Crossword-Solution: RIDEAU 6 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Their château was built by the Brissac of Henri IV.’s time and is one of the few that escaped uninjured through the Revolution, its vast stone corridors and massive oak ceilings, its moat and battlements, standing to-day unimpaired amid a group of châteaux including Chaumont, Rochecotte, Azay-le-Rideau, Ussé, Chenonceau, within “dining” distance of each other, that form a centre of gayety next in importance to Paris and Cannes.

She would keep back some piece of news during dinner to be fired off with the entrance of the supper tray, and form as it were the _lever de rideau_ of the evening’s entertainment.

But I was rather thinking just now of _Le Rideau Cramoisi_, and its adorable setting of the stopped coach, the dark street, the home-going in the inn yard, and the red blind illuminated.

What a work is the _Rideau Cramoisi_! and _L’Ensorcelée_! and _Le Chevalier Des Touches_! This is degenerating into mere twaddle.

She decided that I should spend a few weeks at Frapesle, a chateau on the Indre midway between Montbazon and Azay-le-Rideau, which belonged to a friend of hers, to whom, no doubt, she gave private instructions.