The ruins of Crozant castle, the loop of the Creuse and junction with the Sedelle.
"... Behind the wire fencing lining the platform lay a handful of industrial buildings alongside nondescript looking farmland. I had arrived in La Creuse – one of the departments the French call
la France profonde – deepest, darkest France – and apparently the country’s least-visited region, north of Limoges and 65 miles south-east of Poitiers. Within minutes, however, things started to look up: I found myself driving through rolling hills and strikingly green valleys, with overhanging hedgerows separating fields and pastures where the rust-coloured Limousin cattle were grazing in the sun. I was on a quest to find the landscape that had inspired the painter
Claude Monet, a landscape which, unlike his Rouen, Paris and London, which he painted many times, remains relatively unknown. ..."
Rapids on the Petite Creuse at Fresselines, 1889.
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