How To Use Chateau In A Sentence
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True to form, the finished 2003 wines delivered record-breaking levels of tannin, sugar and alcohol; many châteaux have made clarets weighing in at 15 per cent-plus alcohol, as in Australia and California.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now, we're going to taste the chateau musar (ph) '95.
CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2003
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One of these, Chåteau Rauzan-Ségla, a grand cru classé winery in the Margaux region, is celebrating its 350thanniversaryby releasing its 2009 Bordeaux with a label designed and signed by Karl Lagerfeld himself.
Mary Orlin: Tasting Notes on Wine and Style
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The best of the chateaux make outstanding wines that improve with age, in taste and often in value.
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When he came to what I called my chateau, from nowhere, going nowhere, I hardly knew whether to call him young or old.
Back to God's Country and Other Stories
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Life in the French chateaux continued more or less unchanged by the French Revolution, during which only about twelve hundred members of the nobility were guillotined, leaving the vast majority lying low but alive.
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall of that French château!
The Sun
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Went down stairs for dinner around 9pm where we were waited upon by a Chateau waiter who was fully obsessive compulsive and actually came by to "straighten" my silver wear at one point and bullied us into all ordering the same beverage.
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Belle acknowledged them briefly as she entered the chateau.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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This chateau makes wine for Old World claret drinkers rather than for the powerful New World wine critic, Robert Parker.
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From the time of the arrival of the Empress we were in a state of terrible apprehension, and every one in the chateau was a prey to the greatest anxiety in regard to the Emperor.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Here we're not talking chateaubriand and Kobe steaks, but briskets of beef and hot pastrami sandwiches the size of combat boots.
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Châteaubriand or à la Béarnaise are no longer a mystery, or that one who can make clear meat jelly and roast a chicken has learned all but the arrangement of a _chaudfroid_ in aspic -- will make apparently complicated dishes simple.
Choice Cookery
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The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’
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Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du Château de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra.
Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011
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He insisted he would never become a high-maintenance pop star, but now says his favourite food when eating out is foie gras pate, Chateaubriand steak and sorbet, washed down with champagne.
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The scenery was like a travel brochure: châteaux and forests slid by in the distance.
THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
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Based on a traditional steak and mushroom pie, the dish includes $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef fillet, $3,330 in Chinese matsutake mushrooms (which are so rare that they are grown under the watchful eyes of armed guards), two bottles of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild at a cost of about $4,200 each, as well as black truffles and gold leaf.
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He has removed chateaubriand and replaced fillet steak with ribeye.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crowd began to uncouple from their conversations, and Floyd launched his dinghy onto the dark waters of the Chateau de Ville Ballroom and Function Facilities.
Nuptial Indemnity
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Imagine nature's bounty matching up to the lavish interiors of the chateau.
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Lovely food from local market, a little private 'piscine' in our jardin, some trips to see the chateaux at Usse and Azay-le-Rideau and a spot of wine-tasting for good measure...
Francophilia!
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Chateau Robin in the Touraine is a chalk cliff that rises above the road to the height of sixty feet and is crowned by a tumulus.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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Surely it's worth stepping off at Tours, taking in a Loire chateau or two, before haring down to the Atlantic.
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The most we got were carefully conducted tours of French châteaux.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Installed at the château, the Abbé Boiviel conformed himself with a very good grace to the monachal existence led by its inmates.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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This morning, Maxence and I went for a stroll towards Barbès and Chateau-Rouge, part of the 18th arrondissement, just a few blocks from where we live.
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Now, the west wing of the chateau is the most modern part and there's nothing there that this could represent.
Salvage for the Saint
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An enceinte marked by the towers and machicolated balconies stretches along the Seine in front of the château.
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In a high-profile speech to lawmakers in the historic chateau at Versailles, Sarkozy said the head-to-toe Muslim body coverings were in disaccord with French values _ some of the strongest language against burqas from a European leader at a time when some Western officials have been seeking to ease tensions with the Muslim world.
Paris Pool Denies Muslim Woman For Wearing Burqini
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It a little tricky getting the blend just right," said Mr. Shaffer, an agronomy consultant based in Honaunau, Hawaii, who has consulted for vintners including Chateau Montelena.
