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Our chambre d’hote was in a chateau that had seen
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sun before the ivy-clad façade of the old chateau – our
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This citadel resembled a French chateau rather than the Moresque forts of Spain; but the guns made little impression upon it, and I rode back to El Pozo, where Battery A, Captain Grimes, was entrenched on a ridge opposing San Juan
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We were watching the latest broadcast from France about a group of terrorists who were holding fifty people hostage in an old chateau
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"It's the chateau," I told him
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And that's where the soldiers found us, after they had stormed the chateau, tied to an old garden bench, precariously perched on the top of an antique wardrobe, both snoring loudly in an alcoholic stupor
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"Off them French soldiers in the chateau," he told me proudly
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The idea that we would always set up in a cozy chateau somewhere
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“Le chateau, le maison; the windows might be open and the perimeter guarded, but at what distance?”
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It was the usual chateau
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The lights still hadn’t gone off in the chateau!
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The German Imperial flag was revealed on a big pole in front of the chateau
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Maybe it was the shape of the bottle, or the crudely printed chateau and vineyard on the label
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And she didn’t have Oriental eyes but the eyes of a Gaul from a tribe that had seen slaughter on the battlefield in a war with the Moors, the eyes of a tribe that had waited behind the battlements of a castle under siege, the eyes of a tribe that was soon going to die from hunger, the eyes of a tribe that had gone on to achieve the ultimate in civilization and art under the Sun King, the eyes of a tribe whose spirituality and faith and craftsmanship and endeavor and ability had built the Notre Dame, the eyes of a tribe who had spawned Francois Villon, Joan of Arc, Flaubert, and Balzac and Mallarme and Chateau Briand and Baudelaire and
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some friends with the French ASCAP office, to recuperate at their chateau in the south
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He swam every morning in the heated pool in the chateau
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the ravishing French weather and go for a walk in the woods near the chateau
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To the east, Quai des Etats Unis leads towards The Chateau on its hill overlooking the Port
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The village church in Rennes le Chateau was built
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airport to see you off and we will meet again at our Chateau in the South of
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The nameplate read Chateau De Bollezeele
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The camera now showed old photographs of the Ferris family back in Macclesfield and told the story of the family right up until that day at the chateau so that viewers could identify with an ordinary family whose sons went to war and only one returned
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bottle of Chateau Margaux 2009 even though I had no clue what it was
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"I see you ladies like the Chateau Margaux since you drank the whole bottle
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To explain this enhanced awareness: If I had been an expert horticulturist walking through the park at the Chateau of Versailles, I would have noted at a glance, within the endless variety of plants, trees, and flowers, their genus and life-cycle, the provinces they came from, appreciated the many tons of earth that had to be shifted, the over-all design of the garden, its history, and the decades of work required to construct it
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We can get one from just up the road, and go to the Chateau de Chillon
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It only takes about fifteen minutes, and we could have lunch there after we’ve looked round the Chateau
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running of Chateau Smith-Mouzon (the name we christened the house with almost 13
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Besides, I distinctly remember you saying that if you forgot my birthday, I could have that bottle of ’82 Chateau Gruard Larose that’s in your cellar
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Richard had been singularly focused on securing Henri’s position with the royal family, sending his son to Chateau d ‘Amboise to live and obtain an education
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The wedding, held at the Chateau, was far more lavish than Dominique would have wanted
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Surrounded by royals constantly and essentially treated like royalty, Dafne once again found that she could enjoy riding endlessly on the grounds of the Chateau, just as she had done as a girl in Tuscany
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Why not move to some chateau in the south of France?”
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Damn and blast the Chateau Nova Hotel!
