If you are at primary or secondary school and your recreation centre leader or teachers are planning a trip to Breteuil, they can find all the information they need in downloadable format under the heading 'further information'.
If you are coming with your family, don't be worried about visiting the chateau. Whatever your age there will be lots of things for you.
You might already know some of the figures from French history who are represented as wax models from the workshops of the Musée Grévin. In any case you will be able to look at the costumes, and you will enjoy seeing the beautiful dress of the queen Marie-Antoinette and admiring the treasure of the chateau, a jewelled table created in the XVIIIth Century.
You will also learn lots of things about the life of our ancestors, and you will meet all sorts of Puss in Boots! And you will see a bathroom such as you have never seen before.
To discover the fairy tales, you will go from one scene to another. They can all be found in the outbuildings. The horrible Bluebeard is in the hunting room, and Cinderella and her young price are dancing in the lodge at the maze.
You will be able to use the map you will be given when you come in to discover the scenes. Did you know that Charles Perrault was an author in the XVIIth Century just like la Fontaine or Molière?
If you come on a Sunday, a public holiday or a day during the school holidays in the Paris region, you will be able to listen to three stories told by a story teller, at 16.30 in front of three of the scenes.
In the large park you will find a maze created entirely of box trees, games, flowers and lots of walks. You will see deer in the moats of the chateau, and if you go right down to the pools you will be able to feed bread to the ducks!
And don't forget to bring a picnic!