chateau
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A helicopter then carried the couple to a rented chateau.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Between 1774 and 1785, Marie Antoinette redesigned the house and gardens of Le Petit Trianon, a satellite chateau of Versailles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
They continue to jointly own the chateau and vineyard, which produces 2 million bottles of rosé a year, and it's anything but plonk.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
And Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung won best director for Pot-au-Feu, a love story starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel set in a 19th century French chateau.
From BBC ● May 27, 2023
That night I dreamt that I was at a costume ball in an eighteenth-century French chateau, with huge crystal chandeliers above my head.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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After making Venice her primary residence, Caland collaborated with architect Neil Kaufman on the design for her enclosed château.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Perched in his art-filled château in the south of France, the British expatriate spent years hurling invectives at, falling out with or blatantly undermining an astonishing number of people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Even at the turn of the century, schools typically were not erected on such prime real estate, but the building originally was intended to be a luxury hotel designed to invoke a French château.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Established as an inn that served the lords of King Henry III, it became known as the Hostellerie de la Tour d’Argent, or silver tower, after an adjacent château that was built of silvery stone.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
They've reserved two rooms for the week at the Saint James Paris, an exclusive château hotel.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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When Lee started to feel sick at Medoc, she skipped a few of the châteaus and drank water instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
It reached its zenith during the Rococo and Neoclassical periods, gracing the interiors of palaces, châteaus and grand estates.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
“If the châteaus are offering wine that I don’t have, I’ll pay a little more to know that it’s sat in their cellar all these years,” Devine said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
Cove wants to see how these faux châteaus affect woodrats’ chances of becoming a cat’s dinner.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2020
Meanwhile, seventy-two châteaus have flamed aloft in the Maçonnais and Beaujolais alone.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Peasants burned châteaux and records of the dues they owed local nobles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Today, Walla Walla is a much different scene, with more than 100 tasting rooms, from grand châteaux to humble “shack”-teaux dotting the landscape.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
Based on these discoveries, investigators determined that scores of bottles from Kurniawan’s cellar had been produced not by the acclaimed châteaux on their labels but by Kurniawan himself.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2016
Huge profits in store for firm that can make a great leap in battery technology Chargers, châteaux and the Channel Tunnel: can you really do a driving holiday in a Tesla?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2016
There were some fine photographs of the châteaux of the Loire, and an article as well.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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