San Francisco Garbage Helps Make Vineyards Thrive
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He has removed chateaubriand and replaced fillet steak with ribeye.
Times, Sunday Times
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My companions hurriedly dropped me off at Chateaubelair, near Richmond, leaving me to wade ashore waist deep.
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Tall, dark trees rose in ordered majesty about the château, and before it a wide band of lawn, called a tapis vert, ran to the lodge-gates that opened on the highroad.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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Romantic chateaux and castles overlook the river's twisting course.
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Literary romanticism, of which Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael were the harbingers, owed its existence to a longing for a greater fulness of thought, a greater intenseness of feeling, a greater appropriateness and adequateness of expression, and, above all, a greater truth to life and nature.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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How wonderful to live "dans un appartement niché en haut d'un joli château"!
Lié - French Word-A-Day
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Located in the Vendée, it is the definition of fairytale, with "floating" towers on the corners of the chateau and flamboyant interiors featuring unicorn taxidermy and chandeliers.
Nouveau riches: what's new in France
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When you meet a chateau owner in Bordeaux, his hands are smooth and he's wearing a foulard.
Burgundy: When It's Good, It's Very, Very Good...
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* Looking out my Aunt's guestroom window, I watched dark cordes* of rain soak the town of Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
French Word-A-Day:
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But allow me to propose a spin-off, in which the British-born textile maven and author would walk us through the grand European manors and chateaus she's frequented.
Monastic Fantastic
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We spent nearly every weekend and holiday for the last 10 years in a cold, dirty, drafty, smoky, uncomfortable place - our own chateau.
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“We suspected them at one time of being the leaders of what they call the château gang.”
Maigret and the Informer
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Chateaubriand is getting what you call a bore; and the whole city is mad about a new opera by Boieldieu.
Vivian Grey
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I just spent 3 weeks near La Cadiere (Bandol) and the vendage was in full swing at the Chateau we have been staying at for 10 years each Sept. I love to cook there so fixed your pizza with mustard on brise pastry.
Liaison - French Word-A-Day
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For his part, Parker contends he is responsible for nothing more than elevating the overall quality of wines by penalizing those who fashion overcropped, diluted, substandard wine marketed as liquid sunlight behind the banner of a famous château’s crest.
Investing in Liquid Assets
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LOL ... the first time was in Montmartre .. (closer to the Moulin Rouge tho). .and the other time, in front of the Chateau de Vincennes.
Brouillon - French Word-A-Day
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Kathy Chateau, 54, of St. Clair Shores will be at the liberal conference in Detroit because she said she's fed up with the church's views on women and what she calls its lack of accountability over issues such as child abuse.
Competing conferences show division among U.S. Catholics
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The children go to the utterly deserted wooden boardwalk in front of the Chateau Frontenac.
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As the classification in Burgundy is given to the vineyard, not to the château or the domaine, the quality of the wine can vary tremendously when a vineyard changes hands.
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I just spent 3 weeks near La Cadiere (Bandol) and the vendage was in full swing at the Chateau we have been staying at for 10 years each Sept. I love to cook there so fixed your pizza with mustard on brise pastry.
Liaison - French Word-A-Day
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It had the flavour, the fullness, the richness, the dryness and the length of a proper Chateauneuf du Pape.
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Blessed with excellent terroir and fine chateaux, this could be the area that can push fine Bordeaux onto the table of more Americans.
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Next door to the Bowmer, Chateaulin offers a Euro-style menu, including scrumptious marinated goat cheese on toast fingers.
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He at once wrote Gutel a missive so thickly interlarded with quotations from the Song of Solomon, from Goethe, Petofi, Heine, and Chateaubriand, that when Kalimann read the billet-doux to the blushing girl her head was quite turned.
Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
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I am anxious lest the little line I wrote you may bring you back; reassure me and tell me you are still at Marseille [the château de Marseille in Picardy].
The Ruin of a Princess
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He worked in restaurants in France, Washington and Germany before landing the job of sous-chef at L'Ermitage Bernard Ravet in Vufflens-le-Château, Switzerland.
