You may wonder how Ambialet came to be what it is today. Let’s take a broad step back in time. It all began like the other fairy tales we have learned to love ~ with a giant. The ancients say that this giant, "Gargantua," was strolling through the countryside, stepping from one hill to another. The journey was tiring and it made Gargantua very thirsty. At some point, he leaned down and drank a river whole! Upon feeling a little twig sticking on his tongue, he spit there, and out came a cart loaded with hay and pulled by oxen, which peacefully crossed the river! While taking more great strides, a little stone got stuck in the giant's shoe. He took this out and threw it aside. One of these stones landed at Ambialet. Today, this is known as «la Pierre plantée», which in English means ‘the planted stone.’
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Presqu’ île of Ambialet © Tales of a Flaneur |
So there's the story! Ambialet was just a tiny stone stuck in Gargantua’s shoe that was later filled in and surrounded by water. This is why Ambialet is called a «Presqu’île», which means ‘almost an island' (or peninsula).
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["Les Cupules" in Ambialet prestígíeux et secret, p. 3]
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