Fit for a prince: The castles of France's Allier region
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The central French region of Allier is peppered with over 500 castles. These historic buildings are difficult to maintain in good condition, but the owners can count on the support of local residents. At the Château de Fourchaud, for example, some thirty enthusiastic volunteers are busy cleaning and repairing the monument. Prince Charles-Henri, a direct descendant of the Bourbons, appreciates their efforts.
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Good to see these places restored. We should never let history just fade away.
“It’s your heritage, it my heritage, we’ll restore it together” (*but I’ll retain ownership)
Exactly what I was thinking 😂 But in his defense, he has "ownership" of the taxes and fees that comes along with owning that property. Nobles don't live for free!
@@GLC2013 that would be because French people wouldn’t eat donuts. 😄 And coffee isn’t so healthy. I bet he comes with croissants 🥐 in the morning though.
It's a worthy endeavor to save and preserve the past by preserving architecture. Without tangible objects to remind, stories are lost.
It took a lot of work to build them and they should be preserved. I love taking care of my home. The prince deserves a lot of credit. 👏👏
500 castles in a "departement" of 7,340 km2 and about 360,000 inhabitants, that's a lot! Amazing region!
Wonderful places, very beautiful exposure
Beautiful castle!
When you're so rich you use free volunteer labour to do your castle restoration.
Who are these volunteers, and why are they helping some rich guy do his yard work for free?
I was thinking the same thing
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He is not rich. The royal family lost all their property in the various revolutions. He is not poor by most standards, but the castle restoration is beyond his means. Many castles are crumbling away because their owners cannot afford to maintain them.
Volunteers find it enriches their lives. Volunteering is a lot of fun. It can be hard work but you get to meet new people, find out about new things, learn new skills, make new friends. If you live alone & have the weekends free it makes them much more interesting. If you are retiring it can bring so much to your life, no need to stay home bored. I have had the most fun of my life volunteering & met great people.
I inherited 2 castles and land during my childhood in the 70s, in fact a watchtower against invasions and a ruined fortified castle, many members of my family had already lost their land and other property due to the weight of taxes, to preserve my assets I gave the usufruct of these assets to transfer these charges without having to lose all that.
My property is managed by the usufructuaries like tourist sites.
Nobody in my current circle is aware of it, besides nobody would believe me because I kept secret my noble origins.
Property tax really sucks!
@@sonicdeeofficial8925 If you have not already, go to: " Chataeu Diaries" Stephanie owns this lovely Castle and has been doing it over lovely." It is being done much like it was 'originally' and she has people who volunteer and some who work there all the time, and she is friends with them all! They work there and also live there and have dancing, and parties and so much more and it is on TH-cam. Very talented people and she is as well. Taking acting and artist work and her dad was a painter and they both ( her dad and mom owned a huge mansion which was restored years ago into a home for those with mental illness as they both were psychiatric nurses. Her mom lives there part-time as she remarried after her husband died * after they both the Chataeu * well Stephanie bought it really* and her mom goes to S. Africa to see her husband Percy when she can and her daughter stayed with all her friends. The home is also a Bed and Breakfast. It is in France. She has done very, very well and it is perfectly done, but she does have a youtube video out 'telling how expensive it is to keep running.' In this way, people would not get any wrong impressions as it looks easy as you watch the videos with all the fun they have even while working. She opens gifts on Sundays for those who would not mind watching and they et gifts for this lovely Chateau from all around the world. People love this program as she has a better site than TV could ever do. She is honest and looks like a Princess. She has always wanted to own a Castle and this is living her dream. I truly think you would enjoy it and she loves people coming to visit and staying at the Bed and Breakfast, coming as volunteers or to work. She welcomes all. This home was owned for hundreds of years by a marquise family and once someone from there was asked (that lived in this castle at that time) by 'King Louie the sixteenth 'to go and get 'Marie Antoinette', and the rest is history! She bought it from the last family of the marquis that owned this home. ( They also do come back occasionally to stay when the pandemic is not a problem anyway) She said " She knew she wanted this Chateau before she ever got into it to see it!
To understand exactly what I am talking about and to enjoy these videos as am sure you will and see how she has restored and made this work and maybe you would be able to visit her at the Bed and Breakfast and I am positive she would be honored to meet you, as she has French Chefs come to visit and many others. They even teach the people and everyone on Video how to make special pastries or a meal of some special kind. She does alot of searching and reading in order to make sure what she does at her home is done with the artwork and the beauty that the home deserves. She also can make the curtains and do over furniture etc.
just check it out and see if you like it and if not you can always just leave and never look at it again! But think you may truly enjoy it and relief she is someone easy to reach out to or just enjoy the videos? She knows it is not easy to keep the castle going financially, and will understand what you have gone through too, if she ever met with you personally. ( But the Sunday ones are usually opening gifts sent) Otherwise, there is much more activity and various things going on that are very interesting. Sorry, this is long but I am excited over the video and am not alone. I wish the owner of this Chateau could reach out to Stephanie as he too would love meeting someone like her they would have much in common I am sure!! She reads all the things people say on her videos but it is harder to answer them now. She even has answered ME in the past.
The grass, put some goats 🙂✌
These are so endearing! Astounding... there even a painting of Charles the 10th at 1:16 .... these castles look like fairytale💙
I guess this castle inherited me from my grand grand dad who was a janissary soldier in Ottoman Empire?
