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5-10-1919
To day being sunday I go on strike as usual. Being late in starting & rather than spoil an excellent dinner we change our plans & start for St German en laye.
In the town itself there is nothing save the chapel which Maurice Denys has erected to memory of his femme & which is private & more not yet finished. The church into which I did not enter contains a bust of James II (erected by Geo IV) who occupied chateau for 12 yrs.
On other side was another palais of which rests only Pavilion Henri IV. It was at the chateau that peace with Austria was signed. The building [A small sketch here] is strange not being built square but roughly like plan. The effect is not pleasing.
The cheauteau is not pretty being built for strength as huge moat indicates but it has none of dignity of old strongholds for [her] one has tried to make it beautiful as well as strong. Brickwork white & red alternated. Statues in bay windows – Effect is heavy.
Building itself is occupied for most as residence for guardian what is left is a musee of everything in French history of early times down to [Carolingians]. Not of much interest except to students. The