Pierre Beaumirault
The Pierre Beaumirault is a menhir near the village of Égly in Bruyères-le-Châtel , in the center of the Essonne department in France .
It stands fenced and crooked on an artificial peninsula that was created on the south bank of the Orge by creating a reservoir, and has been registered as a Monument historique since 1978 . It consists of a roughly triangular Fontainbleu quartz sandstone block, about 1.9 m high, 2.0 m wide and 0.70 m high, 0.25 m thick, and is at least 1.5 m deep in the ground.
The menhir from the Neolithic Age is mentioned on maps from 1619 under the name Pierre du Beau Miroir ( German "Stone of the beautiful mirror" ), which was later deformed to Beaumirault or Mirou.
According to Georges Courty (1875–1953), the menhir is associated with the legend of Gargantua .
literature
- John Peek: Inventaire des mégalithes de France, vol. 4: Région parisienne , CNRS, Paris 1975, ISBN 2-222-01772-6 , p. 245.
- Alain Bénard: Les mégalithes de l'Essonne , Société historique et archéologique de l'Essonne et du Hurepoix, Paris 2012, ISSN 1157-0261, p. 25
Web links
- Menhir dit la Pierre Beaumirault in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description (French)
- Description, image (English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 51 ″ N , 2 ° 11 ′ 53.9 ″ E