{"id":17971,"date":"2025-07-23T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flaugergues.com\/a-singular-object-from-the-chateaus-collections\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:44:25","slug":"a-singular-object-from-the-chateaus-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flaugergues.com\/en\/a-singular-object-from-the-chateaus-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"A singular object from the ch\u00e2teau&#8217;s collections!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Children&#8217;s Rifle<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>This small piston-operated rifle probably dates from the early 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. It features an interesting stock carved with the head of a bearded Indian wearing a feather headdress. The two eyes are inlaid and the upper part stands out against a diamond-shaped background. A flower, inscribed in a circle, is also engraved on one side of the stock. A ring indicates the presence of a leather strap, now missing. The locks are engraved with foliage motifs<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> and each bears the initials E.D.     <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1082\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flaugergues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17968\" style=\"width:575px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flaugergues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image1-edited.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/www.flaugergues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image1-edited-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.flaugergues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Image1-edited-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1082px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Decorated in this way, the object evokes the wild, untouched territories of North America, traversed by coureurs des bois in the days of the French-English conflict, but also echoes the tales of Fran\u00e7ois-Ren\u00e9 de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) and James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851).<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wood type: cherry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Length: 86.5 cm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provenance: de Saizieu family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<p><em><a id=\"_ftn1\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>. Ornamental motif in the form of a bent branch embellished with leaves. <\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hunting in Flaugergues<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>Built at the end of the 17<sup>th <\/sup>century, Ch\u00e2teau de Flaugergues was conceived as a country residence, allowing its owners to benefit from healthy air, greenery and space, which the family mansion on rue de la Loge offered only inadequately.<\/p>\n\n<p>A privilege of the nobility under the Ancien R\u00e9gime, hunting was at once a sport, a form of recreation and a social marker.<\/p>\n\n<p>Hunting is also a way of communing with nature, and in this case, for a child, through the figure of the Indian, a call to dream and discover faraway lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Children&#8217;s Rifle This small piston-operated rifle probably dates from the early 19th century. 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