History of the Bean Family page 32.
My Great Uncle

A small memorandum from a Ross paper relating to Major Willoughby Bean (the "Old Major") runs thus:

"My communicative guide further indicated with special interest, what she termed a 'pointed' house from its conspicuous high gale end in the town of Amboise, near the Place on Commerce under the Castle of Amboise on the east side and and beyond a quadrilateral court of a tannery establishment, as being for some years the dwelling of a much respected English family: and for that reason the house was called "La Maison Bene". Upon further inquiry, it was found that the late Major Willoughby Bean of His Majesty's Guards had resided there. He was kinsman to one of our most County Magistrates, lived to a very advanced age, and died in the City of Bath: famed for longevity quietude and refinement, some 14 years since, as recorded in the pages of the "Landed Gentry".