Cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux
Gothic cathedral where a teenage duchess's wedding feast once reshaped medieval Europe.
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This guide to the Cathedrale Saint-Andre de Bordeaux turns on the twenty-fifth of July, eleven thirty-seven, when a thirteen-year-old duchess named Eleanor of Aquitaine said her vows beneath the west portal and then walked out to the biggest feast the city had ever thrown. It follows the wedding party across town to the Ombriere Palace, into hours of courses, poured wine and working minstrels, as a duchy the size of England changed hands over dinner. You'll hear what an ordinary bride was really being asked to carry that day. Bronze scallop shells still trace the pilgrim route past the same west front where it all began.
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