Word: chateauful
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...whose per-capita inflow of 34.3 gallons is the world's highest, who put a foamy head on a disheartening summer. They scheduled a National Beer Festival at the Château de Fraiture in Liège province, but before the guzzling could even get started, the chateau burned down, lock, stock and beer barrels...
...fire of 1661, then appointed him to decorate the great Versailles complex. The artist spent a decade designing the palace interiors, decorating the Hall of Mirrors and the Galleries of War and of Peace, planning the garden statuary and constructing the stairways. Tirelessly, he decorated the famous pavilions and chateau of Louis' Bismarckian minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, at the Parisian suburb of Sceaux, and somehow found time to follow the royal retinue on military campaigns abroad. Dutifully he painted scenes of glory after the battles were won and the surrenders were given...
Prison Bound. It was no surprise therefore that Maine's dwarf-sized duchess believed herself to be a fairy princess. She nearly beggared the Due trying to make the fairyland divertissements at their chateau in Sceaux out rival the splendors of Versailles. As Louis XIV aged, she relentlessly drove her unwilling Due into the struggle over the succession. And under the regency of the Due d'Orleans that followed, she plotted with the court of Spain to put Maine in power and got her helpless husband thrown into prison on charges of treason...
Legendary Beards. As they read the headlines, Parisians began to question the official version that Argoud had been betrayed by the S.A.O. How had he been smuggled from Germany into France? Was the phone call really from an S.A.O. man? Could Pierre Chateau-Jobert, though supposed to be Argoud's rival for leadership of the foundering S.A.O., really have betrayed a comrade in this...
...chateau dwellers in France's Loire River Valley, the vegetable dealers in London's Covent Garden and the truck assembly-line workers in Hagerstown, Md., probably have no idea of how closely their lives are linked to a New York and Chicago firm called the Fantus Co. Fantus is the world's largest and busiest company devoted to an increasingly important specialty: searching out new plant sites for corporations and advising job-starved towns on what sort of new industries they are best suited to attract. Last week it started work on the most far-reaching project...