>"La Maison Écarlate" - Technically, maison just means
>"house", not "mansion" (that would be manoir), but I think it
>flows better, so after some consideration I decided to go with a
>slight mistranslation for reasons of poetic license.
>
>If you like, imagine that when Count Victor originally moved to the
>area and built the house, it was considerably smaller than it is now,
>and though it grew into a proper mansion over the intervening
>centuries, he never changed its name.
>

I missed this note originally, or perhaps its later addition, until just now, but it amuses me to believe this is the result of a bit of joking between Count Victor and Remilia the Elder about the building barely qualifying as a guest house as far as her family was concerned, and him naming it accordingly.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Flandre's impish streak is said to come from her father after all."