Du Guesclin by Pauline and Anaïs

Bertrand DuGuesclin was a famous war leader. He lived in the Middle-Age, when

France and England were at war.

He was born in Brittany in 1320. After having fought in France, in Spain, he

helped the French king Charles V to send the English back home.

At the end of his life, he came to our region, he set free a village,

Châteauneuf de Randon.

It was in winter.He was hot and he drank cold water.

Duguesclin’s fountain near Chateauneuf

He died as a result.

His soldiers took his body back to the capital

Le Puy en Velay

At that time, transport was At that time, transport was slow, slow,

it began to rot. it began to rot.

So they left his guts in le So they left his guts in le Puy.Puy.

MontferrandIn Montferrand, In Montferrand,

they boiled his body and burried they boiled his body and burried his flesh.his flesh.

His body was taken back to Paris.

Finally his skeleton has been buried with

the king in Paris,

and his heartwas sent to

Brittany were he was born.