Chateau

High up, crowning the grassy summit of a swelling mound whose sides are wooded near the base with the gnarled trees of the primeval forest, stands the old chateau of my ancestors.

Chenonceau is one of France's most famous chateau.

The king gave his fiancée a chateau as a statement of his love.

The chateau was requisitioned by the Germans.

The chateau was requisitioned by the Allies.

After several hospitalizations over the last few months, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing died on Wednesday at the age of 94 in his chateau.

Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at the chateau, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in.

What he had formerly been in France I had not a notion. All I knew was that he was said to possess a chateau.