sturdy solid marble dining tables which contrast with
delicate Regence cane chairs with upholstered seats.
Numerous sideboards are built into the rich boiserie.
The view over the moat culminates in a water feature created by Duchene, the Fountain of Arethuse. It is crowned
by the facsimile of a marble nymph sculpted by Claude
Poirier in 1711. The original is now in the Musee de Louvre. Few landscape compositions are more successful,
few more romantic.
In my autographed book on Courances, given to me after a long day���s visit, these words are inscribed:
HYLAND
