CHATEAU DE MAISONS - FRENCH CASTLE | Merveilles en Papier

Hello, welcome in this new video which is also another video for my series about the and in this video we are visiting the castle so that's something I did actually last week after the press day we went with all the journalists visiting all the castle including the secret rooms no visitors are allowed to see so it was really really nice but in this one I thought the castle needed its own video because there are so many things to say and to share about it so the first thing I can tell you this castle has been used in a lot of productions and films throughout this past 20, 30, 40 years including some very famous ones and I plan actually next Christmas season after holidays or after Christmas when I'm a little less busy I plan to watch to re-watch some of these films just to see which room has been used for which scene I think it's super fun to do that so the first most famous one is Les Liaisons Dangereuses from I think 1988 something like that which was partly filmed in this castle with the staircase all that there is the big part of Vatel the film which was filmed at the beginning of the century and they still have all the costumes from Vatel they did many exhibitions related to cinema the film about Jean La Fontaine I mentioned this film in my little series last spring about La Fontaine and the film has also been partly filmed in this castle many others like Les Adieux à la Reine has been filmed there La Fille de D'Artagnan which is a French film has been filmed there a lot of period film of course and I think the series Versailles has also been partly filmed there the secret rooms there was the room of Lafayette Lafayette that you know he had a room for him in this castle and there was a room for Voltaire who was the French philosopher writer he also had a so those are not super they just they look like they had been like that for for centuries probably not totally the case but they don't let visitors in because maybe it's not very spectacular or anything like that it's just moving to go in these sort of places and we saw also the attics all that that was really really nice just to see how it is in in the attics of a castle like that so what's so special about this castle so it was built by Francois Mansart and I made this mistake in my previous video not the one about the exhibition but the one before because I said that it was the same architect who built Versailles and it was not the same well you know there were so many who have the same name it's just difficult so it was not it was this his little nephew who took part of Versailles and not him so if you can just try to have a guided visit just to know and discover all these little surprises of architecture of things so there were just a lot of beautiful improvements architecture revolutions to discover in this castle and on the staircase it just left some squares and the the staircase some squares which would let you know that at this place you should have had a pillar to support the staircase and he didn't need it because he created his staircase with walls so it was pretty nice and there are so many castles in the Parisian era in all these parts of France actually Parisians are really spoiled children they don't see the beauty around them as they should for most of them and they have so many castles so many places they're just really really spoiled children and they don't go to visit everything and the tourists they often don't go out of Paris and it's just close it's just very close but they just stay they do the same three things all the tourists do like the Eiffel tower and all these things and they never see these places which is really sad because they are just as nice as the others are just a little further you need to to take the Parisian train which is the RER RER A to go there which is super easy to do you can take that in the center of Paris and then you arrive and it's 25 30 minutes maximum so it's not a long time and then by foot it's 10 minutes it's really really easy in public transport to get there but yes tourists they do their tourist things and Parisians are a bit lazy I said to a few persons I knew who live in Paris that well there was this beautiful exhibition that they should see at this in this castle and they told me that wow it's really far and this really far thing is a bit a caricature that a Parisian would say everything is far for them they just everything has to be exactly where they are or they don't go they don't move and French are a bit like that already I experienced that in the past with my workshop I told you a lot about that I that's the reason I stopped at some point because French don't move easily compared to other countries when people used to do kilometers to go somewhere here it's not the case people especially for entertainment entertaining thing for work it's different but for their leisure and their fun and all that they wouldn't do that the same way so it's really sad and I hope if you come to Paris that you don't do all the same thing every every tourist do because it's crowded by the way but as I said if you go a little in some specific places you have the best time of the world people in this place were super friendly everywhere in the bakery in my hotel they were super nice everywhere you don't have that in Paris most of the time in the center in the touristic places people are not nice that's that's the truth you experience that all the time but they are really really friendly so just something interesting to know and I was there the afternoon after the journalist left I went back there after lunch last week and I had the castle for myself totally for myself it was magical to be in this beautiful castle pretty much on my own there were just few person few visitors now of course there is the exhibition there will be a bit more people especially during the festive season during weekends for holidays things like that but it's still a great experience to go there you don't have to do a line for five hours you you just enjoy it completely you can see everything it's pretty nice thank you very much for watching this visit I hope it inspired you maybe to come to visit even if you come later and the exhibition is not there anymore you can still enjoy the castle which is really worth seeing and it's just a perfect place to go if you don't like crowded place like me so I have just below the link to the blog post on my blog with all the information details the hotel I slept in the transport you need to use when you come from Paris center all that so all these informations are on my blog and it's very easy to go no worries it's less far than Versailles actually so you will have no problem to go and to enjoy it properly and if you come when the days are a bit better when it's sunny you can enjoy the park I couldn't do it because it was really raining and snowing so it was not possible for me to do that really well but next time I hope I will enjoy it a bit better hope you liked the visit um well give a thumbs up if you liked it just subscribe if you don't want to miss all the next videos I have a lot of super nice things coming the rococo hall is coming uh just to show you a lot of things around the exhibition and this era that could inspire you and a bit later I have the video at my friend's house I filmed it already it's editing that right now so you're going to see that soon and all my christmas series of course and the new christmas workshop which is coming in December December 10 so hope to see you very soon and for now I will leave you here