France has its share of historic chateaus of illustrious heritage.
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Wisteria twists over the walls of stately chateaus and medieval churches.
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It beat chateaus, Monaco, St.-Tropez, Venice by a factor of two.
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The chateaus of the Médoc don't exactly hang out big welcome signs.
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The flooring is 18th-century French oak parquet from two chateaus in France.
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He's spent hundreds of millions on superyachts, private jets, helicopters, French chateaus, and rare paintings.
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The dominant image of Bordeaux is one of imposing chateaus, patrician proprietors and stratospheric prices.
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Collectors shell out for original canvases, which dot the walls of tropical resorts and seaside chateaus.
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Grand-Lucé was one of the rare chateaus to survive the conflict with its collections complete.
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You've been to Versailles and perhaps even made a trip to the chateaus of the Loire Valley.
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Mark Sebastian That summer I was in the Loire with my mom dragging me around to chateaus.
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What's it like to wander through abandoned chateaus, chapels, and cathedrals of Europe and marvel at their dusty opulence?
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Quebec City is one of Canada's oldest municipalities, and it shows in its old European castle walls and chateaus.
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France was where the most expensive home in the world (and one of the most luxurious chateaus) was sold.
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Slowly, though, several top chateaus like Pontet-Canet in Pauillac and Palmer in Margaux have begun to adopt the philosophy.
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"He loves to count the hours he spent driving a tractor more than he loves to count the chateaus he owns."
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There is no shortage of landmarks and charming chateaus in two of France's greatest wine regions, the Loire Valley and Champagne.
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Aside from its prehistoric residents, the region — dotted with castles, chateaus and fortifications — has been a center of conflict for centuries.
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The London native finds beauty in the less obvious, the least glossy and the most idiosyncratic of rooms, chateaus and even potting sheds.
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Gascony — unlike Paris or the Loire Valley, say — is not a popular destination for bucket-listers seeking grand chateaus, opulent palaces and soaring basilicas.
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And Mr. Bolger organizes tastings and private meals at neighboring chateaus, including even Chateau Petrus, which for ordinary tourists is harder to visit than Norad.
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The mansion is crafted with exposed timber beams, brick and stonework, five fireplaces, and 18th-century French oak parquet flooring from two chateaus in France.
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The result is rows of Disney-style chateaus, with gray-roofed turrets, circular balconies and balustrades, stretching over a million square meters, or 20193 acres.
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I was fascinated by the idea of a race for nonracers, the gorgeous French countryside, sleek historic cars and chateaus all with your best girlfriend.
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"The Chinese are on a buying splurge of wine estates in Bordeaux, because they love the local wine, and French chateaus are popular, too," Brand tells CNN.
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This offering will include some of the most spectacular homes in the world, from 16th Century Tuscan mansions to French Chateaus to beachside villas in Costa Rica.
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Emilio Terry, the mid-20th-century architect, designer and artist, applied obelisks, interlocked spirals, scallop forms and gnarled coral textures to jewelry, furniture, garden ornaments and chateaus.
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But prices for chateaus in the Loire Valley and neighboring department of Mayenne, which have dropped considerably since their peak, have hit bottom and stabilized, agents said.
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A killer frost in 1956 devastated many properties, including Bonnet, and, when a series of mostly miserable vintages followed, many chateaus were on the brink of ruin.
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The Pour POMEROL, France — The word Bordeaux connotes magnificent chateaus, aristocratic (or at least wealthy or corporate) landowners and wines that occasionally live up to their pretensions.
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As a young man Mr. DeCarlo recorded doo-wop songs with Mr. Frashuer and Mr. Leka, first as the Glenwoods, then as the Citations and the Chateaus.
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The wealthiest among them still own French chateaus, stash money in Swiss bank accounts, wear couture dresses under their abayas and frolic on some of the world's biggest yachts.
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Margaux was one of four chateaus named in the top level, or first growth, along with Lafite, Latour and Haut-Brion, later to be joined by Mouton Rothschild in 1997.
