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<\/p>\nDuring your stay at the Chateau La Douve d’Armaill\u00e9 in the Loire Valley in France, take time to visit the Chateau du Patys, near La Douve. In this chateau, Herv\u00e9 Bazin was born. He is the writer of a famous book: “Viper in the fist”.
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9 km from the Chateau la Douve in the Loire Valley is the village of Marans where Herv\u00e9 Bazin was born. His house, called a little pompously Castle Patys, serves as the frame of his book “Viper in the Fist” which was one of the most read novels in French language.<\/p>\n
The writer Ren\u00e9 Bazin, Herv\u00e9’s great uncle, had owned the house he had loved so much. He described this house in his book “My Aunt Giron” (1884). “Many times I stopped, crying almost with admiration, at some beautiful sight of the fields, and then I knelt down to thank God for having made the countryside so beautiful, and my soul able to experience and understand it”
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Herv\u00e9 Bazin, who then inherited the place, spent an unhappy childhood there, and he describes the place severely in \u201cViper in the Fist”, then in “The Death of the Little Horse” and “The Cry of the Owl”. It is thus paradoxical that two generations apart, the same place inspires feelings totally contradictory to the great-uncle and grand-nephew.<\/p>\n
In 1917,\u00a0 Herv\u00e9 Bazin’s parents went to Indochina, and he stayed alone with his grandmother. When his parents reluctantly return, his mother’s first touch was a painful slap. From then on, he had a fierce hatred for his mother, his family, and the strong religious traditions in the Segr\u00e9en country.[action full_width=”yes” content_in_grid=”yes” type=”normal” text_font_weight=”” show_button=”yes” button_text=”Discover the chateau de La Douve” button_link=”https:\/\/www.votre-chateau-de-famille.com\/chateau\/chateau-de-la-douve-darmaille\/”]On the road of writers[\/action]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ch\u00e2teau du Patys is located a few kilometers from the Ch\u00e2teau de la Douve near Angers, in the Loire Valley in France. It was here that Herv\u00e9 Bazin, one of the most renowned post-war French writers and the author of the famous \u201cViper in the Fist”, was born. His novel, nourished by the bitterness of childhood, describes with force the physical and symbolic violence of a mother without love, and the gloom of a country closed on its traditions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[268,313],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vacances","category-weddings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n