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THE
ADVENTURES OF QUENTIN DURWARD filming locations
(aka QUENTIN DURWARD)
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CREDITS
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Brash,
colourful period romp from a Walter Scott story, with
a host of Brit character actors strutting their stuff.
A somewhat wooden Robert
Taylor (now there's a change) is Durward, sent by
Lord Crawford (camp old Ernest
Thesiger) to woo Countess isabelle (Kay
Kendall). Robert
Morley is the devious monarch Louis XI and George
Cole the devious gypsy spy Hayraddin. Credibility
is not the filmís strong point.
Lord Crawfordís 'Scottish' castle is
Bodiam Castle, a medieval fortress near Robertsbridge
in East Sussex.
The French locations, however, actually are in France.
The Duke of Burgundyís chateau at 'Peronne', where Durward
first meets Isabelle, is the Ch’teau
de Chambord, eleven miles east of Blois
in the Loire Valley. The largest of the Loire ch’teaux,
Chambord was built by FranÁois I between 1520 and 1535
(& 54.20.31.32, admission charge).
The court of Louis XI at 'Plessis les Tours' is another
Loire ch’teau, Ch’teau
de Chenonceau, six miles southeast of Amboise.
Built earlier than Chambord (1513-21) by tax collector
Thomas Bohier, it was later owned by FranÁois I, Henri
I – who gave it to his mistress Diane de Poitiers –
and Catherine de Medici (Henriís widow, who snatched
it back on the kingís death). Its gallery is built out
on arches over the river Cher (& 47.23.90.07, admission
charge).
There was more filming at Ch’teau
de Maintenon, twelve miles north of Chartres,
the home of Madame de Maintenon, mistress of Louis XIV,
itís now a golf club.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE
ADVENTURES OF QUENTIN DURWARD
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CHECK
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Bodiam Castle, near Robertsbridge
in East Sussex (tel:01580.830436, admission charge).
Ch’teau
de Chambord, eleven miles east of Blois
in the Loire Valley.
(& 54.20.31.32, admission charge).
Ch’teau
de Chenonceau, six miles southeast of Amboise.
(tel: 47.23.90.07, admission
charge).
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