What I love the most about the Chateau Diaries, is the history that Stefanie shares, I have learned more about France than I ever knew before, thank you Stephanie ❤
I can see LaLande being a B&B & musium for France forever & centuries of those like you telling its story with you being such a part of its History-Story. Bravo, Stephanie.*** Such amazing tid-bits of history you hold & share with us all like gold.***
Yes your detail to History sets you apart from other Chateau programs! They mostly cover renovation, but oh the History you take time to tell makes this more than a renovation video! You take away the intrigue of the renovation, but you take away more , History! Not only if your chateau, but of even the Holidays you take! It’s also a travel destination video and lesson in History of those Holidays! Bravo!
I agree. My favorite Chateau Diaries videos are the ones where she tells us of the history of (fill in the blank) subject/items. No one else does that. I know she has music work shops but I happen to believe history work shops would be a big smash.
Stephanie this is you at your very , very best, you are so amazing in the way that you naturally are able to translate so beautifully for us all. You are the most wonderful orator x God Bless
I just love listening to you talk about history and relating it within your vlogs. Thank you so much and keep being you. I think you have a future career in sharing your knowledge with us history buffs.
I would love to be able to buy a set of cards with your father’s art on them. Especially the incredibly detailed early ones. I have no more room in my home for art, as I am a 4th generation artist myself, but I love getting cards or postcards of art that inspires me. Then you would have them to sell to tourists and people who stay at your chateau. Thank you for sharing your home with us and your passion.
Stephanie, you make me feel like I should be there with you. You are an inspiration ☺️. I LOVE history and you putting in the history of Lalonde is fantastic!!! Please make sure you give some history with ea blog. Thank you for sharing ❤️
I've dipped in and out of your videos for a while now and, suddenly, things have just "clicked" and I am in total admiration and awe of you and your beautiful château. I subscribed right away. I don't know why it took me so long! Keep doing what you're doing 👍🏻❤️
Dear Stephanie, Oh my word....I absolutely fell in love with all the history that gave. Thank you so much. Stumbled upon your channel the other day and I cannot stop watching all your wonderful videos. ~Joanna♡ Ohio,USA
You've brought so much joy and entertainment in our lives each week with your vlogs. Patreon is a fitting way for many of us to show our appreciation. As others have said a calendar, Christmas card, and maybe even a Lalande recipe book featuring dishes from you and your very talented volunteers.
I LOVE your vlog. I especially love this episode. MMA is one of my favorite places to visit in NYC. I urn 60 next year, my gift to myself is to visit Chateau De Lalande. My husband is excited!! Again love your vlog. Can't wait to see more adventures!
You are more than a chatelaine, you are a historian, decorator, seamstress, archivist extraordinaire. I’m utterly addicted to these vlogs and the wealth of knowledge and charming warmth with which you share it all with us. Merci mille fois, Stéphanie. Vous êtes un merveille.
I've been binge watching your vlogs and I just LOVE your mother....SHE'S THE BEST!!! I also love Percy and your tartan brother 💙.....you are truly blessed!
Well, I’m just sitting here freezing my arse off in Canada 🇨🇦 and I put on your videos....and I’m suddenly transported into your magical world and I feel happy. Love your channel and your fabulous chateau life. Thank you 🙏🏻
This is the most charming channel. I've subscribed with enthusiasm and told all my friends. You're an inspiration dear Stephanie, and your friends and the chateau visitors are adorable. Your videos are a delight and I look forward to each new installment. What a beautiful life you've made. Thank you for sharing it with us. Now off to feather my own petit chateau!
I love hearing all of the history and to know that this is so important to you and that you actually enjoy learning the history and embrace this project. It makes me excited to learn more and embrace it as well. I'm glad you've set up a Patreon page. I think it will be very positive and helpful.
Would you be able to offer a one time donation option? That way many of us can help as often as we can without making a monthly commitment. It would also be nice to contribute to specific things. A chapel donation page or a lake donation page. Some of your patrons are elderly and might want to leave the chateau a bequest. Also, do you have a FedEx address/account so that patrons can send you and the chateau gifts? You are such a lovely person and have brought so many joy with your vlogs. I love "living" with you and your friends and can't wait for each new video. You and your mother have such big hearts and a wonderful zest for life. Your style and taste is excellent. I read all of the comments and you have been offered so many good suggestions. I'm thrilled with this new endeavor and send you love and best wishes. Hugs and love from Tennessee.
