Trois Beaux Villages: Gerberoy

Our next beau village, still on the way to Calais, was Gerberoy, the prettiest of the three...

But first, in the tiny hamlet of Fleur la Foret, this old church...some stone, some
flint, some brick...

The various additions and extensions dated...here, 1599...1648 was down the wall
a bit

Finally we got to Gerberoy, passing through forests, hills, even
vineyards, all nearly within sight of the Channel

Main street Gerberoy

The market and mairie upstairs

Villa des roses indeed

City center in the market

Ancient vine

Everywhere, roses

Village lane

Upstairs to the collegiale, the parish church, 11th century origins, warrants its own
post (next)

The place is so filled with roses and gardens largely because
of the minor (=we'd never heard of him) Impressionist
painter Henri le Sidaner, who planted the place so he could
paint it

A bit of his garden, the church steeple on the right

The usual admixture of Romanesque and Gothic, side by
side

And no end to the roses

Ancient wall, pond with large goldfish, half-timbered dwelling

And more roses

And others

And when you're not smelling the roses, there's a fete and a wine tasting...in the
vineyard; and beautiful countryside

Indeed