Bringing the Old World Into the New
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The stay was arranged in collaboration with a hotel school in Chateau Chinon on the outskirts of Beaune in the heart of the Burgundy region.
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Russian businessmen, now regulars at Davos, own American steel mills, African gold mines, French chateaus, and British sports teams.
The Return
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For instance, one of the top wines made in the legendary vintage of 1990 was Sociando-Mallet, a low-ranked château (with an official rating of cru bourgeois) that consistently makes some of the best wines of the region.
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No doubt they would return and place him with the other Commando dead in neat rows in front of the Chateau to await burial.
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Among the visitors at the chateau was the Baron de Saint Foix, an old friend of the Count, and his son, the Chevalier St. Foix, a sensible and amiable young man, who, having in the preceding year seen the Lady Blanche, at Paris, had become her declared admirer.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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The hotel ballroom was also full of famous bottles from the great chateaux of Bordeaux and these two California wines held their own without a problem.
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The chateau was inherited by Marigny from his father in 1754 and in the same year its seigneurie was elevated into a marquisate, giving Marigny the title by which he is generally known.
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Jadot makes the Chateau des Jacques wines like they make their red burgundies - in other words, with no or very little carbonic maceration.
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The château offers one inclusive price.
Times, Sunday Times
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Impervious to scandalized looks from better dressed diners, I slowly ate, with Humber's establishment in mind, a perfect and enormous dinner of lobster, duck bigarade, lemon souffle, and brie, and drank most of a bottle of Chateau Leauville Lescases 1948.
For Kicks
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall of that French château!
The Sun
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Nebbou wisely lets the story and performances speak for themselves, confining his personal flourishes mainly to an extravagant "orientalist" ball that Dumas stages at his chateau.
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If you do decide to travel to Châteauneuf to take in the warm sun and charming wines, don't expect a guided tour of the pope's old crib.
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By the way, he suggested we look over the chateau in the morning.
FINAL RESORT
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Remember that in matrimony, as in everything else it is the premier "bloomer" which blows up les châteaux en Espagne.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
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Bon..., cela dit, ... la prochaine fois que Kristin ira à Châteauneuf-du-Pape, j'espère qu'elle prendra quelques photos de maisons typiques, comme vous nous les décrivez - avec quelques marches, petit perron, grille de protection et plantes fleuries, minuscule porte au ras de la rue …
La routine - French Word-A-Day
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This space also holds many, many portrait miniatures and paperweights, not to mention drinking glasses and tableware from the various imperial chateaux.
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Now the bunny has licence to roam all over the flat and even has his very own Chateaux Lapin: a rabbit castle, complete with turrets.
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Five of the chateau soldiers were killed and Benjamin had a small cut high on his cheek.
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However, on August 26th, a British rearguard guarding the retreat of the bulk of the BEF did sustain 8,000 casualties at the Battle of Le Chateau.
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Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille.
Travel
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One of the foremost clubs in London one day changed its cook; and its members were astonished to find that the steak which had formerly been served to them under the name filet de boeuf was now always announced as a Chateaubriand.
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It took many years to restore this fine, moated 17th century château and its cellars.
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I'd put down a couple of overnighters at Turnberry as part of my ‘Exceptional Needs Allowance’, which included one receipt for a very pleasant bottle of '99 Chateau Beychevelle St Julien, which came in at £50 a pop.
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As agents for a chain of castles in Scotland and Ireland, in addition to French châteaux, Italian villas and Swiss chalets, they will even charter you a yacht.
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For the châteaux and wine merchants it is a nightmare.
Times, Sunday Times
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The objects he purchased included a Henri II boiserie, an iron gate from the Chateau de Versailles, and Italian Renaissance furniture.
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Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns.
The Pity of War
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Today it stands half-forgotten in the woods behind the Chateau de Rambouillet, in Rambouillet, denuded of its furnishings, its elegant porcelains, and most of its sculptures.
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Among other treats, they enjoyed roast duckling, chateau potatoes, and creamed carrots.
