Word: chateauful
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...Fogg Art Museum will have for one of its ceilings on the main floor a carved oak masterpiece from Dijon, France, dating from the 15th century. This ceiling of massive oak beams is the handwork of French monks of the Renaissance period and was designed for a royal chateau. Agents for the Fogg Museum purchased this art treasure when it was discovered that its size approximated that of one of the ceilings of the new buildings...
...ceiling was removed from the chateau soon after its purchase, and shipped to New York. When the steamship had docked, the problem of transporting the carved sections to Cambridge presented a number of difficulties. Neither the railroads nor steamship lines cared to handle the valuable thirty-six foot sections...
Amid general pomp, masculine gold braid, feminine fine raiment, the new Governor General took the oath of office in the Legislative Council of Quebec. Later he lunched at the Chateau Frontenac, famed hotel. Still later, a special train sped the Governor General and his entourage to Ottawa...
...granite-founded, verdant-wooded Vendee cradled the cub that was to grow into "Tiger" Clemenceau at the Chateau de 1'Aubraie, near Feole. Now on his little four-acre estate, Bels Ebats, in the Vendee, the old "Tiger" waits for Death. The world has been his province, but the Vendee is his home...
...doesn't get a chateau given to one in trust like that and then not go through with the purpose for which the gift was made. I admit my plans are not yet very definite. I have got to talk the matter over with many people at home and see my way clearly first. But I know I can do it. This gift of a French priest to American art is not going to be wasted...