Showing posts with label río Cher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label río Cher. Show all posts

07 April 2025

Chenonceau Castle over the Cher River, Indre et Loire (France)

"I absolutely do not want to be locked up in anything other than a pine box and I charge my successors, wherever I die, to have me transported to Chenonceau with the greatest simplicity and to place me in the place that I will have marked."

Louise Dupin
buried in Chenonceau Castle

08 August 2001

Chateau de Chenonceau spanning the Cher River in Chenonceau, Indre-et-Loire (France)


Sweet are thy amorous precincts, Cher!
Spangled with flowers thy meadows are;
Fair as of old thy tangled woods
And clear and deep thy gushing floods.
Yon stately pile is fresh and gay,
As time had cast his scythe away:
Since unchaste Dian drew her bow,
With hound and horn at Chenonceaux.

Excerpt from an anonymous poem