Barbara Crane, I thought the same regarding donations. I committed to only 10$ per month, but I would love to gift more when I have it, without a monthly commitment. For instance, each year I donate a portion of our tax returns to different organizations. There are other months of the year that we see a little extra at the end of the month i.e. once the furnace is no longer running 24 hours a day to keep our house warm in the winter. Our budget can include a little extra for the Chateau during the warmer months. There are many times during the year that I can afford to gift more. I hope Stephanie sees your suggestions, because I want to see all of her and her mother’s dreams come true regarding this huge labor of love.
@@cynthialawlor2420 Yes, Cynthia, exactly. I think there are many of us who would like to donate when we have more to set aside. I love Chateau de LaLande and the "family". I look forward to every vlog, but I cannot commit to every month. I hope Stephanie can come up with a solution for her other fans.
I agree with the mailing address- many of us that have been collecting French antiques our whole lives would love to add a treasure to of this special château.
........ I find myself revisiting these Vlogs ...... I love the history lessons ...... the journeys ...... travels ...... PEOPLE ....... I have a yoga / pilates studio = my job is to destress my clients ...... Stephanie & Friends bring me the same relaxation I am required to give others ....... Namaste & Zen Hugs
Thank you for the entertaining educational tour of the French rooms! I look forward to your videos with your travels, decor and history all given is such a lovely way. Yes, bravo for being such a blessing to your followers.
Oh yes!!! I was one who had strongly suggested that you start a Patreon account. Both of your vlog series and your amazing restoration project are so worth our support. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to share in your joy! With huge hugs from Calgary, Canada (deep in the frozen North and covered with snow at the minute!!)
How fascinating! Thank you for letting me see this museum, even a small part, its just gorgeous!!! I hope you will get all the funding you need, but don't forget to finish decorating rooms that matter to YOU most (your own bedroom, kitchen)... meaning fill your cup first.... and after that spend on the rooms that you share with guest.
Loved your journey into art history. Sooo interesting to listen to you. Renovating chateaus are important, but the art and history behind such places are also important.
Hi there! I love your channel. I am not as passionate about all the same things that you are but I love the passion and joy that your choices are bringing you and those around you! I am so glad to learn about all these different things that you are interested in. Your channel has become one of my favorite!
Count me in Stephanie. I am going to join today if possible once I return from work this evening. Wow you are so well read otherwise how would you be able to give us the information you do. In just a vlog of such a short duration you cover so much more than a one hour TV programme does. Its not because I want anything from being a member, I just want to see someone like you who is so enthusiastic and hardworking reach your goal as soon as possible. Take care and God Bless
Stephanie, how exciting!! Your vlogs bring me such joy, a lover of history indeed! What a wonderful endeavor you have put together via Patreon to restore Lalande! I will happily commit & share this video! 🦚🦚🥂🏰
So interesting! I love all the history you share in your videos. Your enthusiasm is contagious! Have the previous owners been back to see all you’ve done? I hope they now realize that they sold to the right gal!! I bought an 8000 sq ft historic manor home, restored it and went on to win awards. When I bought it at age 29, the auctioneer almost didn’t let me in to the open house and refused to give me the brochure. He later apologized.
Yes the cushion was what I saw first❣️ Every time the Titanic is brought up it brings back my memories of my Grandme’re , Georgette Becker , who was a 12 year old French orphan on a French steamer that relieved an SOS from the Titanic , she was born in Paris in 1899 and went on to have a wonderful life in California. Love your videos and will be a supporter !
Stephanie, at 19:58 a tiny light travels from the floor on the left of the screen upwards past the door. I think that someone in spirit was enjoying this talk as much as I did! 😀💕
Stephanie I could listen to you all day. I found your channel last week, and subscribed imediatley. I am catching up with every video you have made. I am totally addicted.xx
I think your channel is going to do smashing, in numbers. You'll be up to a 100,000 in no time. With the current world affairs, people are switching off their tv's and finding delightful channels on Utube such as yours. Shows with real people, people that have passions , enthusiasm, and the roll-your-sleeve-up, kind of mind-set. I'm happy to have found your channel less than a week ago.
