Melancholy Change

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Speaking of entrances, Architectural Digest has an article about the “15 of the World’s Most Historically Significant Doors ” which, unsuprisingly, include many that are affixed to religious and stately structures. The oldest of the 15 belongs to Chepstow Castle and its “lattice-patterned doors [that] have protected this historic stone fortification in Mouthshire, Wales, since 1190, making them the oldest castle doors in Europe.”

About the author

Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature “in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament”.