A little know fact about France's last queen: she was a great lover of the natural world, or at least her idealized version of it. So she had a facsimile of a small country village built on the palace grounds with a productive farm and garden.
A visit to this place feels kind of like a visit to one of those "historic villages" we have in the states where everything is supposed to look like it did in colonial times. Except in this case it was built by the Queen of France, in the 1700s.
On my recent trip I came across many fantastic animals in Antoinette's Hamlet, but took no photo more idyllic than this one featuring a swan communing with a heron.
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