This is Monday, I am just amazed at the beauty, and history. It fills my heart with joy that there are others who enjoy french history as well. Much, much success. I can only dream and live thru your journey, you and mother will make it. It helps me to see someone enjoy their mother he way I use to. God bless!!!
Such beauty at the Met, and such interesting, varied lives the individuals donating the furnished rooms lived. LaLande has such character and potential. It is so beautiful now. I still think you should plant a vineyard and start the LaLande label! Wonderful that you've started a Patreon account. Thank you for this and all your beautiful vlogs.
Thankyou for this wonderful video! I loved it and yes I think all us ladies should have a round room! Love the history.. Thankyou for sharing. I so enjoy this little escape from mundane life. I love history and especially the lives and little details you doni't read in history books.. like the details you shared here.. That is amazing history of Lalande. Fascinating stories of the people behind the donations.. Thankyou have a lovely week.. xo
My dearest Stephanie: I saw the cushion with the initial M for Marie Antoinette and I thought you really should make yourself one for one of your rooms with your initial on it. I think that would be a lovely, fairly quick and inexpensive project you could do and it would be great fun. I wish I could become a donor on your Patreon page but I live a very poor life as I am physically disabled and have been for years. I greatly enjoy all of your videos and you make my life brighter for the time that I watch you and your family bring the chateau to life again. If I ever win the lottery I would love to make a huge donation to you and to come and stay and be able to see the chateau in person and to meet all of you. Thank you for being the wonderful and vivacious woman you are. Sincerely, Carole H.
What a wonderful world of beauty and intrigue you have opened up for us - the French Galleries at the MET are glorious. The stories you shared about the donors are fascinating and I want to read more about their lives. I am very pleased to have become a patron and to be contributing, in some small way, to the ongoing care and restoration of your beautiful chateau.
I love the historical background you give to the built heritage Stephanie. You showcase Lalande and all of these very special spaces and in doing so revive the 'genius loci' - so often overlooked in this digital age. In the modern world we easily forget that all of these rooms have contained the thoughts hopes, joys, sadnesses, ideas, and celebrations of many individuals, and generations...for centuries.
Stephanie you should also think about producing merchandise! Even something tiny like notebooks with covers which reflect the decor of a chosen room. I'm sure this would produce an income to help with renovations. ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Such an interesting vlog Stephanie and would so love to visit the Met in NY. I was interested also in that magnificent book you showed at the end with all the period rooms at the museum. When you have a minute see if the Croome Court tapestry room is there. It should be as it was bought and installed there in the 1940s ,I believe. My daughter and husband run the property in Worcestershire for The National Trust and i volunteer there too. The Tapestry Room was dismantled lock stock and barrel , ceiling,floor etc as well as the very beautiful tapestries. All we have at the court now as far as that room is concerned are photos and a Robert Adam designed jug and ewer set with stand that was made for the room in the 18th C. I love your Chateau and your vlogs and will certainly contribute via patreon. 💚💚
I just thought of something you could add for one of the tiers of Patreon (perhaps the Count and Countess tier) - a special personalized Lalande Advent Calendar sent each Christmas!! What do you think?
To help you raise money, you could do silent auctions...with things that were found around the land and the chateau that you could part with....also you could have people donate money for plants and have their names on little wooden blocks saying that the plant or tree was donated by.......you could have people names engraved in tiles (the patron would buy a tile and have their name on it around on the floors of the out buildings...people are so happy to see you doing this and your enthusiasm is infectious.....great blessings and love for all that you are doing to keep this history alive
Hi Stephanie as always love anything to do with French decorative arts so thanks for that! Just a little correction: Louis XV had at least seven daughters those are just the official ones so you had said he only had one daughter in your video and may want to correct that. Cheers and thanks again
Stephanie, I understand better your excitement in purchasing the panels from the hotel shown in a recent vlog ( that is one year after this was made). I love the Met Museum in New York. It was required visit for my undergraduate degree. I am afraid most interest was in the Egyptian rooms. With your enthusiasm, I will pay more attention to these French rooms, which elevate the decorative arts, on my next visit to the Met. Stephanie, you are a born teacher!!
Your dress looks lovely on you ..love your chateau. It’s interesting how you spoke about woman staying with rich men even if perhaps unhappy;but if they left they’d be penniless. I wonder how many women through the ages were stuck in this kind rut.
