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Marie Antoinette's Dairy and the Shell cottage in Rambouillet.
On the grounds of the Rambouillet Château, you will come across the Shell Cottage with its walls covered in shells and mother-of-pearl. Further on is the Queen's Dairy built by Louis XVI for Marie-Antoinette. |
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La
maison Picassiette
The Maison Picassiette in Chartres is a house decorated, inside and out, with pieces of crockery and china. Raymond Isidore who was a graveyard sweeper by day, devoted 30 years and 15 tons of crockery to this project. It is a classified monument and an unusual example of Naive Art. |
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Le
Parc de Jeurre
In the park of Jeurre, discover the four most famous fabrics created at Méréville by Hubert Robert for the Marquis de Laborde, banker of Louis XV. |
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La
pagode de Chanteloup
Of Chinese inspiration but in the purest Louis XVI style, the pagoda of Chanteloup is unique of its kind. It is 44 meters high and from the top you can enjoy a remarkable view of the Loire valley and Amboise forest. |
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Le
Cyclop de Jean Tinguely
Like a totem in the form of a huge cyclopean head sparkling with mirrors and traversed with footbridges and mezzanines, the work of Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely in association with 15 internationally renowned artists, rises in the midst of the Fontainebleau forest. |
