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Les potagers de Wallonie by Sabine CARTUYVELS and Dominique GUERRIER-DUBARLE – Château de Bénouville
The vegetable gardens of Wallonia
Vegetable plots – those nourishing gardens that date back to the very beginnings of our era, bearing witness to humble day-to-day labour, where the love of work well done, the subconscious quest for perfection and great knowledge of plant life become one, are revived to become the gardens of the 21st century. The gardens of the poor, somewhat fallen into oblivion, destroyed or transformed without concern… are being brought back to live, via in-depth societal transformation. They have remained those nourishing gardens that provide us with the healthy vegetables we have watched grow, day after day. They are the symbol of sustainable development, of a development that must be perceived, not only from an economic and environmental point of view, but also from a social and heritage-related angle. Convivial, joyful, sometimes lush and floral, the vegetable garden is a refuge, if not a genuine paradise. Within these four walls, encounters, the transmission of knowledge and social links are nurtured and preserved. Over and above the history of these gardens, the aforementioned aspects, through which heritage is omnipresent, will be brought to light over this gourmet midday break.
Sabine Cartuyvels
After twenty years as a bookseller, Sabine Cartuyvels studied for a DESS (Postgraduate Specialised Study Diploma) in ‘Historic gardens, heritage and landscapes’ at the National School of Architecture in Versailles. Then for ten years, she joined the educational team for the same diploma which, in the meantime, had been transformed into a Master’s Degree. She also obtained a DEA (postgraduate diploma), directed by Daniel Rabreau at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Among her notable publications, ‘Délicates missives. Lettres d’Antoine Dezallier d’Argenville à Marie-Gabrielle de Fuligny-Damas, Comtesse de Rochechouart (1755-1756)’ (Delicate missives. Letters from Antoine Dezallier d’Argenville to Marie-Gabrielle de Fuligny-Damas, Countess of Rochechouart (1755-1756)) published in the magazine Polia (n°1), along with an article entitled, ‘Jardin’ (Garden), published in the work ‘1740, Un abrégé du monde. Savoirs et collections autour de Dezallier d’Argenville’ (1740, a précis of the world. Knowledge and Collections on Desallier d’Argenville), directed by Anne Lafont (INHA, Paris, 2012), including the original discovery of the map of Argenville, currently kept at the Musée Carnavalet. Sabine Cartuyvels also participated in the colloquium ‘L’héritage d’André le Nôtre’. Les jardins à la française entre tradition et modernité” (André Le Nôtre’s legacy. Formal gardens, from tradition to modernity) under Marco Martella’s scientific direction in 2013, in Sceaux, along with a communication on ‘La Théorie et la Pratique du Jardinage. La diffusion du modèle français au XVIIIe siècle- (Gardening theory and practice. Dissemination of the French model in the 18th century). The same year, she took part in the international colloquium ‘Thinking sculpture’, organised by Frédérique Brinkerink and Gaylord Brouhot, via a contribution entitled ‘Souvenirs romains, sources égyptiennes. Des projets de fontaines d’Edme Bouchardon dans La Théorie et la Pratique du Jardinage, 1747’ (Roman memories, Egyptian sources. Edme Bouchardon’s fountain projects in The Theory and Practice of Gardening, 1747). She also produced a historic study for the King Baudouin Foundation on the subject of the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels and published an article on the same subject in the magazine Polia (n°2), in collaboration with Dominique Guerrier-Dubarle.
Dominique Guerrier-Dubarle
Dominique Guerrier-Dubarle is an agronomy and horticulture engineer. She obtained a DESS (Postgraduate Specialised Study Diploma) in ‘Historic gardens, heritage and landscapes’ at the National School of Architecture in Versailles. Her fields of competence range from heritage protection to territorial development, via writing. She is director of the agency Écrits et Paysages, established in Huy in Belgium.