So interesting, informative & beautiful. Thank you Stephanie once again for a wonderfully enjoyable vlog 🏰💛 Excited for what the future holds for you and your magnificent Chateau 🏰. Beautiful Blessings Mandy 👑SA
I am SO glad to see how successful your patronage program has been! Do you have any idea what the paneling lost looked like? We are truly blessed in the US to have such an extraordinary museum with The Met. Would you believe I've lived in NYS my entire life without ever stepping foot in NYC?
I just saw your comment about this on my Patreon page and I’m fascinated by the idea, I’ve never considered it before! I’ll definitely look into it, thank you ❤️
Fascinating tour/history. Excellent. Your knowledge and enthusiasm are a great combination. (Thank you for introducing us to Jayne Wrightsman.) I think you should present seminars.
Hello Stephanie :) I found your channel by some coencidence, I loved your story about you getting your chateau, I'm not particularly into chateaus but it so interesting and I find it relaxing listening to your voice :) I'd love to support you a little in your big project! Good luck and can't wait to follow you on the way to restoring the place ;)
Great video as always. Just one small correction if I may: Louise-Elisabeth de France was not the only daughter of Louis XV, in fact he had 8 daughters (only counting the legitimate ones, the list grows much longer if you include the illegitimate children). She was however the eldest daughter and the only one who married.
I think your patronage idea is a sound one. I rehabbed a 100 yr old 3.5 story home and it was a constant money pit but I loved it for 30 Years. It was my ever evolving art form. I still miss it but love being in the city with my daughter and 1 and 2 yo granddaughters. Next time you are in NYC you might enjoy The Shady Ladies or Dressed to Kill tours at the MET. They tell you the back stories going on in the artwork since many weren’t just paid models but real people with agendas. I think they also do a tour or tours in Paris. I could see you doing something similar in parts of France or in seminars on your property. You might also take a few days and head to Newport,RI to see Marble House, which was Alva Vanderbilt’s homage to the Petit Trianon, especially but also the other NYC summer cottages from the late 19th c. Newport is a gem. Depending on the day and time you are able to escape NYC, It’s an easy 3 to 4 hr drive from the city.
I never thought of that but you're ablsolutely right. I have been to Versailles and toured the Petit Trianon. Now that I think of it, the comparisons are exacting. Thanks for sharing that. One day I hope to get to Rhode Island. So many beautiful stately homes there.
What I love the most about the Chateau Diaries, is the history that Stefanie shares, I have learned more about France than I ever knew before, thank you Stephanie
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I can see LaLande being a B&B & musium for France forever & centuries of those like you telling its story with you being such a part of its History-Story. Bravo, Stephanie.*** Such amazing tid-bits of history you hold & share with us all like gold.***
Yes your detail to History sets you apart from other Chateau programs! They mostly cover renovation, but oh the History you take time to tell makes this more than a renovation video! You take away the intrigue of the renovation, but you take away more , History! Not only if your chateau, but of even the Holidays you take! It’s also a travel destination video and lesson in History of those Holidays! Bravo!
I agree. My favorite Chateau Diaries videos are the ones where she tells us of the history of (fill in the blank) subject/items. No one else does that. I know she has music work shops but I happen to believe history work shops would be a big smash.
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Great username! My favourite yet, along with HellOnHeels.
Stephanie this is you at your very , very best, you are so amazing in the way that you naturally are able to translate so beautifully for us all.
You are the most wonderful orator x God Bless
The Chateau is so lucky to have you taking such great care of it.
I just love listening to you talk about history and relating it within your vlogs. Thank you so much and keep being you. I think you have a future career in sharing your knowledge with us history buffs.
You are so informed and your manner of story telling is magnificent.. I was on the edge of my chair listening!!! Lol Stephanie 🌻🌸🧡🐙
Sarah, I so agree
I would love to be able to buy a set of cards with your father’s art on them. Especially the incredibly detailed early ones. I have no more room in my home for art, as I am a 4th generation artist myself, but I love getting cards or postcards of art that inspires me. Then you would have them to sell to tourists and people who stay at your chateau. Thank you for sharing your home with us and your passion.
She could sell them online too. Cards and wrapping paper or tote bags or cushion covers of her fathers art
What a great idea! I would buy several sets for gifts!!!
