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...Together, the hotel's houses and château are known as Les Deux Abbesses (lesdeuxabbesses.com)-named after Isabel and Gabrielle de Lafayette, two 16th century mothers superior (and ancestors of the Franco-American revolutionary, Marquis de Lafayette), who used Saint-Arcons-d'Allier as their summer retreat. They would be gratified to know that the village fulfils the same function today (the hotel is closed in winter), and relieved to hear that the original architecture has been respected. The rooms come appointed with antique Auvergnat furniture, Renaissance fireplaces, and even bread ovens. (If you would rather break bread than...
...deathbed-it was partly abandoned, mostly overgrown with blackberry bushes, and as dormant as the volcanoes found in this Auvergne region of central France. Today, it's a different story. The village has come back to life, thanks to a sympathetic outsider who decided to build a hotel there. The property is neither a typical bed-and-breakfast nor a trendy health farm. Instead, it consists of 14 houses, which comprise the hotel's rooms and suites. The 9th century château is where you'll find the reception desk. And the beautiful cobbled streets are the hotel corridors...
...Paris was passing through Saint-Arcons-d'Allier in 1998 when she was struck by its underlying beauty and saw its potential. "I first rented some houses," she says, "and privately remodeled the interiors. Then I went ahead and bought some ruined ones and turned them into more hotel rooms...
...search engine (it started out as a downloadable application for your PC, and that toolbar is still available) and separate search engines for vacation packages and cruises. You can also try newcomer Kayak.com, which promises to scour more than 100 websites to find the best deals on airfare and hotel rooms-but only SideStep includes Orbitz.com listings in its search results. If you're picky about your plane seat assignment, Seat Guru provides detailed information (material, amount of legroom, location of video monitors and exit rows, whether there's a power port for your laptop nearby, etc.) by airline...
...from this period include Nabokov's career as a teacher at Wellesley and Cornell, his cross-country butterfly hunts, his friendship and falling-out with Edmund Wilson and the sensational success of Lolita, which freed Nabokov from the academy and allowed him to live in an old-style luxury hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva...