The Park

François-René de Chateaubriand called it ‘the tranquil lake’. Its legendary name is ‘Lake of Diane’. The story goes that its origin lay in the anger of an old woman who made the spring of Margatte overflow.  Each year on September 4th, the Foire de l’Angevine (Angevine Fair) takes places beside this lake.

The sense of joy this inspired, which was depicted by Chateaubriand, was as rare as it was ephemeral. It gave way to other days of the particular melancholy so dear to the famous author