Before I even graduated from college, I knew that the Loire Valley chateaux were my “dream vacation.” Any time someone asked me where I most wanted to go in world, I’d say “French ‘Chateaux country.’” Keep in mind, this was years before I started writing about the people who lived, worked, and viciously stabbed one
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I linked news of this controversy in my newsletter, but as I dug further, I knew I had to write a blog post about it. I’m still working on my blogging about my own trip to Close Lucé, but I’d like to think that this counts as “unusual circumstances.” Full disclosure: during my graduate school
Chateaux didn’t magically appear during the French Renaissance, but judging from the numbers of them still in existence across France, you would be forgiven for assuming that they did. They did, however, start to change their basic appearance during the 15th century and took on a decidedly foreign flair. During the Middle Ages, the typical