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Turkey: A suburb made up of Disney-style chateaus is no magic kingdom — it is unfinished, in bankruptcy and much criticized for its architecture — but the minicastles are still for sale.
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Château Paveil de Luze, in Margaux, is one of the oldest and, for my money, most outrageously beautiful of Bordeaux's chateaus, covered in flowering vines and backed by an edenic lagoon.
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He recalled that he would walk the city walls, his imagination marinating in the atmosphere of the Middle Ages, and that his mother would take him to see chateaus in the region.
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Though many of the Louvre's great paintings had been hidden in chateaus in the countryside, Jaujard and Wolff-Metternich collaborated to keep the museum open during the occupation and to protect its collection.
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François-Xavier Le Nail, the director of Cabinet Le Nail, an agency based in Mayenne that focuses on chateaus and historic properties in northwestern France, said prices have stabilized in the last year.
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For five years, a renegade group known as We Are the Oracle has been hosting such semi-secret parties in elusive sites throughout Paris, including the catacombs, empty railway tracks and abandoned chateaus.
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Established as a theater festival in 1953 at the town chateaus, the Festival de Wiltz in the Ardennes region of northern Luxembourg has expanded to include dance, opera and musical performances each July.
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That has not stopped the new Chinese owner in one of France's most fabled wine regions from naming his newly acquired chateaus after them — to more than a little consternation among tradition-bound French.
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Then there's the wine list, as elaborate as one might expect from Mr. Magrez, with more than 160 chateaus and every cru classé (a term denoting recognized, high-quality vineyards) from the Bordeaux region.
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Because most French chateaus are privately owned (including this one, currently inhabited by the Sarlat native Angélique de Saint-Exupéry, whose husband is a relative of "The Little Prince" author), most are limited in access.
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PARIS — The French president's fondness for the gilt-edged aspects of his job — the fancy backdrops in chateaus, his big makeup bills, the proximity to the wealthy — is no longer a secret to his countrymen.
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At the same time, we need to tell M.B.S.: You can be an effective king, with real legitimacy, or you can buy yachts, chateaus and Leonardo da Vincis like your cousins — but you can't do both.
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Along with a cluster of century-old palazzos and chateaus, the area features a growing array of contemporary tasting rooms, hotels, spas and food establishments, many of them opened or refurbished within the last two years.
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Recently, the celebrated writer Philippe Sollers wrote a reproachful open letter to the mayor of Bordeaux, reflecting the anxiety coursing through the region and protesting what some saw as audacity in changing the names of historic chateaus.
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But what is known, suggests an envious lifestyle filled with big spending, private jets, luxury yachts, top of the line helicopters, sprawling chateaus and a palatial estate decked out with gold furniture — including a gold-plated Kleenex dispenser.
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Some of the wineries are grandiose chateaus built in a French style at a cost of millions of euros, others are prefabricated metal cubes or basic houses opened by aficionados with limited means but a serious passion for wine.
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It is not possible to see the finish line from chateaus or stables, but standing along the hedges outside of the Grandes Écuries is thrilling as the horses run by and viewers are surrounded by the sound of jockeys and hooves.
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That realm belongs to the Franco-Chinese food writer Mimi Thorisson, whose blog and cookbooks — lavishly photographed by her Icelandic husband, Oddur — have transformed the image of Médoc from the stodgy preserve of pretentious chateaus into something like a peasant paradise.
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Though Lafite passed through several hands before 1868, it was still ranked at the top of the top in the 1855 classification, a five-class ranking of 823 Médoc chateaus (and one from Graves, the famous Haut-Brion) that is still influential today.
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While France often conjures the image of well-to-do winemakers in regal chateaus, many are small struggling vignerons, especially in this region, otherwise known as the Pays d'Oc, which built its industry for over a century on low-cost table wines.
