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On
the first floor served by a majestic stair and a
wide corridor richly decorated
with wall frescoes, we
propose you a suite and six rooms.
All the rooms
are fully equipped with privative bathroom
( with
jacuzzi in room Monseigneur Billard ) and toilets,
heater, air conditioning with individual regulation,
and a sight on the court of honour or the park
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Room
Monseigneur BILLARD
It's the spacious bed room (
40sq meters ) with sight on the park.
with
large bed of 2x2 meters, and spacious bathroom
with jacuzzi
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This still called room " Chambre de l' Evêque " was particularly frequented by the Bishop
of Carcassonne,
Mgr Félix Arsène Billard
( 1829-1901 ), who was the protective of the Abbot Saunière.
The
fate of these two personalities was confidentially
linked and their personality so enigmatic as was the sudden wealth acquired during their ministry.
Both of them were staunch royalists, liked splendours,
good food and good alcohols...
When Monseigneur Billard
died, his successor Monseigneur de Beauséjour,
made only few stays here, because as the opposite of
Mgr Billard he was an austere and stiff man.
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Suite
Abbot SAUNIERE
The suite of the Abbot Saunière
with sight on the
Court of Honour,
is a suite of 2 rooms (40
and 25 sq meters )
with a bathroom,
allowing to sleep 4 persons;
perfectly adapted
as parental suite with children, or suite for 2 couples.
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The abbot Bérenger Saunière ( 1852-1917
), reverent of the small parish of Rennes le Château,
( about 80 kms away from here ) remains still today
a very important
enigmatic figure because of the fabulous treasure which
he would have discovered.
That of Blanche of Castile?...
Knight Templars ?... Visigoths ?... Kings of France
?... Cathars ?...
An important number of websites, books or films evokes this subject, and the success
of the Da Vinci Code aroused an important curiosity
on this mystery of Rennes-le-Château, a visit of this
small village is a must so much the place is magic.
(
Click here to discover the official website of Rennes-le-Château
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After the fall of the Second Empire, the Duke of
Bordeaux, Count de Chambord (1820-1883), was about to
rise on the throne of France under the name of Henri
V. He married the archduchess Marie-Thérèse
of Austria (1817-1886)
of the Habsburg dynasty of Austria.
The Countess de Chambord did not become the last
Queen of France, but she always showed herself
very generous with the abbot Saunière, also a royalist.
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Princess Zita of Bourbon Parma (1892-1989 ) belonged like the Countess of
Chambord, by marriage to the dynasty of Habsburg.
At the age of 19, she married Archduke Charles great-nephew of the Emperor
François-Joseph husband of legendary Empress Sissi, who was to become in 1916
Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria
and King of Hungary, and so she then became the last Empress
of Austria.
Many mysteries remain on the
nature and the real contents of the contacts or the
exchanges established between the Abbot Saunière
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Room
Marie DENARNAUD
Room
for 1 or 2 persons with sight on the Cour of' honour
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She was the faithful handmaid and probably the confident
of the Abbot Saunière.
It is to her that
returned all the patrimony left by the Reverent at his
death in 1917.
But she kept for ever in her
grave the secret of
Rennes-le-Château, when she died in 1953 at the
age of 85.
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Room
Emma CALVE
Room for 1 or
2 persons with sight on the Court of Honour
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The famous opera singer Emma Calvé ( 1858-1942
) was the friend of famous musicians such Gounod,
Debussy, Massenet and Georges Bizet.
Talented soprano,
Carmen's interpretation assured her an international
fame.
Fascinated by mysticism, hinduism and occultism,
she frequented the famous parisian cabaret "
Le Chat Noir " together with Mucha and with Camille
Flammarion.
She possessed a castle at Cabrières
not far from here in her native Causse country.
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Room
Alfons MUCHA
Room for 1 or
2 persons with sight on the Court of Honour
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Alfons Mucha ( 1860-1939 ) famous
poster designer from Czech origin was the inventor of the style Art
nouveau
He was a friend of the famous actress
Sarah Bernhardt for whom he drew posters
now well-known
all over the world.
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