Summer holidays: the return of family homes

"It was, somewhere, a park laden with black firs and lime trees, and an old house that I loved." Five years before dying at sea, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry repeats at the bend of a page of Terre des hommes, as one places a kiss on a wall, his attachment to the house of his childhood. Place of vacation and inspiration, the castle of Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens (Ain) has continued to nourish the work of the author of the Little Prince, even in his forties. How to define the magic of these more or less old buildings, more or less looked after, in which families are used to meeting? What is the nature of the attachment that binds members of a tribe to a site?

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"I am in love with my house, asserts Stanislas de Laboulaye with confidence about the Quesnay manor (Seine-Maritime) which has been in his family since 1739. She literally competes with my wife." The interested responds: "Although it was not that of my childhood, I got attached to this place,

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