In a letter from Dino to de Barante of 5 July 1828,Jean-Luc Péchinot (1995) La duchesse de Dino, dernier amour de Talleyrand, le Magazine de La Touraine, no. 55, p. 58 she writes "I have a true passion for Rochecotte; to me, it is the most beautiful view and the most beautiful country in the world; at last this is an air which makes me live lightly and then I arrange, I return, I embellish, I appropriate... I took up country life to the letter."
