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Over five years of visits to his holiday home in the Dordogne, graphic designer Keith Godard painstakingly noted the roof colours, window arrangements and design of buildings along every street of the town of Belvès to create a map that looks like it has belonged there for centuries.

Once, Chambord was famous for being the empty palace where the kings of France rarely set foot, surrounded by a forest that was later only accessible to those in presidential favour. Now, Francis I’s ‘Utopia’ is being restored to its former glory, as Gary Lee Kraut finds out