Le Chateau with the formal gardens in the foreground.
A closer view of Chateau Poulet.
Chateau Poulet from across le plan d'eau.
Rambouillet, the inspiration for Chateau Poulet.
The work has been arduous, but no great edifice is built without sacrifice, struggle and suffering. In the case of
Chateau Poulet, the future abode of our chicken flock, the sacrifice, struggle and suffering has been all mine so far. I've been working on the chateau for 10 days straight and I'm pretty sore, very tired and my hands are full of splinters. As the French would say, "Je suis creve!" (Literal translation, "I'm punctured!" With all the splinters in my hands that's literally true.) The chickens will be coming in two weeks, so there's really no time to lose getting their digs done. I'm pretty happy with progress so far. The lines of Chateau Poulet are inspiring without being ostentatious. The whole seems to me to be quite harmonious and balanced. I'm sure all of you readers immediately spotted the uncanny similarities between Rambouillet, ancien chateau de chasse des Rois de France, and Chateau Poulet. They both have walls, windows and doors for example. Despite the obvious resemblance, I did not simply copy Rambouillet as some have accused me of doing. Let us just say that I was inspired by that other great work of architecture. Move over Frank Lloyd Wright!
2 comments:
haha...Thats more than I could probably build!
sure looks better than Rambouillet :)
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