Le Maine Giraud Manor ,Champagne-Vigny,Poitou-Charentes,France. Editorial Photo

Le Maine Giraud manor - now in part a museum remembering Alfred de Vigny, the 19th century romantic poet - was built and altered between the 12th and the 15th centuries, and belonged to Vigny between 1827 until his death in 1863. Vigny inherited it from his aunt Sophie de Baraudin, who was his mother`s elder sister. He had first seen it in 1823, when he was 26 and a military captain, and had been