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Chateaus are valued comparatively, not by the price per square meter, said François-Xavier Le Nail, the director of Cabinet Le Nail, an agency specializing in high-end historic properties in the northwest of France, which has the listing for this home.
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The Land Rover made things a lot easier, but chasing the houbara, whose stringy flesh is said to be an aphrodisiac, remains one of the hallowed pursuits — along with thoroughbred stallions, huge yachts and French chateaus — that occupy the minds of Persian Gulf royalty.
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The Burj al Babas project, set among hills about 200 km (120 miles) east of Istanbul, was conceived as a luxury housing development with row upon row of identical cream-coloured homes, shaped like chateaus with grey turrets and all built around a shopping mall and hotel.
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Between Mr. Lurton, his younger siblings — Lucien, Dominique and Simone — and assorted members of the next generation, the family owned more than 21992 chateaus and more than 3,000 acres of vineyards, as well as properties in the south of France, Portugal, Spain, South America and Australia.
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Advertising CANNES, France — A who's who of marketing and media convened on yachts and in the gardens of luxurious chateaus here last week as musicians like Jon Bon Jovi and the Killers performed at hotels and sandy beaches temporarily renamed after companies like Google and Spotify.
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Mr. Puech and other activists smashed thousands of bottles at retailers like Carrefour, which carried cheap Spanish wines made to look French, with pictures of chateaus and lavender fields, and selling them at the same price as the competing Languedoc fare, creating sizable margins for the retailers.
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On the Runway When it comes to shows, fashion loves a venue metaphor: museums, art galleries, palatial chateaus — buildings and exotic destinations of historic and cultural value to which only it has entree, the better to suggest the extraordinary values brands hope will be associated with their collections.
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The sale of oil provides billions of dollars in annual allowances, public-sector sinecures and perks for royals, the wealthiest of whom own French chateaus and Saudi palaces, stash money in Swiss bank accounts, wear couture dresses under their abayas and frolic on some of the world's biggest yachts out of sight of commoners.
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The sale of oil provides billions of dollars in annual allowances, public sector sinecures and perks for royals, the wealthiest of whom own French chateaus and Saudi palaces, stash money in Swiss bank accounts, wear couture dresses under their abayas and frolic on some of the world's biggest yachts out of sight of commoners.
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Ms. Waight Keller, for one, took the latter approach, imagining a winged creature trailing shreds of feathers and fringe, straps hanging off parachute puffs of pink taffeta and iridescent green jacquard, as she smashed her way through a host of classic chateaus (in reality it was the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, part of the Louvre complex, one of the most elaborate palaces in France).
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Bratislava : Orbis Pictus Istropolitana, 2018. There are also many castles, chateaus, churches, manor houses and other cultural monuments in Slovakia. According to some sources, Slovakia has the highest concentration of castles per capita. A more durable stone was used in their construction.
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Another collection of hunting arms is in exhibit at the Peles Castle but valuable pieces are to be encountered throughout the country in regional or natural history museums. Former chateaus and hunting lodges are still preserved and some are open to public, but most have lost their initial purpose.
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Leka grew up in Connecticut and played piano as a child and later became a multi-instrumentalist. He played with a group called the Chateaus, who recorded some singles for Coral Records in the 1960s. Leka soon gave up performing for production and arranging work. He principally wrote songs for and had hits with the Lemon Pipers (for whom, with Shelley Pinz, he wrote "Green Tambourine"), the Peppermint Rainbow in which he produced, arranged, and orchestrated for their song "Will You Be Staying After Sunday", and Steam, which featured two of his bandmates from the Chateaus, and who scored a multiplatinum hit with the Leka co-written "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye".
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Family of Zedwitz fall apart, and individual stems moving to new chateaus in Aš, Kopaniny, Doubrava, Smrčina and two chateas in Podhradí. From this moment, castle left uninhabited. In these days there exists only a castle tower, high. Local council make efforts to save it, but, because of bad financial situation is a big problem.
