Today we left Paris early, and drove on a touring bus to the castle of Fontainebleau in the middle of an immense forest, where the kings of France used to hunt. We met our chauffeur, Stéphane. Fontainebleau is the most magnificent castle, and features decors from the renaissance to the 19th century. We saw rooms used by Louis XIII, Marie Antoinette, and Napoléon. We walked the courtyard where the latter said farewell to his army when he abdicated to the English. We were the first ones there, so we almost had the castle to ourselves.
After this, we drove to the Castle of Chenonceaux on the Cher river, an afluent of the Loire river. The Castle was a bit crowded, but we also visited the gardens, and got lost in its princely maze.
Finally, we went to Loches, where we had diner, and went for a night tour of the 12th century medieval fortress there, with our guide Jérome, who is a history buff, and had a thousand anecdotes to share with us.
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