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Balzac House: Finally, if you'd like a surprise—of which I now rob you—look up the Balzac House at the hamlet of Sache, near Azay-le-Rideau. In one of the rooms of this museum dedicated to France's geant litteraire is, of all things, a Jo Davidson Museum! The late, much-whiskered Jo was a frequent sojourner hereabouts and his heads of the literary great, more than a score of them, done in marble, bronze and terra cotta, are of utmost interest. The museum was opened in the summer of 1954.
There are also notable examples of with an atrium (an interior court surrounded 1$ rooms). Some of these are of relatively ancie construction, such as the House with the Wood Partition, the Samnite House, and the House -5^51 Neptune and Amphitrite. Of unusual design £jt(,er the great villas in the southern part of the ci including the House of Argo, the House of t Hostelry, the House of the Mosaic Atrium, a the House of the Deer. In these houses the t ditional plan is modified. The peristilia (cole naded courtyards), the gardens, reception haj and other rooms were oriented toward the sot in order to take advantage of the view towa the sea.
Chenonceaux, with its simple but good Hdtel du Eon Laboureur, is another logical center and, for the inner man, or woman, keep in mind the really wonderful fare of two simple restaurants which are "all food and no style," Hostellerie Gargantua (try its mouth-melting Omelette Gargamelle) at Chinon, and Hostellerie des Trots Marchands (roast duck), at Cheverny.
Finally, if you'd like a surprise—of which I now rob you—look up the Balzac House at the hamlet of Sache, near Azay-le-Rideau. In one of the rooms of this museum dedicated to France's geant litteraire is, of all things, a Jo Davidson Museum! The late, much-whiskered Jo was a frequent sojourner hereabouts and his heads of the literary great, more than a score of them, done in marble, bronze and terra cotta, are of utmost interest. The museum was opened in the summer of 1954. |
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