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The Founder's Building is the original building of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHUL), in Egham, Surrey, England. It is an example of French-Renaissance-style architecture in the United Kingdom, having been modelled on French chateaus such as Château de Chambord.Royal Holloway, University of London J. Banjeree, The Victorian Web Today it is the dominant building on the campus.
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Furnishings inside the châteaux also witnessed changes to suit the living styles of its occupants.Williams & Boone, pp. 22–26 Gardens, both ornamental fountains, footpaths flower beds and tended grass) and kitchen type (to grow vegetables), also accentuated the opulence of the châteaux. The French Revolution (1789) brought a radical change for the worse in the scenarios for chateaus, as monarchy ended in France.
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De Jangle, who was involved in the horse-raising enterprise with de Roffignac and Farquet, had settled in Whitewood probably in 1888. He opened a general store, and remained in the town until around 1913. The last of the big chateaus to be closed was 'la Rolanderie'. De Roffignac probably shut the doors in 1893 or 1894, and left for parts unknown.
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Expansions is still underway with multiple new luxury properties such as the vales of humber estates, along with existing luxury communities such as the Vales Of Castlemore. A portion of the luxury homes are around Alloa. A small industrial building is at Cadetta and in the 2000s added Sears east of Castlemore. In 2004, the Chateaus began between Mayfield and Countryside and Goreway.
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The construction of the Loreto Church was carried out according to plans by Giovanni Giacomo Tencalla, the Italian architect who constructed the chateaus in Lednice and Valtice for the Liechtensteins. The stucco decoration in the former presbytery and in Náchod chapel is the work of his brother Giovanni Tencalla. The stone facade dates from 1700. The original single-tower facade was reconstructed by Leopold Dietrichstein.
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Plazac is in the Périgord Noir, a region severely affected by the Hundred Years' War. As a result, the hills are studded with castles and chateaus. The nearby Dordogne River formed the border between the English and the French, who were north of the river. Along the river there are many castles in pairs, one on the north, the other on the south bank.
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During World War II, La Grange-Aux-Moines, a dependency of Pimelles, served as one of the headquarters of an element of the Yonne Resistance Movement. Its members were betrayed, and shot by German occupation forces. Modern-day Pimelles maintains its traditional agricultural character, producing wheat and rapeseed. Nearby sites include the Renaissance chateaus of Tanlay and Ancy-le-Franc and the unique pentagon-shaped château de Maulnes.
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Consequently, most of Rouffignac dates from the late 1940s. In addition to castles and chateaus, the area is honeycombed with caves. The most famous is Lascaux near Montignac (15 minutes from Plazac) where the famous cave paintings were discovered. Another famous cave is Les Grottes de Rouffignac, where a battery-powered railway takes visitors over a mile underground to see cave paintings including pictures of mammoths which were drawn from life.
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Cheval Blanc is a luxury colonial-style hotel in Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean, situated on Flamands Beach on the northwestern coast. It was awarded AAA/CAA Four Diamond Lodgings status for 2015. Established in 1991, the hotel contains 40 rooms, suites and villas, which start in size at . CNN notes that the interior white-washed furnishings are inspired by those of French chateaus, and that salmon pink is a common rendering.
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After acquiring the property, the hotelier division of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway announced its plans to develop a hotel on the property. The building was designed by a Canadian architectural firm, Ross and MacFarlane, the same architectural firm that designed many of Canada's landmark hotels, designed the hotel in the Canada's railway hotels. Construction of the building took place from 1911 to 1915. The design of the building was inspired by designs found on French Renaissance architectural-era chateaus.
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Designed in a Châteauesque style, the building features steep pitched roofs, circular and polygonal towers, and ornate gables and dormers. The Château Frontenac is one of Canada's grand railway hotels built by the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Châteauesque architectural style used throughout the hotel would later serve as a template for other Canadian grand railway hotels erected in the late-19th to early-20th century. The central fortress-like tower design is derived from medieval chateaus found throughout France's Loire Valley.
