Word: chateau
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...chateau itself, looming against the skies of Languedoc, looks like the scene of a Gothic melodrama. Turkeys roost on the veranda, and assorted dogs and cats prowl the courtyard where lilacs bloom. In an unburied coffin lies the late Baron Léonce de Portal, whose family title dates back seven centuries. The new baron, Jean-Louis de Portal, has been holding off the police at rifle point for more than six weeks...
...filed charges against the baroness, who was sentenced to four months in jail. Rivière again tried to take over, but the young baron took a pot shot at him and warned him away. In late February Rivière got the police to accompany him to the chateau, but when they tried to enter, Marie-Agnés shouted: "Not another step. My brother is armed. We will fire on you and commit suicide." A few minutes later the baroness returned from an errand in the village, got into a loud argument with the police and was hauled...
...last report the gendarmerie were still circling the chateau, the armed children were standing guard, and the baroness was shouting from the upper windows threats of new lawsuits against all who had wronged the noble house of De Portal...
First night out on a cruise ship? A campus mixer for freshmen? A new crowd gathering for a resort weekend? None of these. It is instead a get-acquainted scene at a new establishment called Chateau D'Vie, which bills itself as the "untraditional year-round country club for singles only...
Overtures. Francis I had reason to be infatuated with Italy. He had conquered some of it in 1515, when he was only 21; and the first Italian artist to come under his barely fledged wing was Leonardo da Vinci, who went to France and died in the royal chateau at Amboise in 1519. But when the King turned to the remodeling of Fontainebleau, his chances of getting another such hero of the High Renaissance were gone. Raphael was dead. Michelangelo rebuffed Francis' overtures. That left younger men, notably Rosso, who had been cut adrift by the sack of Rome...