Word: chateauful
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...Vichy has seen the most flamboyant of them. But Count Foucou was something special. He arrived in his bright new British Aston-Martin sports car with a squeal of tires and a flourish of gravel, flanked by a pretty blonde wife and a secretary. He wanted to buy a chateau, he said, and the dazzled real-estate agent showed him the historic Chateau de Theillat. The count took one look, declared he would take it, and with an aristocratic flourish wrote out two checks on the spot, one for 35 million francs ($100,000) and another for 25 million...
...stunned agent hastily called up the chateau's owner in Lyons, who accepted the count's offer instantly, and the count moved in. Nobody noticed that the count had picked Assumption day, when all the banks in France were closed...
...Grand Seigneur. The count did not have much time, but he moved fast. Within hours his car rolled out of the chateau's gates under the admiring eyes of the neighboring peasants, who had heard of the arrival of a real "grand seigneur." In the next two days the count bought a nearby model farm for 10 million francs ($28,500), ten paintings (including a Corot valued at $18,500), $2,800 worth of lingerie for his wife, $25,700 worth of jewelry, $1,100 worth of Havana cigars, ten typewriters, assorted washing machines, television sets and kitchen stoves...
...week in London or Paris. Largely to accommodate his friends, Niarchos maintains a Long Island estate, a duplex apartment in Manhattan, town houses in Paris and Athens, a London penthouse at Claridge's once occupied by Sir Winston Churchill, a four-story, $575,000 Cap d'Antibes chateau that has sheltered such royal refugees as the Duke of Windsor and Belgium's ex-King Leopold. Recently, he bought "Blue Horizons," one of Bermuda's most elegant abodes...
...lawn afterwards, the groups lined up in traditional V-formations, took turns tooting their bulge-cheeked way through an intricate variety of fanfares. It was a glorious afternoon for the horn players but a somewhat puzzling one for the modern audience. When they began wandering aimlessly across the chateau grounds as the concert went on, nobody could think of a fanfare to recall them to their seats...