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Chêne chapelle in Allouville-Bellefosse

Thousand-year-old oak tree

Like some­thing out of a fairy tale — (or Kee­bler elves com­mer­cial) — this ancient oak tree’s trunk is hol­lowed out is home to two small chapels, reached by a spi­ral stair­case sur­round­ing the truck. This, the old­est known tree in France, has lived through Louis XIV, the French Rev­o­lu­tion, Napoleon, Sarkozy, and amaz­ingly, is still standing.

Located in the small French farm­ing vil­lage of Allouville-Bellefosse France, accord­ing to local lore, the tree has grown in pace with the devel­op­ment of the French coun­try itself. Said to have begun grow­ing 1000 years ago dur­ing the reign of Charle­magne, and in 1035, William the Con­queror is sup­posed to have knelt at its base. While sci­en­tists say the tree is … the old­est known tree in France.

In the 1600s, dis­as­ter struck…interesting to read at Atlas Obscura

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Wikipedia reports poly­glot:
The Chêne chapelle is an oak tree located in Allouville-Bellefosse in Seine-Maritime, France.
The oak tree is between 800 and 1,200 years old. It is 15m high and its base has a cir­cum­fer­ence of 16m. Its hol­low trunk hosts two chapels, which were built there in 1669: Notre Dame de la Paix “Our Lady of Peace” and the Cham­bre de Ermite “Hermit’s room”. A spi­ral stair­case around the trunk pro­vides access to the chapels.

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