1. The Inn that inspired “Les Miserables”

While Victor Hugo was staying at the hotel and writing Les Miserables, he took breakfast in the courtyard…

The Hotel de France and Relais du Roy Restaurant is a uniquely historic property. Dating rear to 1578, the Hotel de France and Relais du Roy restaurant remain structurally unaltered, with huge master coach doors and cobble-stoned court, still bearing testimony to the earned run average when horse draw carriages were the only means of long distance change of location. nowadays a Grade 1 listed building, it is the oldest coaching Inn in Montreuil-sur-Mer .

“ lupus erythematosus Relais du Roy ” or Place of Kings Restaurant named as such because it was frequented by the Kings of France and England traveling between London and Paris. This was the original coach route that passed through the town of Montreuil sur Mer. The décor features fagot lights on the wooden ceiling beams, flower lights and huge painted tulips on the walls with imposing Louis XVI gilded mirrors and newly flowers on the tables. The restaurant can cater up to 80 diners in summer when it is potential to enjoy the balmy outdoor air in the flower filled court .

Situated across the court from the Hotel de France is the, The Hotel de France was the coach hostel featured in Les Miserables. In this like cobble court. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte stepped from his coach to stay at the hotel en road to one of his many battles .

The Hotel de France can sleep 40 guests in 14 classifiable and individually decorated bedrooms en cortege and two apartments, amply equipped, with 2 double bedrooms en cortege, surrounding a charming and historic cobblestoned court .

During 1765 the writer Laurence Stern spent time at the hotel while writing his celebrated book Sentimental Journey. Towards the end of World War I, Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig used the hotel as his operations headquarters. other eminent visitors to the Hotel de France and Relais du Roy include, Gerard Depardieu !
For sale at €1,260,000

2. The Brocante Hotel

Great potential for a boutique hotel or keep as a magnificent family home. The main house comprises 5 bedrooms with 4 en suite bathrooms, large dining room, living room, kitchen and an intriguing servants corridor. Separately, there is a independent building of 120m2 which could be developed into further accommodation or kept as an antiques ‘brocante’. Located in St Jean D’Angely, Charente Maritime, Poitou Charentes.

For sale at €551,200.

3. The Cinderella Hotel

Located in the good region of Berry, south of Paris, set amongst ancient forests, lakes and rolling countryside, this dramatic and beautifully restored Château is operating as an exceeding boutique Hotel, however, it would suit besides being a european bodied headquarters, or the ultimate dream wedding venue .

Built in the reign of King Louis XI around 1470, the Château was created as a fortress, with fourteen towers and two drawbridges to protect its inhabitant ; the King ’ s adviser at that time. The Chateau is of course ‘ Classified ’ as a repository of historical matter to and its bewitching history through the ages has been carefully documented. Outside in the 37 acre individual park, is a 12m ten 6m inflame swimming pool and tennis court .



The 23 bedroom hotel is for sale at €7 million. There ’ s a similarly huge castle hotel for half the price here. 

4. The Fixer-Upper

Dating back to the seventeenth hundred, and built on the grounds of a roman liquidation, you can just feel the history of the station when you walk about. This chateau is one of France ’ randomness listed historical monuments .


The ground deck living quarters of the chateau have been character renovated, the beginning floor has three very roomy en-suite bedrooms with work to be finished ( all the major work has been done ). numerous thousand dependences to be restored .

Perched on a hill overlooking all the countryside and within walking outdistance to a minor village with a school, a legal profession and a bakers .

Located in Marmande, Lot et Garonne, Aquitaine, for sale at €477,000.

5. An Artist’s Retreat in the Alps

Chateau in Aix Les Bains, Savoie, French Alps, has fantastic development potential despite needing all new modern sanitation, heating and roofing work to be completed… sits in it ’ s own park of 2.7 hectares and is enclosed by the original stone wall and work cast-iron gates. There is a discriminate paddock for horses plus stable measuring 60 M² .

For sale at €1,040,000

6. A 1960s Townhouse Hotel with Potential

Love that bathetic sixties bar !

The build up used to be a popular bar/restaurant but is now empty. On the ground floor there is a big very light and airy open room looking onto the squarely with fountain.
Because of its position central in the town, it could be a cover girl BB or boutique hotel. even a restaurant .

Located in Clairac, Lot et Garonne, Aquitaine, for sale at €98,000

7. An Abandoned Ski Resort Chalet in need of some TLC

A once beautiful 18 bedroom hotel is in need of TLC Located in thes ski recourse La Feclaz. All offers considered
This once very fantastic hotel commercial enterprise has sadly been closed for respective years due to family bereavements
• The Bon Gite Hotel is in necessitate of a raw harmonic owner who will spend time and money to restore it.
• The solve necessary is extensive but the rewards that will follow can lone add up to make this a good investing for many years to come .
This hotel has been left united nations attended for several years and will need damaged areas fixed immediately
There is a minor dinner dress dining sphere with open fire invest, a larger walk in restaurant or coffee shop and a memento sphere leading off the chief road offering an extra income opportunity to either lease out or integrate into the independent hotel business .
18 Rooms .

Located in the ski resort La Feclaz, in the French Alps, for sale at €178,000

8. A Louis XI hunting lodge

private gates secluded shape the main road mean the château is not visible from the exterior. Gate lodge residence comprises living outer space, 2 sleeping areas, toilet, kitchen. Up the sweep repel to the main sign of the zodiac with a breathtaking view of the Forest surrounding it. beautiful Fuye ( dovecot ) from the sixteenth Century accessible and suitable for renovation .
11 en-suite bedrooms and one 2-bedroom apartment with toilet, all decorated to a very feasible standard. The chateau is presently used as a wedding venue which works very well in high season .




13 bedrooms, 20 hectares forest, enough of likely, for sale at €1,727,250 

9. French Fawlty Towers

A brilliant nineteenth Century Chateau with 10 ensuite bedrooms, gite and 2 pools. It has been run as an hotel and restaurant for the last 28 years by the stream owner who has now retired leaving an incredible opportunity for person to acquire this fully functioning business ( since 1962 ) though the business would need to be negotiated individually. Constructed in 1870 it was the family of one of George Sand ’ second doctors but now finds itself as a perfect weekend pickup for affluent Parisians or a stop for travellers heading farther south and wanting to break up the long drive .
Each bedroom has been decorated to give its own alone feel and to a identical high standard equitable like the perch of the chateau .



Located La Chatre, Indre, Centreor sale at €890,400

10. Antique Hunter’s Weekend Bed & Breakfast

Within easy distance of the pretty grocery store township of Montbron and surrounded by gentle rolling hills, for which the Charente region is known, this would make an ideal pickup from antique hunters and charming village seekers .

This nineteenth century Château retains all the elegant architectural features one would hope for, combined with a warm area feel. Set in a generous, but very manageable park of 4.3 hectares ( around 10 acres ), along the border of which the reasonably Tardoire River continues its path through this Charente / Périgord region .

For sale at €1,459,500