Parc du Château de Combourg

The woods of Combourg were redesigned as an English-style park by the Bühler brothers during the 19th-century restoration of the château.

Denis and Eugène Bühler drew inspiration from the descriptions of François-René de Chateaubriand in his *Mémoires d’outre-tombe* (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave). The spirit of the famous writer still lingers here. Even today, one can walk past Lucile’s cross and soak in the atmosphere that prompted him to say, when François-René spoke of his solitude, “You should paint all this.”

See this false cypress, now nearly 250 years old, which has borne the aptly named “Remarkable Tree” label since 2012. Sit on the steps and gaze upon the Green Courtyard, the avenues of chestnut and linden trees, just as François-René did. Moving between the Chateaubriand Rose, named in 2010 during the Medieval Flower Festival, and the Sweet Delight Rose, which received the award for best fragrance in 2013 at Bagatelle and was planted and named during the Medieval Flower Festival of 2014.