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He has a pretty house in the Parc Monceau and a chateau of some importance in the Haute-Vienne.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The king of such devices is the divine Chateau Laguiole cleaver, which is available from Terroirs from around £80 in a variety of burnished woods including pistachio and olive wood.
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Seems yon vicar changed the water authority into a distillery overnight, producing the best-ever vintage to flow out of Chateau Accrington.
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Françoise de Foix, comtesse de Châteaubriant, held this position from about 1516 until 1530, when she was ousted by this woman, who remained the king's mistress until his death in 1547.
Quiz #2
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I was in Prague within two months and went with this realtor to see four chateaus within an hour's driving proximity of Prague.
EXCLUSIVE: Crispin Glover's Creepy Prague Castle
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Fixed "wade" water sound not playing correctly on maps like Chateau.
Voodoo Extreme
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Beneath the old chateau dances a mountain brook, cold from the Jura; in the great courtway is a fountain and fish-pond, and all around are flowering plants and stately palms.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
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However, he must be a man of means, as he has given her a charming flat, beautifully decorated with water-colours which the Colonel salved from the French château in the early days -- these army fellows had all the chances.
The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne
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The chateau on the northern outskirts is a strongpoint of bunkers connected by tunnels, surrounded by dense minefields and barbed wire.
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Vieux-Chateau, conseiller et premier écuyer tranchant de mondit très-redouté seigneur;
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
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Instead I'll make one up: Chateau Parerre Fantoinette with a twist of lemon.
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Find a great island or château hideaway.
Times, Sunday Times
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The location is excellent for walking, and well situated for touring the abbeys and chateaux of the Bordeaux and Bergerac regions.
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She is a lady you don't refuse - mistress of the chateau and a domaine the size of a village.
Times, Sunday Times
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Baedeker, or other guide-book, with its maps of any historic dwelling and its surroundings, from Chantilly or Fontainebleau to minor ones, to see that this plan, originally devised for the pleasure, success and safety [Page: 137] of the hunt, and later adapted to domination and defence, became next appreciated as affording the finest possible perspectives of the palatially rebuilt chateau.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
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Châteaux and villas and splendid rents, all waiting to be gormandized by the State!
The Lure of the Mask
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Belle acknowledged them briefly as she entered the chateau.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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At some unknown point later, this double-magnum bottle of Chateau Latour is bought by a wine enthusiast and restaurant owner from Tampa.
NPR Topics: News
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Here we're not talking chateaubriand and Kobe steaks, but briskets of beef and hot pastrami sandwiches the size of combat boots.
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A few kilometres further on we reached the "bizarre monticule," from which sprouted a still more bizarre château.
The Princess Passes
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But as incredible as it seems, this wine is a dead ringer for a $ 60 Chateau Beaucastel Vieilles Vignes.
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The chateau was a frame structure of twenty-eight rooms, lavishly furnished with Oriental rugs and imported Sheraton furniture.
THE AMERICAN WEST
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Suddenly, the majesty of the Alps and the chateaus on the Loire faded to gray behind your baby blue eyes and the halo of your golden curls.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
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Returning I was forced into a byroad by the column, lost my way, took the wrong road out of the town, but managed in about a couple of hours to pick up the Signal Co., which by this time had reached the Chateau at
Adventures of a Despatch Rider
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Chateau La Lagune" for the French Bordeaux grape wine in the third level of wine village.
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Those with profoundly deep pockets or just insuppressible good taste can enjoy a bottle of the 2001 Chateau Lafite Rothschild Rs. 28,000 or $627.
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Thanks to Patrick and Madeleine Rigard, who have owned the chateau for the last nine years, their young and attentive staff, and the spoiling ministrations of their chef de cuisine, Alain Gouraud, Chaumontel fairly bustles with life.
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Past various buskers, mimes and outdoor performance artists we slowly made our way towards the Empress Hotel, a gorgeous chateau-style grand hotel dating back to 1908.
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Madrid 4. This château was the seat of Henry II, Angevin King and King of England, and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine; it was here that Joan of Arc persuaded Charles VII to declare himself king and raise an army to liberate France; in 1562, Henri IV turned it into a state prison.
