title: French Chateau Living: The Chteau du Lude
author: Barbara De Nicolay
description: <b>Barbara de Nicolay</b>and her husband, Count Louis-Jean de Nicolay, live at Chteau du Lude with their family.<br /><b>Eric Sanders</b> photographs have appeared in<i>Smithsonian, Life, Time, Newsweek, Le Figaro Magazine</i>, and in numerous books.
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  # Over Strand and Field
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Gustave Flaubert
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. CHATEAU DE CLISSON.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. CARNAC.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. QUIBERON.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. RETURN.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. QUIMPER.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. PONT-L'ABBE.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. ROAMING.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. BREST.
  
  
  CHAPTER X. SAINT-MALO.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. MONT SAINT-MICHEL.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. COMBOURG.
  
  
  
  
  
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  OVER STRAND AND FIELD
  
  
  A Record of Travel through Brittany
  
  
  by
  
  
  GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
  
  
  Simon P. Magee Publisher Chicago, Ill.
  
  
  1904
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  OVER STRAND AND FIELD[1]
  
  
  A Trip through Brittany
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  We walked through the empty galleries and deserted rooms where
  
  
  spiders spin their cobwebs over the salamanders of Francis the First.
  
  
  One is 