The prehistoric cave just down the lane from my house now has a cool new website:

http://www.grottedusorcier.com/

If you're looking for yet another cave to visit, it's pretty interesting (though much smaller-scale than the well-known ones). A lot of work has been done here in the past 4-5 years since the old owner died. It's a UNESCO World Heritage site, which I didn't realize (I always just thought of it as the cave down the lane!).

La Grotte du Sorcier avec ou sans apprenti?

Sans, pour le moment, mais il y a toujours la possibilité que Goethe a passé par la grotte au 18ème siècle pour un peu
d'inspiration.

Il pourrait y <b>avoir</b> passé quelques jours, mais il <b>est</b> passé par la grotte.

Thanks for that StCirq, that's a great presentation. There's a lot of engraved prehistoric art near Paris (1,200+ recorded sites near the Forest of Fontainebleau) but very few of these sites have the wonderful animal images found in the Dordogne. La Grotte du Sorcier is on my list.

Who knew you could have a private owner of such a thing? Wish I were in that neighborhood some time.

French Mystique, are there sites near Paris open to the public?

Off topic, StCirq, are you coming to the Paris get-together next week?

Nikki,

None of the site locations are advertised to the public but they are all in the woods that people hike through so none is off limits to the public. The reason the locations of the sites are not made public is that it would expose them to vandalism beyond what many of them have already suffered through the centuries. I've found some on my own (I know what to look for) and I'm also a member of a rock art research group and we do field trips to visit sites.

Ack! I was trying to multitask - of course it's an être verb! Sorry about that.

Nikki, I think we have to put off our trip to France until April, maybe even May. I'm sorry to miss the festivities.

We will miss you.