| Orleans (trad.) arranged, sung
and played by David Crosby Orleans,
Beaugency,
Notre-Dame-de-Clery,
Vendome. Vendome.
A French may recall the song from childhood, often sung as a
round
The four of these historic cathedral towns lie in a region known as
la Douce France (Gentle France)
Here, orchards and wheatfields are punctuated by a remarkable
assortment of sights: ornate hilltop chateaux, troglodyte homes
cathedral gargoyles that have gaped at 10 generations of worshipers
500-year-old windmills, and friendly, delightful villages that
few Americans ever travel to. It offers all the charm of France
In Beaugency is the land of the "other" Loire river:
Le Loire, smaller and less celebrated than elsewhere
You get to a very different world
Awake to the sound of a distant carillon chiming out of this song
once Joan of Arc's called to arms
Now you understand why Vendome is mentioned twice.
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