Thank you for the history and the lovely stories ... I love following all that you do at your Chateau! All the best.
The paneling is exquisite! Thank you for sharing this, the furniture is also gorgeous!
Stephanie, you make me feel like I should be there with you. You are an inspiration ☺️. I LOVE history and you putting in the history of Lalonde is fantastic!!! Please make sure you give some history with ea blog. Thank you for sharing ❤️
I've dipped in and out of your videos for a while now and, suddenly, things have just "clicked" and I am in total admiration and awe of you and your beautiful château. I subscribed right away. I don't know why it took me so long! Keep doing what you're doing 👍🏻❤️
✨Professional story teller!! 👏🏽✨
Definitely a personalised Christmas card of the chateau in the snow! Maybe an invite for an event once a year of their choice?
The magnificent artwork, the beautiful stories and your vibrant personality... this was just wonderful. Thank you!
Now that I know the importance of watching the ads prior to your videos, I watched them in their entirety!
Dear Stephanie,
Oh my word....I absolutely fell in love with all the history that gave. Thank you so much. Stumbled upon your channel the other day and I cannot stop watching all your wonderful videos. ~Joanna♡ Ohio,USA
You've brought so much joy and entertainment in our lives each week with your vlogs. Patreon is a fitting way for many of us to show our appreciation. As others have said a calendar, Christmas card, and maybe even a Lalande recipe book featuring dishes from you and your very talented volunteers.
I LOVE your vlog. I especially love this episode. MMA is one of my favorite places to visit in NYC. I urn 60 next year, my gift to myself is to visit Chateau De Lalande. My husband is excited!! Again love your vlog. Can't wait to see more adventures!
I really enjoyed this video, very interesting. I really hope you get your Lake back for future generations. 🥰
You are more than a chatelaine, you are a historian, decorator, seamstress, archivist extraordinaire. I’m utterly addicted to these vlogs and the wealth of knowledge and charming warmth with which you share it all with us. Merci mille fois, Stéphanie. Vous êtes un merveille.
So many exciting things for the Chateau La Lande! I have never been so interested in history like the way you tell it! ❤️🇨🇦
I've been binge watching your vlogs and I just LOVE your mother....SHE'S THE BEST!!! I also love Percy and your tartan brother 💙.....you are truly blessed!
Thank you! I’m going to see Mummy and Percy next week and I’m SO EXCITED! I’ve missed them 💛
Incredible!!! Please continue what you're doing, it is the secret to your success!!!
Well, I’m just sitting here freezing my arse off in Canada 🇨🇦 and I put on your videos....and I’m suddenly transported into your magical world and I feel happy. Love your channel and your fabulous chateau life. Thank you 🙏🏻
This is the most charming channel. I've subscribed with enthusiasm and told all my friends. You're an inspiration dear Stephanie, and your friends and the chateau visitors are adorable. Your videos are a delight and I look forward to each new installment. What a beautiful life you've made. Thank you for sharing it with us. Now off to feather my own petit chateau!
Thank you so much, Marta!
The French rooms at the met are my absolute favorite simply Devine.. thanks for the tour . .
I love hearing all of the history and to know that this is so important to you and that you actually enjoy learning the history and embrace this project. It makes me excited to learn more and embrace it as well. I'm glad you've set up a Patreon page. I think it will be very positive and helpful.
Would you be able to offer a one time donation option? That way many of us can help as often as we can without making a monthly commitment. It would also be nice to contribute to specific things. A chapel donation page or a lake donation page. Some of your patrons are elderly and might want to leave the chateau a bequest. Also, do you have a FedEx address/account so that patrons can send you and the chateau gifts? You are such a lovely person and have brought so many joy with your vlogs. I love "living" with you and your friends and can't wait for each new video. You and your mother have such big hearts and a wonderful zest for life. Your style and taste is excellent. I read all of the comments and you have been offered so many good suggestions. I'm thrilled with this new endeavor and send you love and best wishes. Hugs and love from Tennessee.
