Some 500 miles south-west of Paris, in the fertile hills famed for producing Armagnac brandy and foie gras, there stands a 17th-century chateau — modest by Gascony standards, but impressive enough with its soaring archways and rounded tower.
Set in the pretty village of Saint-Martin-de-Goyne, Chateau de Cadreils belongs to the family of Julie Gayet, unmasked a few days ago as Francois Hollande’s secret mistress.
And on at least one occasion, it appears, the French President may have rendezvoused with the beautiful actress behind its mossy walls.
In the finest traditions of ‘chateau socialism’, the Gayets — prominent (and extremely wealthy) members of the Left Bank liberal elite — bought the magnificent country residence eight years ago, and have spent a small fortune on restoration work.
According to villagers, divorced Julie holidays there regularly with her two teenage sons. They are usually joined by her two brothers and her parents, leading gastric surgeon Professor Brice Gayet, and his wife Anne, an antiques furniture dealer, who fly there from Paris by helicopter.
They last gathered at the chateau for Christmas, I am told, but Gayet returned to the capital a day or two before her two turn-of-the-year nocturnal liaisons with Hollande at a Paris flat were captured in the humiliating paparazzi photos that exposed their affair to the world.
Whether she was staying at the chateau on August 3 last year is yet to be established.
SOURCE-DAILYM
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