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French actor and winemaker born in Chateauroux, France, Depardieu has been nominated for an Academy Award for his movie, Cyrano de Bergerac and a Golden Globe for Best Actor in the film, Green Card.
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Venture off the beaten track, though, and you'll find some interesting attractions that might lack the grandness of the big chateaux, but have a real character all their own.
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The wines are continually tasted, and when he judges that they have reached their peak, they are carefully blended to create the chateau's premier cru vintage wine.
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The château itself is open to the public and houses a museum of motorcycles and cars.
The Wine Roads of France
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Joachim, who arranged for the purchase, informs me that the château was designed by Mansart, the architect of Versailles, and that it is famed for its gardens.
The Last Great Dance on Earth
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Chateaubriand said truly that: "le talent de George Sand a quelque ratine dans la corruption, elle deviendrait commune en devenant timoree.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Then, under a starry sky, we ate chateaubriand at a candlelit table on the lakeside veranda of the hotel, hoping the night would never end.
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Undaunted by the opaque mix of fact and fantasy surrounding the French noblesse and their chateaux, he has transposed to France the lines of enquiry pioneered in his acclaimed Life in the English Country House.
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Chateaubriand, the founder of romanticism, and his compositions had extensive and comprehensive influence over French society and Romantic Movement.
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When finally their friends the Bernois and their enemies of Fribourg proposed to install Jean provisionally at Gruyère under the protection of an armed force, the countess thought prudent to retire, leaving the château to the management of her chatelain.
The Counts of Gruyère
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Even by Wanaka property standards, tilting in their more grandiose fancies towards southern Tuscan or colonial chateaux, the house is a beaut.
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At the summit of the Sauternes appellation is the world famous Chateau d' Yquem.
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Château, close to Ypres, and the Transport to a disused brickfield west of Vlamertinghe.
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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They are champions of the avant-garde, which explains how they come to be marooned for a fortnight in a chateau in the middle of a Belgian forest rehearsing a piece called Partitum Mutande.
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The interview lasted from the 7th to the 24th of June 1520, and there the chronicler describes how the two Kings "se virent et parlementerent ensemble après midi environ les vespres, en la terre dudit Roy d'Angleterre, en une petite vallée nommée le valdoré entre ladite ville d'Ardres et le château de Guynes.
The Story of Rouen
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I started with a warm duck and pate salad and followed that with chateaubriand, which was absolutely melt-in-the-mouth.
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All the chateaus I looked at were interesting for various reasons but there was only one that had structures and land available that could be used to house sets.
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And to be preternaturally sincere, I prefer a well-aired bottle of Chateauneuf-de-Pape and a nice Saumon-au-Beurre over beer and barbecue any day.
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Belle acknowledged them briefly as she entered the chateau.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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The first named on the south side of the river formed part of the ancient "enceinte" of the first château of Philip of Alsace, and was erected in the twelfth century, and famed with the château of Lille, as the most formidable strongholds of Flanders.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
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Just behind the chateau was a wee village of dug-outs.
Adventures of a Despatch Rider
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Having come upon the earliest mosques of Cairo, Chateaubriand proclaims not the Muslim caliphs nor their architects to be the origin of Islamic architectural grandeur; rather he romanticizes a legacy stretching back four millennia.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
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I am only there to carry the parcels and to push Isabelle's pram, but it is a glimpse of life outside the chateau.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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A few châteaux produce and market the result as a '' third wine '', although most examples end up on merchants 'lists as' 'defrocked' 'claret under a generic name.
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By the way, he suggested we look over the chateau in the morning.
FINAL RESORT
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Interviewing him can be like approaching a hungry bear with a slab of chateaubriand in your pocket: you should expect to get bitten.
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Let the portcullis fall! "wondering what a" portcullis "was, and if I should ever see one or even a château-fort.
Chateau and Country Life in France
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The Hollywood stars were famously rumoured to have romped in an elevator at Los Angeles' Chateau Marmont hotel.
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Equally driven is Jana's husband, Antoine, who gave up working as a banker in the city three years ago and now spends every third week at the château 40 kilometres from Bordeaux running the vineyard.
