Show tJ Castles for Sale tJ1 Former Homes of the Aristocracy I of France Offered in Open Market Special Correspondence Castles In Spain are probably tho ihoapcst In tho world for a person with a sanguine temperament and a Ittlo Imagination may build them at my time In this respect they have in advantage over the chateaux of franco shown In the Illustration But seine of these French chateaux wo wonderfully cheap are Indeed almost In tho class of abandoned arms Castles on the Rhino used to 5o within the reach of moderate for tines but they havo greatly Increased n price lately In tho same way thoro mis been an Increase In tho prlco of Italian palaces Neither tho Hlilno castles nor the Italian palaces are so numerous as the bateaux of France There were many of them built many years ago some of them dating from the days of Louis XIII XIIIThat That these places should bo purchased pur-chased at small prices Is duo to tho centralization In the lIfo of Franco wllch has taken so many of tho population popu-lation to the cities Young men In the families that owned these houses In the past had usually enough to limo on and possibly maintain tho chateau In a meager fashion that was a strango contrast to Its early grandeur Sometimes a wealthy marriage helped the owner to hold on to the chateau These conditions all existed until the time cane when those places wero offered for sale This was the result of tho feeling among young Frenchmen that It was not beneath their dignity to work Nowadays men of tho oldest families aro anxious to make a name and a fortune just as If they had not n long line of titled ancestors behind them Heirs Are at Work They enter all professions They are lawyers engineers architects and scientists These professions take them to Paris If they do not lead them far beyond the borders of their own country Such houses as those shown In the pictures aro little moro expensive than the best of tho own your own homo MM Chateau De Vlllandry houses offered for sale near N < rw York Time noble pile with the pin roar known as tho Chateau do Vlllimdry can ho bought for 28000 It was built toward tho close of tho sixteenth century and Is regarded as a very pure specimen of that period The wings of tho house enclose a beautiful court of honor There are ornamental gardens In the French and English style done by experienced landscape gardeners toward tho close of tho last century A lake lies In tho woods of tho largo I park surrounding the house and there aro conservatories terraces In tho front of tho chateau and several Islands In tho River Cher that belong to the property Older still Is the chateau near Druex which was put up In the days of Louis XIII and Is called a perfect specimen of the architecture of that period having undergone no alterations alter-ations or changes In any other style slnco it was first built Thoro Is a court of honor and tho lake as the picture shows stretches almost to the windows in one wing of tho house Just as It Was Built Time principal building Is two and a half stories high and Is accounted remarkable re-markable both In original beauty and In Its present state of preservation There are kitchen and fruit gardens conservatories and a very old chapel n 1 r j Louis XIII Castle antedating even tho building of tho main house Tho park was laid out by the famous Lo Notro Built In Sixteenth Century Tho Chateau do Farguctto stands near a palace famous In medieval days Tho castle Is medieval in architecture having been built In the sixteenth century cen-tury It is in good preservation however how-ever and has been occupied until recently re-cently when It was put on tho market The cost of this house and Its twenty acres Is but 18000 The severe and forbidding architecture architec-ture of the house Is proof of its an tiquity although that would not endear en-dear It to many persons who seek for < moro beauty In a home To thuso who want a castlo that not only Is really old but also looks old the unadorned un-adorned exterior would not be repellent repel-lent lentFor For 30000 there Is n beautiful chateau cha-teau In tho stylo of Louis XIV that possesses a park of twenty acres and a facade of stone columns from one end of the house to tho other There aro also beautiful woods nnd architectural architec-tural gardens attached l to it Another chateau that looks as big as u railroad station can bo bought I fahJ 4 to I x r G Chateau De Farguette for 32000 although it was put up in 1760 by ono of tho most noted architects archi-tects of his day Then thoro aro sixty two acres of wild and ornamented ground about tho house Another chateau moro modern but beautiful can bo had for 22000 along with Its twelve acres It has existed for about a century and years ago received re-ceived tho namo of Lo Chateau des Penitents because of its rather ecclesiastical ecclesi-astical aspect Tho Seine runs at tho foot of tho lawn and tho views from the windows stretch through tho valley to Paris There aro many other chateaux of tho samo kind offered for sale but these aro typical and show that next to Spain France Is an easy country to acquire a homo In |