Hedges of multicolored hydrangeas hem the long alley leading to the Villa. The path climbs gently down through a singular forest populated by strange oaks. Some stretch their arms towards the sky, like the branches of a titanic candelabra. Others resemble beheaded hydra, chiseled chimeras or fantastic creatures escaped from Basque mythology. Béatrice Labat, curator of the Villa d'Edmond Rostand in Cambo-les-Bains (64), smiles at the mention of these visions. The reality is much more prosaic. A height for the author of Cyrano de Bergerac , represented for the first time in 1897 and composed of more than 1600 verses in Alexandrian. " They are old hundred-year-old oaks pruned as a tadpole ," she slips.There were not enough of them, for Rostand's taste, who chose to acquire and replant old trees to cover the wooded slopes around the gardens with trognes and thus preserve the views. ” A former operating mode
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