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Her Chateau de Bellevue was on the edge of the Meudon Forest, with a long view of the Seine Valley down to Paris, and with the Sevres potteries tucked under the escarpment.
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The pair found a common passion for Gothic literature and visited the Château de Chillon, about which Byron wrote "The Prisoner of Chillon.
Byron in Paradise
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It is still possible to find real jewels in the Parisian countryside, private family chateaux which, while not strictly speaking hotels, are happy to accommodate guests.
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Frontier Travel (020-8776 8709; frontier-travel. co.uk) offers return flights to Quebec via Montreal with Air Canada, and four nights at the Fairmont Chateau Frontenac for £675 per person, with a fifth night at Au Pays des Hurons First Nations site from £72 per person, including quinzhee building.
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Another possible location to view the chateau unobstructed from the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was first constructed, we think, some time in the early to mid-17th century as a dower house and would have been quite grand in its time, not unlike the classical French chateaux.
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Chateaubriand proclaims not the Muslim caliphs nor their architects to be the origin of Islamic architectural grandeur; rather he romanticizes a legacy stretching back four millennia.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
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They came into the courtyard of the Chateau de la Motte, the ancient castle of the Breton dukes, which is now an inn.
Frances Waldeaux
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His version of Château Lafite follows the original French blueprints but adds two extra floors, and has the building's two wings linked by an arc of Romanesque columns.
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And his late, superb "Le Chateau de Chillon" 1874, a Swiss castle famed for its many political prisoners that Courbet may have also studied in photographs, offers a haunting lesson in the formal and evocative beauty entwined in the landscape.
The Rise and Fall of a Master
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“There is something which might be called a chateau; but the wiser plan would be to use the building materials in the construction of a modern residence.”
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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Francois-Rene, vicomte de Chateaubriand, French ambassador in London from 1822, criticised Wellington's choice of setting for the statue.
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During the revolution, when the peasants of all the adjoining estates violently dispossessed their landlords of their property; when every adjoining chateau exhibited a scene of desolation and ruin; the peasants of this estate were remarkable for their moderate and steady conduct; so far from themselves pillaging their seigneur, they formed a league for his defence "-- Ils l'ont soutenùs," as they themselves expressed it -- _and he continued throughout, and is now in the quiet possession of his great estate_.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
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The idea is to change the image of France as a nation of fine wines and elegant chateaux only.
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Mr. Thunevin is the original "garagiste" who literally made his first Château Valandraud, a St. Émilion, in his own garage.
The First Taste of 2009
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The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.
Madame Bovary
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Sanders was accidentally unseated on his way to the winner's circle after losing a stirrup iron after Chateau Istana spooked at a camera car, but remained unscathed and was complimentary of the winning performance.
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Britney Spears debuted a new darker, nappier haircolor on Monday night as she and boyfriend Isaac Cohen left the Chateau Marmont.
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We came home laden with French and other foods including Amora mustard, Petit Suisse fromage frais, Cote d' Or chocolat, Duck Confit, saucissons, Merguez sausages, Gruyere cheese, Puget Olive Oil and a case of Chateau Neuf de Pape.
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‘The innkeeper recommended the chateaubriand very highly,’ he said.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 2010 Château d'Aqueria Tavel 2010 Château d'Aqueria Tavel, $18 Very pretty cerise rosé; spicy nose which carries through on the palate.
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The hotel was built along the lines of a French chateau.
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There is of course more than just a visual resemblance at work here: Chateaubriand has within him an ideological lodestone perpetually inclining him toward the sacred grandeur of the East.
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Next door to the Bowmer, Chateaulin offers a Euro-style menu, including scrumptious marinated goat cheese on toast fingers.
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We ate Chateaubriand on our wedding night in a very posh restaurant.
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He said that he had just read an article about a realtor that specialized in Czech chateaus and that they were going for a good price.
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The triumph of the American chardonnays was even greater, with Grgich's Chateau Montalena well ahead of the pack and other star-spangled whites in third and fourth place.
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Tours of the chateau are normally in French, but English language tours are available some mornings.
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They simply understand that they can sell far more, and reach further into the popular imaginations than as an admittedly fine wine domaine or chateau.
