17 May 2024

Saint-Aignan : the old and the new


I got busy this morning and forgot to publish my blog post before now. The pictures here show the oldest part of the Saint-Aignan château complex. The white stone donjon (keep or tower) is about a thousand years old. The building with its roof burned off was an 18th century (I think) convent. The roof has now been replaced (as at Notre-Dame de Paris).The weather is beautiful right now and our neighbors who live in Blois are having a party tomorrow. It's a cousinade (a kind of family reunion) and somewhere between 70 and 80 people will be in attendance.

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  1. Oh, my goodness, I don’t remember seeing the donjon!

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    1. The donjon is very close to the gîte where you stayed in 2017.

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  2. I think I remember your taking a photo of the donjon when we were at the postoffice (?) across the river on my last trip.

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    1. Not sure what we were seeing from that spot lol.

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  3. The Cousinade sounds like fun! Enjoy the good weather with your good friends!

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    1. The weather has gone showery again. I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of hard rain beating against the skylight windows upstairs. Sigh...

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