The North wing.
T
he Chateau de Courances reminds us that there
are, occasionally, places that personify surreal, sometimes near heavenly abodes, places where the built
world, nature and the spiritual coalesce. One also finds
such locations in literature. It is against these imagined
settings that the extraordinary living experience is often
measured.
In Hilton���s Lost Horizons, the reader conjures a vision of
Shangri-la. We imagine a great Jacobean house in Henry
James��� The Spoils of Poynton. In The Last Puritan one
conceives the father���s yacht surpassing the impressive
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