the entrance to the narthex
of the great church
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Not much remains
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Ditto
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Just a transept tower or two; sic transit,
Gloria
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