Experience 18th-Century Luxury at a Paris Château with 100 Acres of Gardens
— a hotel in an 18th-century château an hour west of Paris — was that the gardener is treated with as much reverence as the celebrity chef.
Gérard Germaine, the gardener in question, was originally hired by the estate’s former owner, the French actress Catherine Deneuve. More than a decade later, he still tends the 100 acres, which were designed by 20th-century Belgian landscape architect Jacques Wirtz — including a semi-wild rose garden with more than 250 varieties.