France, Seine-Maritime, Pays de Caux, Totes, l'auberge du cygne (Swan Inn), former relay of the Royal Mail, it would have hosted such personalities as D'Artagnan, Madame de Pompadour, Louis-Philippe I, Napoleon I and the Empress Josephine etc and was the place where Guy de Maupassant wrote Boule de Suif (in which the hostel is very present) and where Gustave Flaubert wrote part of Madame Bovary, Count Geoffroy De Belloy De Saint-LinÚard whose family has owned the Inn since the late 17th century

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Location: Seine Maritime
Photo credit: © RIEGER Bertrand / hemis.fr / Alamy / Afripics
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