In the footsteps of La Fontaine

Depart from the town of Château-Thierry, latitude 49.0466300 (N 49° 2’ 48”), longitude 3.4001400 (E 3° 24’ 1”)

• Birthplace of Jean de La Fontaine

• The stop is imposed before this beautiful mansion, curious to enter to enter the world of literature. Where memories of childhood and dreams of adults mingle pleasantly. From the 17th to the present day the works exhibited in the birthplace converted into a museum give free rein to our imagination, just like the pretty garden at the back of the house.

• Round walk

• Let's take the walk in front of the former convent of the Cordeliers, the current media library, a true source of communication.

• Castle garden

• Through the walkway you will access a double staircase located behind the Town Hall by borrowing it you will climb on the Castle by the tower Bouillon. Inside imagine you archer a day.

• Tour du Roy

• From the esplanade, a superb panorama of the city of fables and the vineyard, take a dip from the tower, and dive into the birthplace of Jean de La Fontaine. In the distance, the American Monument stands out reminding of the hard fighting during the conflicts of the First World War. It may be by climbing to this hill that the 17th fabulist had the idea of ​​the fable "The coach and the fly"

• Mansion

• This hotel belonged to the fabulist's son.

• Hostel of the dial

La Fontaine met his friends here.

• Hospital

• "No more effort..." Hotel Dieu de Château-Dieu, the opener, the apothecary and its still, its kitchen, its dressers, 17 rooms around the sacred art. Claire last sister Augustine, automaton waiting for you peacefully busy to realize her work, the visit imposes information to the Office of Tourism.

• Middle School

There Jean de La Fontaine was studying.

• The chancery passage Maison Héricart

• Accommodation "key vacancy" but before the house would have belonged to Marie-Hericart after his separation from the fabulist.

• Market place

• Let's imagine Perette and his pot au lait come here to sell his fresh produce... the communal house gave way to cinema theater, a new town hall stands at the foot of the castle, the Protestant temple, and its superb stained glass window also memorial of World War I.

• Jean de La Fontaine statue - Marne bridge

• It is near the bridge at the foot of the statue of Jean de La Fontaine that the hare and turtle meet you. There is no point in running, you have to leave and we hope that this little urban walk has seduced you. See you soon for another urban walk.