chanteuil

Updated: May 18, 2025

"At Chanteuil I first learnt how to think, or rather how to converse with myself as I had before done with other persons; I also found for the first time that I did not dislike my own company." In June he went south, sailing from Brest to Bordeaux, and then descending by land into Spain, where he remained till August.

Arthur Christopher Benson - Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge : Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College

He travelled through Normandy into Brittany, spending two months at a little village called Chanteuil, not far from the Point du Sillon. Here he wandered about mostly alone, dressed in the roughest possible costume, and allowing his beard to grow.

Arthur Christopher Benson - Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge : Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College