Rooms
Four kinds, named after where they are
Cour
Seven rooms look into the courtyard, which means they look at the pool, the fig and a wall that has been rendered four times and shows all four.
They are the quiet rooms, since the rue de l'Aspic is pedestrian but not silent, and the courtyard is.
Aspic
Five rooms on the street, with the shutters that everyone photographs and the morning noise that comes with them.
They have the better bathrooms, because the plumbing runs up that wall and there was room to be generous.
Voûte
Two rooms on the ground floor under the same vaulting as the gaming room, with windows only onto the courtyard and stone walls three-quarters of a metre thick.
In August they are the most sought-after rooms in the house and in January nobody wants them.
Toits
Four rooms on the top floor with dormers, sloped ceilings and a view across the tiles to the top of the arena.
These are the smallest rooms and the brightest. Nothing up there is level, and the floor falls two centimetres towards the stair.
The same everywhere
- Air conditioning in every room, because July here is hot enough to need it.
- Shutters on every window, and they really do open and close.
- There are no televisions in the rooms, but there is one in the small salon by the desk.
- One ground-floor room has level access from the courtyard and a step-free bathroom; the courtyard itself is reached by a ramp from the carriage door.