Chateau du Beaumesnil - last day in Normandy
Saturday, last day at the brick house hotel, enjoying breakfast and fun art in the breakfast salon. Then we drove a few miles to the Château de Beaumesnil, a beautiful chateau with landscaped grounds including a boxwood hedge maze, all designed by a student of Le Notre, the famous landscape gardener who did Versailles, among others. We could not stop taking pictures!
Alex and Vincent enjoyed the free range chickens (poules) and the kitchen inside the chateau.
The chateau has a long history, and includes a bookbinding museum and a grand wooden staircase from the library.
"Château de Beaumesnil is a 17th-century Louis XIII baroque style château located in the commune of and close to the village of Beaumesnil in Eure department of Normandy in northern France. The château, now an official historical monument of France, is surrounded by a moat, having been built on the site of a medieval castle of the same name."
JD's pictures hotel and Beaumesnil
and yellow colza (canola) fields
pictures
Lunch afterwards in town at Etape Louis XIII, for an amazing meal, better than we even expected. The foie gras soup? The warm foie gras on toast? Nothing better. Then only 90 minutes back to France on the nicest day of the year - almost 80 degrees. Alex took some of the pictures in the garden of the restaurant.
the cool hedge maze:
Alex, Vincent, and the roosters:
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