Comments on: Day Trip from Paris: A Compiègne-Pierrefonds Biking Excursion https://francerevisited.com/2018/04/daytrip-from-paris-compiegne-pierrefonds-biking-excursion/ Discover Travel Explore Encounter France and Paris Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gary Lee Kraut https://francerevisited.com/2018/04/daytrip-from-paris-compiegne-pierrefonds-biking-excursion/#comment-35474 Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:12:19 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=13615#comment-35474 In reply to Walter Judson Moore.

Thanks, Walter. It’s part of my Bicycle My France Revisited series.

]]> By: Walter Judson Moore https://francerevisited.com/2018/04/daytrip-from-paris-compiegne-pierrefonds-biking-excursion/#comment-35473 Fri, 06 Apr 2018 08:44:08 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=13615#comment-35473 Excellent commentary and writing. As always, you understand my obsession with the Bicycle Your France Guidebook series.

]]> By: Joanna Barouch https://francerevisited.com/2018/04/daytrip-from-paris-compiegne-pierrefonds-biking-excursion/#comment-35465 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 01:35:17 +0000 http://francerevisited.com/?p=13615#comment-35465 Francis Poulenc based his opera “Les Dialogues des Carmélites” on the true story of the 13 nuns of the convent at Compiegne and what happened to them during the Revolution. It’s a harrowing tale…and it precipitated the end of not only the Reign of Terror but the Revolution itself. Another little known fact is that one of Louis XV’s sisters was a nun in that convent but died prior to the Revolution.

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