[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fen\u002Farticles\u002Fdoku-chronique-perdue-olhain":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"brand":269,"date":270,"description":271,"draft":272,"extension":273,"game":274,"image":275,"meta":276,"navigation":277,"ogImage":278,"path":279,"readingTime":280,"robots":278,"schemaOrg":278,"seo":281,"sitemap":282,"stem":286,"tags":287,"video":278,"__hash__":292},"articles_en\u002Fen\u002Farticles\u002Fdoku-chronique-perdue-olhain.md","Olhain, six thousand years of history on the hills of Artois: the first episode of Doku — The Lost Chronicle","Appynamic",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":258},"minimark",[10,30,37,42,45,48,51,55,58,61,65,68,71,75,82,89,93,96,103,109,113,147,150,154],[11,12,13,14,18,19,24,25,29],"p",{},"The first episode of ",[15,16,17],"strong",{},"Doku — The Lost Chronicle",", our adventure game for 5 to 13-year-olds, begins under the beeches of Olhain, on the first ridge of the Artois hills in the Pas-de-Calais. One night, the Grey Mist, a creature made up for the game, scattered the pages of the Great Chronicle: without them, Olhain forgets its history. Pip, a little knight, sets off to find them with Russet the fox, and every zone he wins gives back a sourced page. The whole episode is on ",[20,21,23],"a",{"href":22},"\u002Fchronicle\u002Fen\u002Folhain","its page",", the other six on ",[20,26,28],{"href":27},"\u002Fchronicle\u002Fen","the game's page",".",[11,31,32],{},[33,34],"img",{"alt":35,"src":36},"The Olhain forest in the game","\u002Fmedia\u002Fchronicle\u002Fchapters\u002Fforest.webp",[38,39,41],"h2",{"id":40},"a-forest-hiding-a-6000-year-old-secret","A forest hiding a 6,000-year-old secret",[11,43,44],{},"The Olhain state forest covers about 290 hectares; with its hillside, it is listed as a natural area of ecological interest (a ZNIEFF). Under its trees, a LIDAR survey, a laser that \"sees\" the ground through the leaves, revealed a Neolithic enclosure about 6,000 years old. It covers more than 25 hectares, and its ditches and banks break off to form entrances. The first dig, in September 2022, turned up flints, pottery and sandstone objects. Since 15 June 2023, the site has been a listed historic monument.",[11,46,47],{},"Right next door, the Olhain county park, opened in 1973, welcomes about 700,000 visitors a year; a 564-metre zip line sets off from its lookout tower.",[11,49,50],{},"In the game, Pip throws magic acorns, crosses the bluebell glade, finds \"the secret under the trees\" and faces the Great Bramble. The oak, the beech and the roe deer go into his notebook: species common in the forests of northern France, not an official inventory of Olhain.",[38,52,54],{"id":53},"a-castle-standing-on-the-water","A castle standing on the water",[11,56,57],{},"At Fresnicourt-le-Dolmen, Olhain castle rises from a moat up to about 80 metres wide. The Olhain family is first mentioned in 1179. In 1407, oak timber was delivered for works on the \"hôtel d'Olehain\": the castle we see today dates from the early 15th century. The Berghes-Saint-Winock family kept it from 1409 to 1900. It is said to be the finest medieval fortress of Artois, and it has been a listed monument since 12 April 1989. It is privately owned.",[11,59,60],{},"The game goes in over its two bridges. The sieges of 1641, 1654 and 1710 are told by the pages, never played: you never fight Spaniards or Dutchmen, and the guardian, the Mist Knight, is an empty suit of armour puffed up with mist. On the \"bridge of Questions\", Hoot the owl waits for Pip, and only ever asks him about a page he has already read.",[38,62,64],{"id":63},"the-fairies-table","The Fairies' Table",[11,66,67],{},"Close by, a huge slab of about 3 metres by 2.5 metres, some ten tonnes, rests on three standing stones: the Fairies' Table, raised in the Neolithic and protected as a historic monument since 1889. The village owes it its name: Fresnicourt became Fresnicourt-le-Dolmen by decree on 8 January 1925.",[11,69,70],{},"Oral tradition says that \"white ladies\" dance in a ring around it, and that a spellbound walker might be dragged under the stone. The game tells it for what it is, a legend. Pip goes there at night, guided by fireflies, to free Mist, the white lady held by the Grey Mist.",[38,72,74],{"id":73},"back-in-time-then-forward","Back in time, then forward",[11,76,77,78,81],{},"Under the castle, the kitchens in the cellars are built between Merovingian walls, much older than the castle itself. In the game, the Mist hides there and drags Pip into the past: as a little hunter, he crosses ",[15,79,80],{},"two ages"," tens of thousands of years apart, the mammoth steppe of the last ice age, then the first Neolithic farmers and their enclosure. That time gate is made up, and the game says so. The mammoths, reindeer and aurochs are peaceful: Pip only chases the mist.",[11,83,84,85,88],{},"The next chapter is a ",[15,86,87],{},"possible future",", \"the one where everyone forgot the Chronicle\", entirely made up: Olhain under the snow, and robots taken over by the Frost Mist. There is no power plant at Olhain; the most powerful one in France is at Gravelines, in the neighbouring Nord department, by the sea. The pages there tell of the Great Winter of 1709 and of the first snowflake ever photographed, in 1885.",[38,90,92],{"id":91},"lorette-1915-remembering-without-fighting","Lorette, 1915: remembering without fighting",[11,94,95],{},"Very close to Olhain, the hill of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette was taken by the German army on 5 October 1914, and trenches were dug there. On 9 May 1915, the French army launched the Second Battle of Artois; after terrible fighting, the front settled at the foot of the hill. In 1924, Lorette became a national cemetery: nearly 43,000 soldiers rest there, 22,970 of them unknown, beneath a 52-metre lantern tower. Since 11 November 2014, the Ring of Remembrance there has carried nearly 580,000 names of soldiers who died in the region, in alphabetical order, with no distinction of rank or nationality.",[11,97,98,99,102],{},"This is the chapter we made with the most care. ",[15,100,101],{},"No soldier is an enemy",", and the game shows no weapon and no flag. Pip is a messenger with a homing pigeon in his basket: the French army had tens of thousands of them. The Mist of Forgetting wants to erase the names; it takes the shape of what made people suffer, barbed wire, rats, mud. Pip clears it away with poppy petals, and there is never any fighting in the cemetery. At the end, a bugle sounds far away, and poppies spring up from the shell holes.",[11,104,105],{},[33,106],{"alt":107,"src":108},"The Hills of Remembrance in the game","\u002Fmedia\u002Fchronicle\u002Fchapters\u002Florette.webp",[38,110,112],{"id":111},"to-visit-as-a-family","To visit as a family",[11,114,115,116,120,121,128,129,134,135,140,141,146],{},"Our ",[20,117,119],{"href":118},"\u002Folhain\u002Fen","Olhain guide"," tells the story of the forest, the castle and the dolmen from the same sources. The ",[20,122,127],{"href":123,"rel":124,"target":126},"https:\u002F\u002Fparcdolhain.fr\u002F?referrer=appynamic.com",[125],"nofollow","_new","county park"," welcomes walkers, and a ",[20,130,133],{"href":131,"rel":132,"target":126},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sentiers-en-france.eu\u002Fsentiers-pas-de-calais-62\u002Fbethune\u002Fsentier-la-table-aux-fees-fresnicourt-le-dolmen?referrer=appynamic.com",[125],"waymarked trail"," leads to the Fairies' Table. 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