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Rundāle Municipality () is a municipality in Zemgale, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Rundāle Parish, Svitene Parish and Viesturi Parish, the administrative centre being Pilsrundāle. It is located in the south-east of Latvia and is only 15 km (9.3 mi) from the town Bauska and 80 km (49.7 mi) from Latvian capital Riga. The center of the municipality, Pilsrundāle, is the location of the Rundāle Palace, a famous tourist destination and one of the most notable Latvian chateaus.
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Remnants of the second chateau remain on the grounds. The second chateau was reportedly larger than the current chateau. Reportedly, both of the earlier chateau's were largely constructed of wooden timbers, as was common for many chateaus constructed during the 17th and 18th century.Conversation with Baron Potet, circa May, 27 2002 After the second chateau was destroyed by fire, the baron was looking for a new architect who could design and build a structure that was more resistant to fire.
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The completion of the hotel required a joint investment into the property from Canadian Pacific Hotels, a division of Canadian Pacific Railway. The hotel was a part of series of Chateauesque grand railway hotels built throughout Canada in the late-19th and early 20th centuries. Like the other grand railway hotels, Hotel Vancouver incorporates elements from chateaus found in France's Loire Valley. Chateauesque features found on Hotel Vancouver includes its prominent copper pitched roof with dormers, and carved stonework encompassing a steel frame.
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It was sold again in 1988 to an attorney, François Michaud, who owned it until 1991 when it was acquired by its current owners, the Princes of Broglie who undertook significant improvements and modernization. In 2003, Château de la Bourdaisière gained considerable attention in North America, as the primary site for the television show Joe Millionaire. In 2011, the chateaus gardens were finalist for the European Garden Award bestowed by the European Garden Heritage Network The château was listed as a monument historique in 1947.
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Success slowly started to come. After the advice of director József Benke she translated her last name to Széppataki, and began to took role as actress, figurant and sang also in choirs. As a remain of the Middle Ages, at the time in Pest theater and drama was looked down upon, and was usually pursued by Germans, in German; the Hungarian troupé had a hard time fighting traditions. Aided by the social shift of the Reform period of the early 19th century, opening the doors of city mansions and country chateaus was a slow process.
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During his studies there he was mentored by grape geneticist Professor Harold Olmo. After graduation, Baron was employed as a vineyard manager and assistant winemaker at Navarro Vineyards in the Anderson Valley. Baron with Jean-Claude Berrouet Passionate about the art of winemaking, in 1981 Baron moved to the Bordeaux region of France to gain experience in one of the world's finest wine producing regions. He was involved in the production of two vintages in various chateaus, gaining a valuable insight into its history and in cultivating top-notch wines, changing his perception of winemaking.
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In the late 18th century, before it was officially Sarthe, the nobility built their Mansions and Chateaus there, as an escape from Paris. The department was created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790, pursuant to the law of 22 December 1789, starting from a part of the province of Maine. The latter was divided into two departments, Sarthe to the east and Mayenne to the west.The Sarthe region In Roman times, this province contained the city of Mans, and many of its ruins are still standing.
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The replacement building, or the main block, consisted of the north, and south wing. As with the tower added in 1911, the replacement structure is made up of a steel frame, clad in Rundle limestone. Orrock based elements of the new building with the general styles of the original wooden building designed by Price, meaning that the main block also featured elements found on the chateaus of the Loire Valley in France. As a result, the main block features massive wall surfaces, and steep copper roofs, dormers, and gables.
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The original wooden structure, on which the present north and south wing designs are based, featured architectural elements drawn from Scottish baronial architecture, as well as the chateaus of the Loire Valley. This blend of architectural styles would eventually lead to the Châteauesque style used for most of the grand railway hotels in Canada. Châteauesque features found on the building include its steep pitched roofs, pointed dormers, and corner turrets. However, contrasting later Châteauesque hotels built in Canada, Banff Springs Hotel's also draws elements from the Arts and Crafts movement.
