Pierre du Fouret
The menhir Pierre du Fouret (also called Palet de Gargantua or Menhir von Gency ), classified as a Monument historique since 1889, is located near the D 922 (Rue de Vauréal 57) in the hamlet of Gency near Pontoise on the southern edge of the Val-d'Oise department in France .
The bright menhir , consisting of a 3.75 m high and 5.4 m wide soft sandstone slab with an average thickness of about 0.5 m, is associated with the legend of the Gargantua according to local folklore and is supposed to grow every year thereafter.
literature
- Paul de Mortillet: Les menhirs de Seine-et-Oise , L'Homme Préhistorique, 1904, p. 253
Web links
Commons : Menhir de Gency - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Menhir dit la Pierre-Fouret in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Description and picture (English)
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 33 " N , 2 ° 2 ′ 43.7" E