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Inside Château de Gudanes’s Winter Renovations

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    The Château capturing the winter sunlight.

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    My husband and I cutting the galette des rois to decide who gets to wear the crown this year. In the end, we just bought two—saved fighting over the crown.

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    The Christmas tree is still in the vestibule. We’re still working out a way to take it down! It really is like the Rockefeller of Christmas trees—the local mayor dropped it off as a Christmas gift.

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    Original 18th-century tiles are in the process of being re-laid in part of the Château.

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    The view toward Château-Verdun. The re-laying of original 18th-century tiles has also just been completed in this room.