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The Importance of a Pavillion
I'd love to live in a house where there's an orangery. It just automatically makes you feel good that word, doesn't it? Because it's something warm and exotic and rightly colored. At the weekend I met up with someone who now runs the Jane Austenhouse at Chorton in Hampshire. But previously she was running the home of George Bernard Shaw for the National Trust. And in his garden, he has a small pavilion where he used to do his writing. A pavilion is a relative of papillon, French for butterfly,. because a pavilion originally was a bit like a marquee, with sort of canvases stretched out like long arms, or indeed like
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