Nogentais - Plaine Champenoise

Nogentais: the life of a château

This pastoral Nogentais really is the land of romanticism. It's a country of golden fields that has given rise to famous adventures, and even to everlasting love. Héloïse and Abélard didn't ….get it wrong. The château de la Motte Tilly was used as décor by Milos Forman, the film director, who came to film a number of scenes about the libertine Vermont de Laclos. One has to concede that this 18th century château, with its considerable elegance, with the richness of its décors and its huge French-style gardens, had everything needed to charm the viewer.

And it's also in this region that Alfred Boucher, an accomplished sculptor, was born. He was a contemporary of Rodin and Camille Claudel, a great humanist and defender of penniless artists. A few of the works of the founder of La Ruche, in Paris, can be seen at the Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher museum at Nogent-sur-Seine.