Okay, so I think I'll be seeing chateaus and tapestries and whatnot in my sleep after spending yet another day visiting chateaus - this time in Langeais and Blois. Sunday monring we spent at what was probably the least interesting chateau (mostly because we basically just had a tour of all the different tapestries)- Langeais. The fortress dates back to the 13th century and is famous for being the site of a secret marriage between King Charles XIII and Anne de Bretagne in the 1400s. The view was nice, but it was FREEZING cold outside, so not too much fun.
The afternoon was a bit better - we visited the town of Blois, famous for a pretty cool chateau which has 4 different architectural elements - Gothic (1200s), Flamboyant (1400s), Renaissance (1500s), and Classic (1600s), each very, very different, making for an interesting tour. It was also the site of the assassination of the Duke of Guise in the 1500s, inciting a religious war between Protestants and Catholics.
The rest of the day was spent catching up on sleep, loading pictures, skyping with the family, and working on fall internship stuff/homework for this week. I have to write a 4-page composition for tomorrow about the retirement age in France but there is also an enormous music festival tonight that we're basically required to go to for class - it's a celebration of the beginning of summer and a Tours tradition every year.
This afternoon, we are going to a massive supermarket to fill out a bunch of questions for class on French food and whatnot.
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