See one family's progress in reviving a forgotten 18th-century French château.

When Karina and Craig Waters hired a car and headed on a scenic drive towards the Pyrenees, they weren’t seriously expecting to buy an 18th century, 96-room chateau.

A brand new luxury hotel is the perfect destination for anyone who’s ever dreamed about living like an 18th-century French noble — and it’s less than an hour away from Paris.

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Living the French dream! Close to the Provence town Lubéron lies this beautiful chateaux filled with orginal details and surrounded by nature (and it’s for sale)

Castle Zuylen was once the home of Belle van Zuylen, an 18th-century rebel with ‘a head full of imagination’. For her, the castle was both a gilded cage and sanctuary – a place where she wrote letters formulating her ideas on marriage and freedom, but also the manifestation of her position in society

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One couple breathes new life into an 18th century french château.

Grand staircase in Chateau de Pange Lorraine, France, 18th century.

In 2013, an Australian couple bought a crumbling château in the French Pyrenees. Five years and innumerable power outages, leaks and tears later, Tristan Rutherford discovers how a “naive willfulness” (and many eager volunteers) helped coax a ruin back to life.

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