Angers
Langeais
Azay
Chemonceau
Ambeoise
Blois
Chambord
7 castles
3 days
and yes. i did listen to princess of china. coldplay has a song for everything.
Each chateau had it's own element of uniqueness. But i'll admit, i don't feel the need to see another castle again for a very very long time. After a while they all seemed to blur. One castle reminded me of Cinderella. Another, Chambord, of Lady Catherine deBourgh's house Rosings. But more than literary and film allusions, i loved imagining the lives of the people who walked through and lived in these castles. In Blois there was a room full of hidden cabinets that i loved. In Chemonceau, there were vaulted ceilings with pine rafters. Definitely where Danielle de Barbaraque would've lived. At Ambeoise, Charles VIII hit his head and died (as we talked about at every castle). At Langeais, the same Charles VIII secretly married Anne de Bretagne. Both of them were short, Charles with a hooked nose and Anne with a ski-jump nose. After he his head, Anne remarried her true love Louis something and lived happily ever after. See, fairy tales really do come true.
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