Angela really warmed to the idea a few days later when she saw Chateau Bauduc: a seductive nineteenth-century cream-coloured stone manoir with the sort of symmetrical grandeur at which the French excel.
The density of castles and manoirs in Brittany is unique in Europe.
It was not until the 1980s that exchange controls finally came to an end, and with them the freedom to travel and to buy that fascinating but run-down little manoir in the Dordogne.
Synonyms
mansion, stately home, hall, manor, big house, manor house, country house, castle, palace