J'adore la belle France et les chateaux! 🇫🇷
Hermoso lugar.
BRILLIANT
France sure has a lot of castles perhaps the country would like to explain that
A Level History lives.
beautiful
History is erect and lively in all across Spain, France, Portugal, Poland, Baltic States. It is because of very powerful , invincible armies you have from 1500s.
Off with their heads! Volunteers are helping him. What a joke. Free serf labor.
It is obviously fun and exciting for them. If I were younger, I would like to do this too.
amazing....thumbs up ...don't see this stuff in the USA...
I want to live in a French castle. Yes, really! 😁
You can sleep in many castels in France. They propose Bed & Breakfast, and often it is not more expensive than in a hotel. But you have more charm.
Don't please too much foreigners are buying our castles
I want to own several castles. Including French castles.
And I'm American.
@@unemusiqueunjour You are letting them decay! If you do not want foreigners buying them, do something about it!
Also me hahah
Hi it's beautiful I which visit soon 👏🌷Kuwait
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I have never live in castle but I would like to!? I believe I would like to see real one up close:-)
3:33 ''My family believes in private sponsorship''. Except when is for paying the people that works for you while you rest.
Wao
Can someone take me here please ....
Caros amigos, a assistir esse vídeo me senti como se fizesse parte destes locais, estranha sensação para um nascido no terceiro mundo sul americano. Agradeço seu vídeo e lhes dou parabéns pelo trabalho. 😐😐😐😐😐
Lamentável que nãoestá dublado ou legendado em Português!
Gostaria que estivesse em português, pois muitas pessoas não falam outras línguas e não podem aproveitar essas belezas!
@@sergioochs6678 Aprenda a falar outras linguas. O mundo não acomoda falta de conhecimento ou preguiça.
Well, I don't know that anything built in the 19th century can really be called a "castle", but for any building with clear links to French national heritage, the people converting should be given genres tax incentives to do this work...
Tax changes in 2014 (?) shifted personal taxes to assets rather than income, forces MANY people to abandon these beautiful homes.
I hope elegance makes a comeback across the country, to stay.
I love the castles are beautiful,do es the prince come with the castles.
Cathy. USA
Mega Mega Mega.
this guy is my cousin , well not first cousin BUT i am Bourbon and De Orleans descent , oh all of them and not just french royals
I call it bullshit
Malarkey
Bien évidemment, c’est pour cela que vous avez mal écrit d’Orléans. Et en ce qui concerne les particules, on ne met jamais de majuscule au «de». Je doute que vous soyez de sang royal si vous ne savez pas ce genre de chose.
@@loiseaunoir7528 Les jeunes branches Bourbons/Orléans sont des Béarnais, il ne faut pas trop leur demander quand à la langue d'oïl
The first one is a grand house, for sure, but does it really count as a castle?
Yeah, that's a Chateau, not a castle.
Manor house. Chateau. No castle
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All buildings like this should be nationalized and converted to public museums. It's a disgrace for private individuals to be living like this in the 21st century.
Communist
The government can’t afford them, there’s about 7000 chateaus in France, half will cost millions to restore and will cost hundreds of thousands a year to maintain.
For the gov to restore all these it would cost around 30 billion, and cost around 4 billion a year in maintenance,
This isn’t even considering the cost to buy them, some of the ruins might be donated but the ones in better condition are peoples houses,
Let’s say half are donated, the other half are bought for an average of 3 million, that’s another 10 billion,
So 40 billion and another 4 billion annually...
I’m sure the French tax payers will be Pleased...
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"Notre héritage .." le gars il frappe a coup de pied la porte !
on es ou ?! 2:11
They need to get some animals in to graze that grass.
I thought that Louis Philippe I was the last Bourbon King of France.
Probably because he thinks that the Bourbon were the true heir of the throne of France instead of the Orléans represented by Louis-Philippe.
@@unemusiqueunjour My error. Louis-Philippe's mother was a Bourbon, of course, but his father was d'Orleans.
Louis-Philippe was not king of France, he was king of the French. Charles X was the last king of France.
Maybe y'all Heritage but whose property name id it in
You can't afford it you need to sell it
To who? No one wants them or can afford to fix them, they end up abandoned and in ruins.
He can afford "many castles in his estate," but he cannot afford to pay the "volunteers" one red cent for their work. How typically "noble."
Are the volunteers being forced to stay?
Seems to me you have too many rich people
I have French noble ancestry, does that mean I can go there and claim there castles.
Hey I was born in International airspace
Any rich men want to buy me one lol.
What do you offer in return?
If you promise to restore it and make it a tourist attraction within 5 years they will give you one for free in Italy.
owner does nothing
Who is the pretender or pretenders.
Jean d’Orléans compte de Paris (Orléanistes) ainsi que Louis de Bourbon (légitimistes) sont les deux prétendants au trône de France.
Prekratke su scene.
I have more money than you, so give me a discount. Oh, in that case, perhaps you should pay more.
Real life game of thrones lords
There is no sycophant like a French sycophant.
He goes in an audi a7, makes sense 👌🏼
How much is it to hire a faux fifteenth century French servant?
Can I just feed him with my leftovers...???
they are free if you invent some bulshit to attract them...