History – Program of the Bureau des guides de Bourges with, this Thursday evening, the story of a learned astrologer at the Maison des Associations

Celestial manifestations have always intrigued human beings. Some have even specialized in this study for a long time with the means of observation available to them at the time.

Astronomy has thus become a science and sky-watching scholars have therefore worked hard to explain the planets, their movements, their interactions. However, many observed celestial events remain mysteries.
The winter and spring cycle of the Bureau des guides de Bourges begins this Thursday with the story of Denis, a learned astrologer who will solve the enigma of an eclipse and who will be beheaded in Montmartre before reappearing in the Middle Ages as a specialist in angels.

The example of Liverpool, European Capital of Culture in 2008, dissected at the town hall of Bourges

The curious and regulars therefore have an appointment this Thursday at 7:15 p.m. at the Maison des Associations, Salle Jean-de-Berry for a little over an hour of explanations with Martine Chavot. “We generally have around twenty people who come,” explains Alain Giraud, guide from the heritage department, who also indicates that the pun on the theme came out of a preparatory meeting.

The next meetings are scheduled for December 13 with the theme Bourges in 40: facing disaster then the January 12 with Ecclesiastical and municipal vandalism in Bourges.

the February 7it will be What Buggers escaped; aborted urban projects. the March 16spotlight on the abbot Théophile Moreux: investigations into the celestial mysteries.
the April 11, Bourges ignites and is reborn from its ashes: eight centuries of fires and May 11 with Conjuring up fears: popular, religious, political beliefs…

Francois Lesbre