Castle & Garden - Entrecasteaux Souvenir of Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux and garden signed by Le Nôtre. Built on a rocky promontory, the castle is a building full of perfect size, equal heights and harmonious proportions. Simply decorated with wrought iron balustrades and crowned with genoises, it has both style of a “Provençale bastide” and proud appearance of a fortress. From the initial building dating to eleventh century and its reconstruction in the thirteenth century, it remains virtually nothing. Adhemar de Castellane de Monteil, Count of Grignan, Lieutenant-General of the King in Provence, son of Madame de Sevigné, who gave it its present form in the seventeenth century.

The interiors charm by their brightness due to the increase openings to different points in a single volume. The south front, facing towards the village overlooks a French garden. Le Nôtre would have given plans and sketches of the garden of the Orangeraie in Versailles to the Marquise de Sevigné such as her son-in-law could reproduice them in Entrecasteaux. In the north, the castle opens onto a large terrace built on vault at the foot of which a cooler, recently restored, evokes the lifestyle of that time. It was supplided by frozen water taken on meadows along the Bresque and probably through the provision of snow or ice from the Bessillon Hills.

 

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