Dreaming of Building Your Castle in France? Author Gerald Doucet offers advice. 

Dreaming of Building Your Castle in France? Author Gerald Doucet offers advice.  French author Gerald Doucet offers much serious and hilarious advice in his book Building Your Castle and Living Like a King in France. Admittedly, it is dated now (1995), but much of the advice is still very current in his memoir of collective castle-buildingContinue reading “Dreaming of Building Your Castle in France? Author Gerald Doucet offers advice. “

Hotel de Sens, Paris – not as it seems

Hotel de Sens, Paris – not as it seems. The Hotel de Sens in the 4th arrondissement of Marais in Paris, France, is not as it seems. It is not a hotel.  The Hotel de Sens is a medieval mansion that now holds the Forney Art Library. It was built as a hotel in 1345 forContinue reading “Hotel de Sens, Paris – not as it seems”