Word: chateauful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marquise de Bausset-Roquefort, a descendant of Sully who inherited the chateau in 1902, the greatest charm of Sully-sur-Loire lay in an ancient rumor that a fortune of francs in jewels and gold lay buried somewhere in its walls. In 1951 the marquise began looking for the treasure in earnest. She hired work men in droves to dig up the ancient foundations. When water from the castle moat seeped into the cellars, she brought in helmeted divers to continue the hunt. Girders gave way, walls collapsed, suction pumps worked overtime, but still the marquise searched...
Another World. Outside her office Publisher Patterson shifts effortlessly to another world. In fashionable Sands Point she is Mrs. Guggenheim to the six servants who staff the 30-room Norman chateau, Falaise, overlooking Long Island Sound. Her husband built it as a showplace in 1923, imported bricks from Belgium, hand-carved doors from Italy and Spain, and filled it with, a museum-like array of fine statues, paintings, tapestries, chandeliers and silver. Publisher Patterson is too busy for household affairs, lets her secretary and servants manage Falaise. Evenings, she and her husband often entertain such close friends as Broadway Producer...
...Geneva by the French. Despite last week's agreement in principle, both Frenchmen and Vietnamese are still haggling over the legal and financial specifics of independence, and might not sign the treaties for several weeks (underlings were left to work out the details; Bao Dai relaxed in his chateau at Cannes). "Independence has come in such a way," grumbled one Vietnamese official back home, "that we cannot even have an Independence Day that anyone can take seriously...
...door to his court remained wide open. Since Louis insisted that his noblemen live there, housing was a nightmare. With 10.000 people living in the chateau at Versailles, it was as crowded as a slum. The bearer of many a celebrated name had to be content with a dismal attic room, though it seemed to be worth it to bask in the rays of the Sun King: the nobleman of the day counted himself lucky if he could become the official custodian of the royal chamber...
Paris, Beautiful Paris. For all its sumptuousness and its galaxy of the first names of France, the chateau was a bore with bowing courtiers incapable of scraping up an amusing conversation. As everyone knew, life in the provinces was dreary too, and anyone who lived there was considered a mere "vegetable with powers of locomotion." Some noblemen of wit and wealth defied the King's pique and choseParis. It was a dirty city. The streets were choked with mud and refuse, and the stench could be smelled two miles outside the city gates. Here, a nobleman lived...