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| | Guardian Unlimited Travel | Hotels | Chantilly cream |
 | | Built as a hunting base in 1911 by a French composer, Château Mont Royal sits on a hill surrounded by the Chantilly forest, 25km north of Paris. |
 | | The road from Château Mont Royal passes directly in front of Chantilly chateau - in fact two chateaux - the Petit, dating back to the early 1500s, and the Grand, a fairytale castle built by the Duke d'Aumale between 1822 and 1897. |
 | | Chantilly forest was once the hunting ground of France's elite - now it is crisscrossed with bridleways and cycle paths and open to everyone, and Chantilly is more famous for horseracing. |
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