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Today, this is a place for walking, meeting, leisure activities for children, outdoor sports, discovery, serenity, etc.
In the past, it was a place where people lived, since the dawn of humanity. Its occupation since Neolithic times has been proven and it was an important place inhabited by the Celts. In fact, a Gallo-Roman graveyard dating from the 3rd century was discovered at the entrance to the woods, in a place known as ‘little paradise’.
As is often the case, man associates places where nature reigns as sacred. Over the centuries and owing to the spread of Christianity, a hermitage, a calvary and several votive chapels were added to the graveyard. It is no surprise then that it is called ‘Bois du Grand Bon Dieu’ (Woods of the Almighty God).
It is true that the place is quite magical with its majestic avenues resembling sylvan cathedrals, its vertiginous ravines, its strangely-shaped rocks rising up from the ground like forgotten sentinels…
With the arrival of spring, bluebells carpet the ground with a delicate lilac blue, in contrast with the tender green buds. The world is suddenly reversed: a blue ground… and a green sky. Nature takes us into the world of the unreal…
Martin Jeanmart.
