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Linen care in the 18th century


If the visit to the castle allows you to discover the life of two extraordinary characters, Voltaire and the Marquise du Châtelet, the guided tour for the 2023 season also allows you to discover an aspect of daily life in the 18th century, laundry care. .

Bed linen, table linen, body linen, linen accompanies us throughout our days and nights. But how did we go about washing, ironing and storing this linen at the time of the Marquise du Châtelet? So many questions that the visit offers you to answer. Drying, cold pouring, hot pouring, redrawing, braising irons, ingot irons, and the final step, tightening the linen will be told and presented to you.

The opportunity to see for the first time part of the castle's important collection of irons.
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