| Show castles for sale 1 w former home of the aristocracy of france offered in open market special correspondence castles in spa n are probably the cheapest in the world for a person ath a sanguine temperament and a littfe imagination bul d them at any time in this jegi act they have an advantage oyei the chateaux of fc ranee shown in the illustration but some french chateaux are won d cheap are indeed almost in the class of abandoned arms on the HI ie used to ie nathin the reach of moderate tor tunes but they have greatly increased n price latel tn the same w ay there I 1 as been an increase in the price of italian palaces neither the phine castles nor the italian palaces are so numerous as the chateau de V alandry chateaux of france there were many of them built many ears ago some of them dating from the days of louis XIII that these places should be pur chased at small prices is due to the centralization in the life of france which has taken so many ot the lation to the cities young men in the aarni ies that owned these houses in the past had usually enough to alivs on and possibly bos sibly maintain the chateau in a meager fashion that was a 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 came when chesi places vi ere offered for sale this was the result of the feeling among young frenchmen that fit was not beneath their dignity to work nowadays men of the oldest families are anxious tomake to make a name and a fortune just as if the had not a long line of titled ancestors behind them he rs are t wark they enter all professions they are lawyers engineers are sects and scientists these professions tal them to hey donot lead them tar beyond the borders jot their own country i I 1 such houses as those shown in the pictures are little exper than the best of the own your on home houses offered to sale pear new louis XIII castle the noble p ie with the sloping roof knowal chateau de Villandry a be bought for 2 it was built toward the close of the sixteenth century and Is regarded as a very pure specimen of that period the wings of the house enclose a beautiful court of honor there are ornamental gardens an the french and english done experienced landscape gardeners toward the close ot the last century A lake lies in the woods of the large park surrounding the house and there are conservatories terraces in the front of the chateau and several islands in the river cher that belong to the property older still is the chateau near bruex 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 alter actions or changes in any other style since it was first built there is a court of honor and the lake as the picture shows stretches almost to the windows in one wing of the house just was bu it the principal building is two and a halt stories high and is accounted re both in original beauty and in its present state of i reservation there are kitchen and fru t gardens conservatories and a very old chapel antedating even the building of the chateau de marguette Far guette main house the park was laid out by the famous le notre ii bu it in S century the chateau de marguette Far guette stands near a palace famous in medieval days the castle is medieval in architecture having been built in the sixteenth cen tury it Is in good preservation how ever and has been occupied until re bently when it as put on the market the cost of this t ouse and its twenty acres is but as the revere ture of the house is proof of its an although that would not en dear it to many persons who seel for more beauty in a home to those who want a castle that not only is real old but also looks old the un adorned exterior would not be repel lent for 30 there is a beautiful cha in the style of louis IV that posses ss a park of twenty acres and a facade of stone columns from one end of the house to the other there are also beautiful woods and architect archi tec tural gardens attached to ft another chateau that looks as big as a railroad station can be bought for although it was put up in 1760 by one of the most noted archi sects of h s day then there are sixty two acres of wild and ornamented ground about the house another chateau more modern but beautiful can be had for 22 along with its twelve acres it has existed for about a century and years ago re calved the name of le chateau des penitents because of its rather attical aspect the seine runs at the foot of the awn and the views from the windows stretch through the valley to pans there are many other chateaux of the same 1 ind offered tor sale but these are cyp cal and show that next to spain france is an easy country to acquire a home in |