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(They don't even sell beer in the damn-and-blasted Chateau Nova Hotel ; it's really, really insane
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The Chateau Nova Hotel lies on the border of these two parts, and is only 300 ft
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In the Chateau Nova they don't even serve dinner on a Sunday
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There must also be some emails waiting for me, and I won't be able to answer them from the Chateau Nova Hotel as, for some reason, I cannot reach my Hungarian mail server from there
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Over the first couple of blocks, the adrenaline wore off and the latent tang of the Chateau Margaux dissipated
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‘What’s your favourite?’ pouring his glass of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild
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He drank the end of the bottle and called for a Chateau Mouton Rothschild, specifically the cheapest vintage in stock, for he is but a peasant representing fellow peasants, haha
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He approached the chateau and became increasingly aware of its sheer size as he drew nearer
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room, was asked no questions, enjoyed a good night’s sleep and a generous breakfast of croissants, toast and coffee and, just before ten in the morning, was walking up the drive to the huge front door of the Chateau Rouge
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The only place Valois did not visit was the tiny chapel attached to the Chateau Rouge
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It looked as if Chateau Rouge was the nearest and the tiny
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It did not take him long to get to Chateau Rouge and a few calls on some of the houses quickly led him to the lady with whom Daniel had lodged for the two nights recently
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Valois found the woman most forthcoming – description, what he was interested in and so on but the most important point to come out of their discussion was that she had told Daniel about the Sunday services being held in the chapel of the chateau
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If Daniel had been told about the chapel within the chateau, then it was probable that he had called there and the occupier would have even more recent information
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Karl van Rensburg is still at Chateau Rouge and the local population still use his private chapel for Sunday worship
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secluded chateau that Jimmy said he read about in The Times
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The shadow of a large high-roofed house, and of many over-hanging trees, was upon Monsieur the Marquis by that time; and the shadow was exchanged for the light of a flambeau, as his carriage stopped, and the great door of his chateau was opened to him
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It was a heavy mass of building, that chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, with a large stone courtyard before it, and two stone sweeps of staircase meeting in a stone terrace before the principal door
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It came on briskly, and came up to the front of the chateau
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If a picture of the chateau as it was to be a very few years hence, and of fifty like it as they too were to be a very few years hence, could have been shown to him that night, he might have been at a loss to claim his own from the ghastly, fire-charred, plunder-wrecked rains
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It would have been of as much avail to interrogate any stone face outside the chateau as to interrogate that face of his
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The fountain in the village flowed unseen and unheard, and the fountain at the chateau dropped unseen and unheard--both melting away, like the minutes that were falling from the spring of Time--
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In the glow, the water of the chateau fountain seemed to turn to blood, and the stone faces crimsoned
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The chateau awoke later, as became its quality, but awoke gradually and surely
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Some of the people of the chateau, and some of those of the posting-house, and all the taxing authorities, were armed more or less, and were crowded on the other side of the little street in a
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It portended that there was one stone face too many, up at the chateau
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But, he had not yet spoken to her on the subject; the assassination at the deserted chateau far away beyond the heaving water and the long, long, dusty roads--the solid stone chateau which had itself become the mere mist of a dream--had been done a year, and he had never yet, by so much as a single spoken word, disclosed to her the state of his heart
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"The chateau, and all the race?" inquired the first
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"The chateau and all the race," returned Defarge
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Madame Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending towards that point of the compass where the chateau of Monsieur the Marquis, now in his grave, listened to the whispering trees
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The trees environing the old chateau, keeping its solitary state apart, moved in a rising wind, as though they threatened the pile of building massive and dark in the gloom
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officers! The chateau is on fire; valuable objects may be saved from the flames by timely aid! Help, help!" The officers looked towards the soldiers who looked at the fire; gave no orders; and answered, with shrugs and biting of lips, "It must burn
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The chateau burned; the nearest trees, laid hold of by the fire, scorched and shrivelled; trees at a distance, fired by the four fierce figures, begirt the blazing edifice with a new forest of smoke
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Probably, Monsieur Gabelle passed a long night up there, with the distant chateau for fire and candle, and the beating at his door, combined with the joy-ringing, for music; not to mention his having an ill-omened lamp slung across the road before his posting-house gate, which the village showed a lively inclination to displace in his favour
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At last Emma remembered that at the chateau of Vaubyessard she had heard the Marchioness call a young lady Berthe; from that moment this name was chosen; and as old Rouault could not come, Monsieur Homais was requested to stand godfather
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La Huchette, in fact, was an estate near Yonville, where he had just bought the chateau and two farms that he cultivated himself, without, however, troubling very much about them
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Beyond the farmyard there was a detached building that she thought must be the chateau She entered—it was if the doors at her approach had opened wide of their own accord
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Rodolphe, who, to distract himself, had been rambling about the wood all day, was sleeping quietly in his chateau, and Leon, down yonder, always slept
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The Chateau D'If
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"The Chateau d'If?" cried he, "what are we going there for?" The gendarme smiled
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Are there any magistrates or judges at the Chateau d'If?"