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Belin was the pupil of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, whose daughter he married, and whom he succeeded as a flower painter at the Gobelins manufactory. Belin painted floral murals in several of the royal chateaus, including Fontainebleau and Versailles, where he worked on the Escalier de la Reine (Queen's Staircase), since destroyed. He also collaborated with other painters, providing the floral borders in portrait paintings and tapestry cartoons for Gobelins manufactory from 1687. Towards the end of his life, the king honored him by providing him with a pension and lodgings in the Palais du Louvre.
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Her successful relief of the siege of Orléans, on the Loire, was the turning point of the war. Orléans In 1477, the first printing press in France was established in Angers, and around this time the Chateau de Langeais and Chateau de Montsoreau were built.Williams & Boone, p.16 During the reign of François I from 1515 to 1547, the Italian Renaissance had a profound influence upon the region, as people adopted its elements in the architecture and culture, particularly among the elite who expressed its principles in their chateaus.
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Aid stations are the smallest units, passing cases on to Field Ambulances and thence to Casualty clearing stations. During the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), the French established a tiered system of medical support services. Basic aid stations operated by one field medic were established as close to front lines as possible, sometimes within a few hundred meters to allow for the treatment of wounded troops as soon as possible. The more seriously injured were transported further back behind front lines to field hospitals in churches or nearby chateaus.
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The twenty artillery pieces were in park along the road facing north, baggage wagons and pontoon wagons in rows behind them. A stone bridge on the road crossing the Gontrode Brook, a stream that flowed into the Scheldt, was unguarded and a walled priory flanking the road only lightly occupied. One battalion of the Normandie brigade was posted in the town of Melle another well to the west of Melle. The battalions of Crillon brigade were also dispersed around the area, some taking post or billeting in the various chateaus and farm houses with one battalion astride the road west of the bridge.
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Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer wrote a blues shuffle version of the song in the early 1960s when they were members of a doo-wop group from Bridgeport, Connecticut, called the Glenwoods, the Citations, and the Chateaus, of which Leka was the piano player. The group disbanded when Leka talked Frashuer into going into New York City with him to write and possibly produce. In 1968, DeCarlo recorded four songs at Mercury Records in New York with Leka as producer. The singles impressed the company's executives, who wanted to issue all of them as A-side singles.
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Avenues lined the access roads to chateaus and manors, as well as pilgrimage routes and Stations of the Cross. The manorial landscape architecture was followed by "folk landscaping" with wayside chapels, crosses and shrines accompanied by trees. Later, Maria Theresa decreed in 1752 to plant trees along the new imperial roads for economic, aesthetic, orientation and safety reasons. Most avenues were created during the reigns of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, new landscaping came from England, and formal aesthetics were replaced by the aesthetics of the natural landscape.
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Through Dunham's legendary business acumen the size of the farm eventually expanded to 2,000 acres and the breeding business flourished until the early decades of the 20th century, earning Dunham vast sums of money and the gratitude of both the French and American people. By 1888 an estimated one-fifth of all imported French horses lived at Oaklawn. By 1883, the Dunham Castle, which was patterned after the Normandy chateaus he had seen while on stock buying trips in France, was completed and served as the family residence. During the 1893 Chicago World's Fair a train from Chicago to Wayne brought guests to see the Percheron horses.
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The castle was built in 1899–1902 by order of King Carol I, as the residence for his nephew and heir, the future King Ferdinand (son of Carol's brother Leopold von Hohenzollern) and Ferdinand's consort Queen Marie. In 2006, it was decided that the entire complex, including Pelișor, long a museum and tourist site, is the legal property of the King Michael I of Romania. The royal family was to assume legal possession of it and lease it to the Romanian state, so that it will remain in its current status.nettyroyal.nl, Royal News: January 24th The main castle of Peleș is already under lease, but negotiations for other villas and chateaus are on going.
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