Cat taking water in French country house

Usage examples of chateau.

Now she was gone, and the two air service boys, left by themselves in that room of the old Lorraine chateau, counted the seconds and the minutes until they should hear a gentle signal at the door, to signify that Bessie and her mother were there, about to enter.

The air service boys could hear voices from where the chateau was located.

Sir Robert Appleton came by way of Saint-Die and approached from a direction that gave him a spectacular view of the royal chateau where it perched on the cliff.

Eustache, Cartier, a young man of nineteen, was lowered from a window at night, crawled along to the Cache, then under range of fire, and brought back a bag of cartridges strapped round his waist, to replenish the exhausted ammunition of the defenders of the Chateau.

Tour du Major, followed by the Tour des Casernes, then the double towers of the Eastern Gate as the Chateau Comtal came into full view.

All that is in this grotto, my friend, my house in the Champs Elysees, and my chateau at Treport, are the marriage gifts bestowed by Edmond Dantes upon the son of his old master, Morrel.

Chateau de Chantilly, once the seat of the grand Conde, head of the Bourbon-Conde dynasty, looted and brought to ruin by the mob in the first violent rush of the Revolution.

Chateau Montelena chardonnay bested the top French white burgundies at the famous 1976 Paris tasting.

From this culminating point they beheld the chateau transformed into a factory, the park cut up into countryseats, the fields turned into market-gardens!

Heritier de son frere, Barincq conserverait sans aucun doute le chateau et ses terres pour les transmettre plus tard a sa fille comme bien de famille.

He knew quite well what bent his inclination toward visiting the Chateau de Montalais just once before effecting, what he was resolved upon, a complete evanishment from the ken of its people.

Foix was just arrived to attend his son to his chateau, where he would remain till the perfect recovery of his wounds, and then return to Languedoc, but that her father and herself purposed to be at La Vallee, on the following day.

After the execution of the King, he had returned to the chateau at Malesherbes, near Pithiviers in the Department of the Loiret, and gathered his family around him as if they might draw strength and reassurance from their union.

But this metier of public speaker is by no means lucrative, so the surprise throughout the district was immense, when it was ascertained that the former ploughboy had purchased the chateau, and almost all the land belonging to his old master.

Chateau Ste Roseline, delicately fruity, and an uncommon find in England, where the warm weather which fosters the appreciation of such summery wines is normally rarer yet.