The studio has a ceramic-tiled bathroom with a shower, sink, and
toilet. The ceramic-tiled kitchenette has everyting you need for
cooking, including a hot plate, microwave, and fridge. Downstairs
is the kitchen the duke's family used up to the 1980s, with another
fridge with freezer, two stoves, lots of table space, and a room
with the coin-op washer and dryer. Everyone is welcome to use this
kitchen. In the apartment, the dining area has European antique oak
table and chairs. There is an area for sitting with two wicker
chairs and a convertible sofa that converts to a bed. The bed is
on birch slats, more comfortable than my bed at home. After
sleeping on this bed, I went to Ikea and converted my bed at home to
the same format. It sleeps two, and there are a single Aerobed & a
single foam hassock/bed, in case guests want to sleep separately.

At the chateau, there are lovely strolls and beautiful vistas. You
can explore the century-old cellars, the duke's staff kitchen, the
oubliette (where people were punished by being left to wither away),
the pigeon house, and other fascinating 17th-Century through 18th-
Century finds.

Terrific and charming restaurants reside on nearby rivers or on
gardens, or on both, with wonderful food at prices much lower than
in Paris--for example, 11-euro 3-course meals with wine. The
supermarche in town, 3 km away, has a vast variety of ordinary and
spectacular wine, cheese, pates, and other food, including local
produce plus the luscious refrigerated dinners by famous French
chefs. Best of all, the town has the venerable small shops--the
butcher, the baker... and everything else you might need, including
an Internet center, pharmacy, post office, rail station, .....

You can ride horses, play golf, see museums, hear music, see
theater, find hidden treasures, in the vicinity, and the Champagne
region is less than 40 minutes away. Best of anything, though, is to
lounge in your seat on the terrace of this chateau on a hill, and
watch the sun go down across your indefinitely long view, with some
local wine and local brie within easy reach.