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M. Courbet. Fled from prison in Paris 1880, via his parents home in Ornans and then onto exile in the Swiss Jura. My route exactly. He wore peasant gear and an 'asyrian' beard, I'm wearing Haglofs. One of the few artists to come from a farming family.

Burial at Ornans

The location for Courbet's painting of his uncles funeral. Peasant life
as religious allegory. Revolutionary heresy that shot him to painting fame. It is also where Gustave's body was buried.

1848 (reprise)

Going in the opposite direction to Louis Philippe was Frederich Engels. At the height of the February revolution Engels lost his grip and went for a long walk to Burgundy. It was here that he discovered Chateau Margaux 1848, the classic Bordeaux.