La Mayenne si discrète, si secrète ! Et pourtant, tant de trésors insoupçonnés ! L’art d’abord, le plus débordant, le plus excessif, le plus original, celui de Robert Tatin, ce contemporain qui installa son étrange musée, chez lui, à Cossé-le-Vivien. Ensuite, parmi tous les châteaux qui occupent ces terres vouées à l’élevage et à la forêt, […]
Category: Châteaux
Chambord ; the most grandiose, the most majestic, the most sumptuous, the most mysterious of all châteaux
Who hasn’t dreamt about visiting Chambord ? Undoubtedly, this castle is the crazy dream of a young King, François I, but nevertheless, during the forty years of his reign, he only spent forty days there. Five centuries after the commencement of its construction, seeing it is still a dream. To reach the château you must enter…
Chinon a formidable Fortress at the heart of a vast Empire
One of the greateast mythical places! History has stopped many times at Chinon. Just think about it and marvel before this formidable Fortress. It occupies a rocky outcrop above the city, the Plantagenet Royal Fortress was the centre of the Kingdom of France, birthplace of Rabelais the great humanist and let it not be forgotten…