Villaines : secrets d’un château du Maine (Villaines: secrets of a Maine castle)
Not far from Le Mans, Villaines is part of the long history of Maine manors and castles. It is this castle with high slate roofs that Fabrice Moireau shows us. In total immersion, the watercolourist gives us a complete and intimate vision of the place. Facades, roofs, bedrooms and living rooms, library, kitchen, cellars and moats, dovecote and barn, nothing escaped the eye of this enthusiast of ancient architecture. Completing his report, Fabrice Moireau put on the gardener’s boots and sketched from all angles, over the seasons, these marvels of domesticated nature. Stanislas Dupleix, a young writer, conducted the investigation in parallel. With his lively and documented pen, he brings to light and details the thousand and one secrets of the estate, the castle and the gardens. It narrates like a romantic story, which accompanies the watercolors as closely as possible, the ups and downs, the anecdotes, the little mysteries that only the succession of centuries allows.
You can get this book in bookstores or directly at the Château
64 pages, Format : 290 x 250 mn – 30€ Contact : 06 08 73 15 85
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Dictionnaire topographique, historique, généalogique et bibliographique de la province et du diocèse du Maine par M. le chanoine Le Paige à Paris chez Saugrain, libraire 1777
Dictionnaire topographique, historique, et statistique de la Sarthe par J-R Pesche à Paris chez Bachelier, libraire 1829
Le patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe Editions Flohic 2001
Guide des Jardins en France par Michel Racine, Editions Ulmer 2007
Le potager en carrés par Anne Marie Nageleisen, Editions Ulmer 2009
Jardins de la Sarthe par Claude Gache et Guy Durand, Editions Transit 2010
Jardins d’émotions en Sarthe par Josiane Couasnon et Sylvie Granger, Editions Libra Diffusio 2017
Villaines, secret d’un château du Maine texte de Stanislas Dupleix, aquarelles de Fabrice Moireau, Editions du Pacifique 2021
Remarquables potagers de France par Laetitia Bataille et Gilles Debarle, Editions France Agricole, novembre 2022