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I woke up, ate the traditional New Years' Day lentil pottage, and just by accident had the fortune to catch a TV re-run of the early Louis de Funès classic Ni vu... ni connu...

Can any of the French here tell me or find out which lovely town it was filmed in? ('Montpaillard' is a fictious name, I take it.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun Jan 1st, 2006 at 08:31:16 AM EST
On http://www.l2tc.com/ (a website apparently designed to find film locations which I stumbled on), choose "recherche par film" on left-hand side, then type in the name in "mots du titre".

Results found:

  • in a private hotel of the Rue du Rempart (the prison scenes I think) in the village of Semur en Auxois (in the Department of Côte d'or, in Burgandy)
  • in the village of Braux (also in Côte d'or)
  • at the Canal de Bourgogne/Burgandy (fishing scene?)
  • at the Marigny le Cahouet castle.

ps: it was one of my favourite movies when I was a teenager, but I haven't seen it again since then
by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jan 1st, 2006 at 10:20:50 AM EST
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Aha, I just found out that if you click on the village name on that website I indicated, you get to see other movies that had scenes filmed in that same village.

Very cool!

by Alex in Toulouse on Sun Jan 1st, 2006 at 10:22:49 AM EST
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Great site, thanks! (Goes looking 'em up with ViaMichelin and Google images)

Ah, it's all in an around Semur (picture below)! The  Château de Marigny-le-Cahouët was the girl's house, next to the bridge of the D119k in Braux was the fishing scene. I could have visited Semur-en-Auxois when I was in Dijon (along with nearby Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, where "Chocolat" was filmed).

ps: it was one of my favourite movies when I was a teenager, but I haven't seen it again since I was a teenager :-)

I have just seen it for the first time since then :-)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sun Jan 1st, 2006 at 11:18:47 AM EST
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Nice picture! Is this a misplaced Bridge Blogging comment?

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Jan 1st, 2006 at 11:38:08 AM EST
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Hah! Could be... I found you a link for the bridge at Structurae. It's apparently called Pont Joly (what a name!), is 17m high above the Armançon river, and is from 1779.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Jan 1st, 2006 at 12:04:55 PM EST
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