Chantilly, France: Sublime châteaux and racing glamour - Telegraph

Chantilly, France: Sublime châteaux and racing glamour - Telegraph: "We peeked at the château restaurant housed in the kitchens of the great master Vatel, then headed for “Le Hameau”, a collection of five timber-framed cottages built in 1774 for the Prince de Bourbon. The Dining Room, in the largest of the thatched houses, was painted inside with a canopy of trompe l’oeil trees, giving the impression that you were eating in the middle of the forest. Le Hameau later inspired another “Hameau” at Versailles, where Queen Marie Antoinette so infamously milked cows and baked bread."