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"You think, then," said he, "that I am taken to the Chateau d'If to be imprisoned there?"
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taking you to the Chateau d'If
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he was now confined in the Chateau d'If, that impregnable fortress, ignorant of the future destiny of his father and Mercedes; and all this because he had trusted to Villefort's promise
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"I am the Abbe Faria, and have been imprisoned as you know in this Chateau d'If since the year 1811; previously to which I had been confined for three years in the fortress of Fenestrelle
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"Are you not," he asked, "the priest who here in the Chateau d'If is generally thought to
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"Well, then," resumed Faria with a bitter smile, "let me answer your question in full, by acknowledging that I am the poor mad prisoner of the Chateau d'If, for many years permitted should be promoted to the honor of making sport for the children, if such innocent beings to amuse the different visitors with what is said to be my insanity; and, in all probability, I could be found in an abode devoted like this to suffering and despair
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Those that have been crowned with full success have been long meditated upon, and carefully arranged; such, for instance, as the escape of the Duc de Beaufort from the Chateau de Vincennes, that of the Abbe Dubuquoi from For l'Eveque; of Latude from the Bastille
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"I tore up several of my shirts, and ripped out the seams in the sheets of my bed, during my three years' imprisonment at Fenestrelle; and when I was removed to the Chateau d'If, I managed to bring the ravellings with me, so that I have been able to finish my work here
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Dantes obeyed, and commenced what he called his history, but which consisted only of the account of a voyage to India, and two or three voyages to the Levant until he arrived at the recital of his last cruise, with the death of Captain Leclere, and the receipt of a packet to be delivered by himself to the grand marshal; his interview with that personage, and his receiving, in place of the packet brought, a letter addressed to a Monsieur Noirtier—his arrival at Marseilles, and interview with his father—his affection for Mercedes, and their nuptual feast—his arrest and subsequent examination, his temporary detention at the Palais de Justice, and his final imprisonment in the Chateau d'If
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"Oh," added a third voice, "the shrouds of the Chateau d'If are not dear!"
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"The chaplain of the chateau came to me yesterday to beg for leave of absence, in order to take a trip to Hyeres for a week
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The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If
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The noise of the waves dashing against the rocks on which the chateau is built, reached Dantes' ear distinctly as they went forward
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The sea is the cemetery of the Chateau d'If
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Ratonneau and Pomegue are the nearest islands of all those that surround the Chateau d'If, but Ratonneau and Pomegue are inhabited, as is also the islet of Daume
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The islands of Tiboulen and Lemaire are a league from the Chateau d'If; Dantes, nevertheless, determined to make for them
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But, as we have said, it was at least a league from the Chateau d'If to this island
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He fancied that every wave behind him was a pursuing boat, and he redoubled his exertions, increasing rapidly his distance from the chateau, but exhausting his strength
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He swam on still, and already the terrible chateau had disappeared in the darkness
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As Dantes (his eyes turned in the direction of the Chateau d'If) uttered this prayer, he saw off the farther point of the Island of Pomegue a small vessel with lateen sail skimming the sea like a gull in search of prey; and with his sailor's eye he knew it to be a Genoese tartan
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He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Chateau d'If and the tower of Planier
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They were rapidly leaving the Chateau d'If behind
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" Dantes recollected that his hair and beard had not been cut all the time he was at the Chateau d'If
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"Hollo! what's the matter at the Chateau d'If?" said the captain
