The Villa des Courtissous was first built in 1850 by the Froidefond and Beauregard families, and it is said that the house has always been a place of board and hospitality. Parisian families boarded here over the long summer months in the early 20th century, two French Jewish families were taken in for protection during the second world war (the Brehmer Division burnt the house down in retribution on March 30th 1944) and a small factory manufacturing enamel tiles and jewelry was housed in the Villa for 30 years until 1999 when the house was refurbished with taste and energy by the former owners, Mr and Mrs Dalibard and became once again a place of hospitality.....the upstairs rooms were turned into chambres d'hôte and the old barn into a charming holiday cottage. We have tried to keep up this more-than-a-century-old custom of hospitality and welcoming visitors into our home.

You can enjoy walks in the park, with the century-old linden and yew trees,  to see all our metal animals from Zimbabwe (they are our very quiet, easy guests!) or take a walk, a bike-ride or a drive into the surrounding countryside to see the villages, or just relax on the sunbeds around the pool. What better way to finish a day of serious sight-seeing than a glass of fine local wine on the edge of the sparkling pool!

You can use the barbecue for outside summer meals.

For those of you with a little more energy, there is table tennis, badminton, volley-ball, petanque (French street bowls) or darts in the shade of the former farm hangar which seems to have been built  for just that reason. For the kids there is also a play area.

The village is less than a mile away, and has a beautiful church, a restaurant, tennis courts, a snack bar, a bar, a small grocery store with fresh bread and newspapers.