{"id":8206,"date":"2022-12-30T16:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:56:01","slug":"la-confrerie-de-saint-claude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/la-confrerie-de-saint-claude\/","title":{"rendered":"LA CONFRERIE DE SAINT CLAUDE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8206\" class=\"elementor elementor-8206\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-68e9b60 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"68e9b60\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-02e8a8c\" data-id=\"02e8a8c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03c8774 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"03c8774\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.1 - 13-11-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flying to Geneve, Carlo has been sleeping since we took off, as it always happens to him.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: inherit;background-color: var(--gt-background-color)\">His wife, Giovanna, is taking pictures of the clouds flowing beneath us, while Maria is paging through the EasyJet catalogue, even if she is absolutely sure she won\u2019t buy anything.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;background-color: var(--gt-background-color)\">We are going to France, Saint Claude, the Mecca of pipes, where Carlo and I are going to be enthroned during the 143 <\/span><sup>rd. <\/sup><span style=\"font-size: inherit;background-color: var(--gt-background-color)\">chapter of the Confrerie des Maitre Pipiers.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: inherit;background-color: var(--gt-background-color)\">For those dealing with pipes this is a great honour. If you go to the website of the Confrerie, in the \u201cHistory\u201d section you will find this:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>\u201cThe pipe, a symbol of peace, relaxation and love, but also of boldness, calculated courage and cold blood, adapts to be possessed only by generous, honest and brave men and women\u201d.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>It was in 1966, at the initiative of President Edgar Faure (1908-1988), also appointed as First Pipe Smoker of the Year, that the Confrerie des Ma\u00eetres Pipiers was created, whose aim, in the form of membership law 1901, was:<\/em><\/p><ul><li><em>Bringing together the pipemakers of the Saint-Claude region<\/em><\/li><li><em>Organising events that allowed spreading the fame of Saint-Claude\u2019s pipe, the world centre for briar root pipes, or taking part to such events.<\/em><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>It is to believe that the Confraternity answers to some secret need of the heart, because, as it was started by a handful of determined men, it is constantly growing. Currently, more than 1,500 people are ambassadors of the Pipe of Saint-Claude worldwide. They have been regarded as worthy of this task bringing their best at the service of the noble cause of the Pipe of Saint-Claude.\u00a0<\/em><em style=\"font-size: inherit\">The confreres come from the most different experiences, from the professionals in the sector to celebrities known for their love for the Pipe. They are from European Countries, from Swiss as well as America, Japan\u2026and the women, though still small in number, are allowed to join the noble Confrerie des Ma\u00eetres Pipiers de Saint-Claude.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;background-color: var(--gt-background-color)\">Embedded in an amazing landscape, Saint Claude is set within the natural Park of the Jura, at the junction between the Bienne and the Tacon rivers, about one hour and a half from Geneve.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d6c9ce8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d6c9ce8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b1d4368\" data-id=\"b1d4368\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31c4de7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"31c4de7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.1 - 13-11-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"548\" height=\"626\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%203%202%27%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"attachment-large size-large gt-lazy-load\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Saint-Claude.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Saint-Claude.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Saint-Claude-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Saint-Claude-415x474.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/Saint-Claude-250x286.jpg 250w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3742db5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3742db5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-95fbd56\" data-id=\"95fbd56\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b244974 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b244974\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">It owes its name to the finding of Saint Claude of Besancon\u2019s incorrupt body in 1160, which transformed the place into an important pilgrimage destination. The relation with the pipe, however, starts in the early 1900. As I have already written in another article on this website, in 1927 the making of briar-root pipes employed, in France alone, about 10,000 workers and Saint-Claude was busy all year round with this kind of factory.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The homeland of Chacom, Genod and Butz-Choquin, as well as of the craftsmen Pierre Morel, Michel Waille and Sebastien Beaud, has its streets furnished with pipe shaped litter bins and a tiny square hosts the sculpture of a gigantic pipe which gives off smoke at regular intervals. Along the main road there are several shops displaying pipes and briar objects and, right in front of the cathedral, you can visit the Pipe and Diamonds Museum. At the riverbank there is still the old Genod factory, currently Sebastien Beaud\u2019s workshop, whereas just outside the city there is Chacom, that its young owner, my friend Antoine Grenard, recently moved to a modern building.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-36589a7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"36589a7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2503f18\" data-id=\"2503f18\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3534292 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3534292\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%203%202%27%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"attachment-large size-large gt-lazy-load\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-1024x498.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-1536x747.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-2048x996.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-415x202.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-650x316.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/20221015_113943-250x122.jpg 250w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d57a996 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d57a996\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cec61f1\" data-id=\"cec61f1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-206e3c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"206e3c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On October 14th Carlo and I were enthroned. With us, two more Italians, milestones of the Pipa Club Italia: Alberto Basciano and Genny Magrin; then my Polish friend Zbigniew Bednarczyk, Zibi for his friends, Mr Brog for the world of pipes.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: inherit;background-color: var(--gt-background-color)\">Obviously thrilled, at 5pm we went to the ceremony venue, a richly decorated hall inside the Pipe and Diamonds Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">All ceremonies have got the power of the ritual. They waken ancestral emotions whatever our character or our beliefs are. It happens also during the Confrerie enthronement. Entering the hall of enthronement is allowed only after you knock on a heavy wooden door. Therein, accurate dim lights surround hieratic figures wearing a long, blue and yellow robe, headgear and crest of the Confrerie on their neck. To the sides, almost in the dark, the audience. In the centre of the hall, a table hosts everything necessary to the \u201cinitiation test\u201d: load a pipe you can choose among those offered by a master of ceremonies, light it up and clean it thereafter. In turn, the six initiated will accomplish the ritual, accompanied by Antoine. It is followed by the reading of the initiated\u2019 s resume (my friend S\u00e9bastien Beaud will do it for me) and a text in which the novices are invited to defend the good name of the pipe of Saint Claude everywhere in the world. Eventually, there is the actual endowment during which the master of ceremony touches with a long pipe, as if it were a sword, both sides of the new Confrere Pipier\u2019s shoulders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To my enthronement, another ceremony was included, maybe even more important, the twinning between the Italian Accademia della Pipa ( Pipe Academy) and the Confrerie de Saint Claude, sealed by Antoine Grenard\u2019s signature, as President of the latter, and the four founding Masters of the Accademia: Mimmo Romeo, companion of pipe adventures, creator of the Academy and best friend; Gabriele Dal Fiume, eclectic pipemaker and my comrade in many Pipe Show around the world; Davide Iafisco, one of the best representatives of the Italian high grade and I at last, still asking myself what have I done to deserve all this. To underline the importance of the event, there were some pupils of the Academy: Alessandro Bean, Manuele Morassut, Michele Sottocasa, Alessandro Lucca and Angelo Fassi, all of them good pipemakers and future Masters, definitely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back home, I hung the Confrere Pipier certificate in my lab and put the medallion in a drawer, away from briar dust, because the next time I will go back to Saint Claude for a new enthronement, I will have to wear this and I still can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b2e7155 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b2e7155\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d0700f3\" data-id=\"d0700f3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ce3812 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8ce3812\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"910\" height=\"504\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%203%202%27%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"attachment-large size-large gt-lazy-load\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/I-4.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/I-4.jpg 910w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/I-4-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/I-4-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/I-4-415x230.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/I-4-650x360.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/I-4-250x138.jpg 250w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying to Geneve, Carlo has been sleeping since we took off, as it always happens to him.&nbsp;His wife, Giovanna, is taking pictures of the clouds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[275,274,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauropipe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}