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12/30/24 

A glimpse of the main castle at Berzé le chatel with a wide expanse of gardens–there’s also an impressive entrance gateway that you can’t see here. You can just catch sight of one of the donjons of the curtain wall in the lower right corner. If you watched the film The  Last Duel, staring Matt Damon and Adam Driver, then you saw the nitty gritty inside workings of a long established castle, and how it had been designed and built to protect the inhabitants and intimidate the neighbors. Helaine’s bedroom is high up in the tower overlooking the gardens, where she can see guests or messengers arriving…