Frapesle's alley and the water source of la Rabouilleuse

« Venez donc à Frapesle, il y a quelque chose dans l’air d’éminemment calme et rafraîchissant » (" Come to Frapesle, there is something in the aire that mekes it calm and refreshing) wrote Zulma Carraud to Balzac. Issoudunwas for Balzac, a place of rest but also of work. He wrote the most part of César Birotteau, among Auguste Borget,one of his issoldunois friend, draw the portrait. He took the name Frapesle and put it in another novel : Le Lys dans la Vallée.

A large and long avenue orned by poplar sided streets, goes into town through prairies to an old nunnery named Frapesle, which the english gardens, unique in the district, owned the ambitious name of Tivoli. On Sunday, lover couple likes to confide in each others.

La Rabouilleuse - Honoré de Balzac

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Signed into the supplementary inventory of the Historical Monuments since 1993, this pretty alley is still today one of the most liked walking place of the Issoldunois.


The water source of La Rabouilleuse is one of many resurgences of la Théols. Its clear water can also be find in the Issoldunoise part of the novel. Indeed, that is there that Balzac makes Flore Brazier appears under the eyes of the. old doc. Rouget. For Flore, nicknamed La Rabouilleuse, this bucolic picture is the beggining of a tragic destiny on which she can never handle.


La Rabouilleuse - Honoré de Balzac