LVSue

Chateaubriand Jacques Cartier

cmt

Yes. Your turn, LVSue.

LVSue

Great clues, cmt! Bear with me all because I'm just joining this game (and you happened to hit me with one of my favorites, St. Malo)

Bull-headed man who built a homemade wonder (full name 15 letters; 10th letter the C in Chateaubriand).

It was initially scorned by the public, but came to be much admired by artists and thinkers such as _ _ _ _ _ (first name beginning with A) _ _ _ _ _ _

cmt

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yk

Topping for other players.
Maybe a hint, LVSue?

grandmere

LVSue, you say "full name" is 15 letters; could you give us the break down of how many in first name, last name, plz?

cmt

Because it was apparently all one word, I thought maybe it was the name of invention that had 15 letters.

111op

It's the invention that has 15 letters?

Maybe I'll look at it again later.

111op

Hm.... I read this again and I guess it's not clear what has 15 letters.

cmt

LVSue will need to tell us. In context, it seems like it should be the name, except that it's unusual for someone, except for the ancients, to be known by only one name, and even more unusual for it to be so long. If it's the name of the invention, it could be a long technical name that is customarily shortened.

LVSue

Sorry, I'm out of town and don't get much chance to check. By full name, I meant first & last: first 9 letters, second the rest (beginning with C).

It's in France.

LVSue

And it's not an invention. It's something you travel to see. (a sight, if you will)

cmt

Oh, not at all what I was thinking. Someone will get it.

111op

My reaction is that it's a castle. But it's probably wrong.

cmt

It's that "homemade" description that puzzles me, because it's hard to apply it to architecture.

111op

You're right. I think that my reading skills are just really deteriorating -- when I saw LVSue's clarification, I thought it was something castle. Then I realized that she wrote first and last names, so the combined 15 letters was the name of the person.

I think that I'm just reading whatever I want to be reading into what other people are writing.

LVSue

Nonetheless, 111op, you're on the right track. Yes, his whole name takes 15 letters, but his "construction" is called the P----- I---- du (his profession) C----- (his last name). It is quite a sight to see! (I'm home again)

111op

Could this be Alexander Calder?

But I don't see what the homemade wonder is.

Also the profession is sculptor and it doesn't start with "L." I was thinking the first word is Palais. Don't see how all this fits together.

cmt

Since LVSue said you were on the right track (with thinking it was a castle), maybe the name of his construction, which starts with p - - - - - starts with the word "palais" (somewhat like castle). I can't guess further than that, but since Calder fits, maybe you can proceed from there to figure out the rest.

cmt

Oh, you said that already. But where do you see an L in the clue? I missed that.