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Every New Year's Day, the men of the Du Pont family gather in the mansions on the old home grounds hard by Brandywine Creek in northern Delaware. Once assembled, they band themselves into little troops and march off to the several family villas and châteaux in the area to pay their respects to the waiting Du Pont womenfolk. This is an admirable rite, steeped as it is in tradition, but it has its practical side as well: there are roughly 1,600 Du Ponts in the U.S. today, and some of them might never otherwise...
...path to Damascus, camped out for a month in imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux, and a few thousand choice acres of European soil...
...embellished buildings, his shadowy ruins and his ornate details introduced a style of lavish grandeur that found its way to the noble homes of England and to the chãteaux of imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are akin to cubist abstraction, but this seems a cold sort of evaluation for a man like Piranesi. He conceived visions of Rome, Horace Walpole said, "beyond what Rome boasted even in the meridian of its splendor. Savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michelangelo and exuberant as Rubens, he has imagined scenes...
...ancestor hunters, the British Travel and Holidays Association will recommend professional genealogists or will complete the title search in advance and arrange a visit to ancestral homes. More than 60 French châteaux have been converted to accommodate tourists in the formidable ducal splendor of the 1 3th and 15th centuries at prices ranging from $16-$40 per day for a double, including meals. For the ultimate in converted castles: the Sportsman's Club at Mittersill, Austria. Once-only guests are accepted at $40 to $50 per night for the privilege of trout fishing and hunting...
...when two sporting gentlemen on his board of trustees fell to talking about their favorite subject. Trustee Paul Mellon agreed to help raise the money, and both President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth were signed on as honorary patrons. Gradually-from the stately homes of England, the châteaux and museums of France, the great art collections of the U.S.-the noble steeds were assembled. The result: as rich a display of paintings as any lover of horses-or of good portraiture-could want...