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Article: Baffled by Byron's taste.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2002
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Byline: PETRONELLA WYATT
HARTWELL House is in the Relais and Chteaux guide, the crEme de la creme of hotel books. It is a part-Jacobean, part-Georgian stately home, in which Louis XVIII lived while in exile. When he returned to France, Byron wrote: "Why wouldst thou leave calm Hartwell's green abode ...
Apician table and Horatian ode?"
As a lover of history and an admirer of Byron's taste, I felt irresistibly drawn to the hotel. The brochure made Hartwell seem even more alluring, with its photograph of verdant gardens partially obscuring a house bathed in sunlight.
I decided to take my mother as a treat. As we drove up the gravel ...