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July 28th, 2009
Wikipedia states: 'enclosed in a maze of parks, artificial rivers and lakes, leafy avenues'. With 1/5 of the town being parks, trees and greens, this is certainly one of the most beautiful suburban cities to live in. Despite I hated visiting my grand-mother like the rest of my siblings, I still have fond memories of the surroundings. The name 'Vésinet' actually sounds terrible to the ear, an endless laughing stock particularly for my elder brother ('Le petit Vésinet qui se gratte', le 'Vésimoche'...)
Le Vésinet (Yvelines, roughly 16km West of Paris)
Coat of arms:
My grand-parents'house. 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (maybe 3 in fact), a huge garden with a massive shed. Don't be fooled, it was plain ugly and depressing!
Edit: My parents told me that they would have bought the house when it went on sale last year (owned by my grandma who died a couple of years ago) but they didn't because it reminded them of too many painful memories! Aaargh
Built on the banks of one of the artifical lakes, this house was used in the French popular TV serie from the 60's 'Belphegor, le fantôme du Louvre' (the Ghost of the Louvre museum) as 'Lady Hodwin's mansion'.
Belphegor (that leather mask always freaked me out!)
The front side of the house, as seen in the serie
The artificial lake
I also remember a house covered with fake concrete branches but I wasn't able to find it during my virtual visit (Frangin, tu vois peut-être de quoi je parle ?). Time for a little trip back to Le Vésinet!
Pics from Google maps street view and http://www.blog-vesinet.fr