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Following the D84 from Azay-le-Rideau eastwards along the north bank of the Indre you get glimpses of various privately owned chateaux. North of the hamlet of La Sablonniere, on the top of a hill surrounded by vines with beautiful views of the Indre valley and the village of SACHE , is where Alexander Calder, sculptor of mobiles and stabiles, had his last atelier . He also worked at LA CHEVRIERE just down the slope to the east. An Alexander Calder mobile decorates the main square of Sache, but it is Balzac who gets the honours here. The house where he often stayed and wrote several of his novels, notably the locally set Le Lys dans la Vallee , is inevitably a Musee Balzac (daily: Feb to mid-March 9.30am-noon & 2-5pm; mid-March to June & Sept 9am-noon & 2-6pm; July & Aug 9.30am-6.30pm; Oct & Nov 9am-noon & 2-5pm; closed Dec & Jan; 21F/?3.20).
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