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Their breath encircled the chateau like a wreath, wrapping its way around the substantial estate as if wanting to squeeze out every last drop of life, which existed inside.
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While most Sauvignon Blanc wines from Bordeaux are consumed within a few years of the vintage, the dry and sweet wines from the great chateaux can age for decades.
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For the third time in 150 years, the vineyards of France were witness to war and the French vignerons and chateaux owners once again set about their wartime tasks.
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The wine offered was the 1982 Château Mouton Rothschild, retailing at £1,000 a bottle and generally regarded as one of the great clarets of the 20th century.
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Modeled after the castles and chateaux of Europe, the mansions are one of Newport's top tourist draws, and are open to the public for walking tours, concerts, educational seminars and more.
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She fleshed out this pornotopia as Le Château d’O5.
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Beijing Chateau Laffitte Hotel, a European-style lodging house in the north suburbs of the city, is reported to be hosting the Chinese and American super-rich guests starting at 5 pm.
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But the life style in the château had about it a sort of high-level simplicity.
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A visit of his youth to the Island grave of Chateaubriand; his early memories, as a poetical aspirant, of the magnificent flatteries by which Victor Hugo made himself the god of young romantic Paris; his talks with Montalembert in the days of _L'Avenir_; his memories of Lamennais 'sombre figure, of Maurice de Guérin's feverish ethereal charm; his account of the opposition _salons_ under the Empire -- they had all been elaborated in the course of years, till every word fitted and each point led to the next with the' inevitableness 'of true art.
Robert Elsmere
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The Loire Valley of France is famous for its many romantic chateaux and its wines.
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The people it does not suit are the consumers, and the owners of a group of well-established but unclassified chateaux that produce excellent wines far removed from the bathtub rubbish of the generic AC Bordeaux wine market.
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There were images of châteaux, of vineyards and of what the company calls extremely rare, antique Limousin oak "tiercon" casks, but we tend to call barrels.
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Bunches of fat Cabernet and Merlot grapes hang on the vines, spread over 9.5 hectares around the château.
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Outside the grand clubhouse at the Legends course, at the heart of Château Elan, you almost expect chaps to be wandering around in plus-fours and flat caps.
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Most of them were monuments to Leopold himself: triumphal arches, palaces, seaside resorts, museums, parks, royal châteaux and even golf courses.
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Old and blind, Juliette gave her a lock of Chateaubriand's hair when her eighty-year-old swain died.
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The problem is that, apart from Champagne, the top Bordeaux chateaux and the big names in Burgundy and the Rhone, the rest of the country cannot seem to reach the 21st century wine lover.
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How wonderful to live "dans un appartement niché en haut d'un joli château"!
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What bugs me the most about Chateau Fundie is that it is one small piece of what I'll call the reconfiguration of the old home county.
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If you require an unusual type of property, such as an original chateau or finca in an out of the way location, then what you will find on such a trip is very unlikely to suit.
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They surveyed the small eccentric bungalows with pergolas, the houses of pebbledash and tapestry brick with sleeping-porches above sun-parlors, and one vast incredible château fronting the Lake of the Isles.
Main Street
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One reason is that Jadot makes the Chateau des Jacques wines like they make their red burgundies - in other words, with no or very little carbonic maceration, the traditional Beaujolais vinification.
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Though this hut owed to the neighborhood of the town a few improvements which were wholly absent from such buildings that were five or six miles further off, it showed plainly enough the instability of domestic life and habits to which the wars and customs of feudality had reduced the serf; even to this day many of the peasants of those parts call a seignorial chateau, "The Dwelling.
The Chouans
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They like nice new boxes rather than leaking old barns and rambling châteaux.
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This past decade may have even been the worst of all with the surge of mass produced McMansions along with their ridiculous selection of fake architecture in styles such as Tudorbethan, French Chateau, or some nonsensical variety of Mediterranean Revival.
Will the suburbs go contemporary?
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Isolated on a monticule by the river bank the chateau overlooked its brood of small pavilions, which in a way formed an _entresol_, or foyer, leading to the Pavilion Royal.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