Barbara Crane, I thought the same regarding donations. I committed to only 10$ per month, but I would love to gift more when I have it, without a monthly commitment. For instance, each year I donate a portion of our tax returns to different organizations. There are other months of the year that we see a little extra at the end of the month i.e. once the furnace is no longer running 24 hours a day to keep our house warm in the winter. Our budget can include a little extra for the Chateau during the warmer months. There are many times during the year that I can afford to gift more. I hope Stephanie sees your suggestions, because I want to see all of her and her mother’s dreams come true regarding this huge labor of love.
@@cynthialawlor2420 Yes, Cynthia, exactly. I think there are many of us who would like to donate when we have more to set aside. I love Chateau de LaLande and the "family". I look forward to every vlog, but I cannot commit to every month. I hope Stephanie can come up with a solution for her other fans.
I agree with the mailing address- many of us that have been collecting French antiques our whole lives would love to add a treasure to of this special château.
It is so fabulously presented, as always. Thank you for being so delightful and inviting. Your time and effort are much appreciated.
Your attention to detail,emotional attachment to this rooms shows through
👍For mentioning Michael's design and hanging it here
........ I find myself revisiting these Vlogs ...... I love the history lessons ...... the journeys ...... travels ...... PEOPLE ....... I have a yoga / pilates studio = my job is to destress my clients ...... Stephanie & Friends bring me the same relaxation I am required to give others ....... Namaste & Zen Hugs
Thank you for the entertaining educational tour of the French rooms! I look forward to your videos with your travels, decor and history all given is such a lovely way. Yes, bravo for being such a blessing to your followers.
Oh yes!!! I was one who had strongly suggested that you start a Patreon account. Both of your vlog series and your amazing restoration project are so worth our support. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to share in your joy! With huge hugs from Calgary, Canada (deep in the frozen North and covered with snow at the minute!!)
How fascinating! Thank you for letting me see this museum, even a small part, its just gorgeous!!! I hope you will get all the funding you need, but don't forget to finish decorating rooms that matter to YOU most (your own bedroom, kitchen)... meaning fill your cup first.... and after that spend on the rooms that you share with guest.
You never fail to brighten my day!
I just found you while recovering from a cold. I’m absolutely addicted. What a beautiful life you have. Subscribed.
You are such a wonderful storyteller Stephanie, I really enjoyed this video
Loved your journey into art history. Sooo interesting to listen to you. Renovating chateaus are important, but the art and history behind such places are also important.
I have been watching you for a while now. You are so well spoken, and I really enjoy your stories.
Hi there! I love your channel. I am not as passionate about all the same things that you are but I love the passion and joy that your choices are bringing you and those around you! I am so glad to learn about all these different things that you are interested in. Your channel has become one of my favorite!
Something beautiful will happen to make all your dreams come true. Good luck with it all. You so deserve a joyous outcome. x
Count me in Stephanie. I am going to join today if possible once I return from work this evening. Wow you are so well read otherwise how would you be able to give us the information you do. In just a vlog of such a short duration you cover so much more than a one hour TV programme does.
Its not because I want anything from being a member, I just want to see someone like you who is so enthusiastic and hardworking reach your goal as soon as possible. Take care and God Bless
Stephanie, how exciting!! Your vlogs bring me such joy, a lover of history indeed! What a wonderful endeavor you have put together via Patreon to restore Lalande! I will happily commit & share this video! 🦚🦚🥂🏰
So interesting! I love all the history you share in your videos. Your enthusiasm is contagious! Have the previous owners been back to see all you’ve done? I hope they now realize that they sold to the right gal!! I bought an 8000 sq ft historic manor home, restored it and went on to win awards. When I bought it at age 29, the auctioneer almost didn’t let me in to the open house and refused to give me the brochure. He later apologized.
The previous owners do visit the chateau and are pleased with what she is doing.
Your knowledge of history amazes me. It's most enjoyable. 🦋
This has been a true delight...I feel an enthusiasm for Art, and life in general...it bouys my esprit!
Like yours!
Yes the cushion was what I saw first❣️ Every time the Titanic is brought up it brings back my memories of my Grandme’re , Georgette Becker , who was a 12 year old French orphan on a French steamer that relieved an SOS from the Titanic , she was born in Paris in 1899 and went on to have a wonderful life in California. Love your videos and will be a supporter !
Your passion is radiant. You literally reach through our phones and GRAB our attention. It's breathtaking and wonderful❤🥰
Stephanie, at 19:58 a tiny light travels from the floor on the left of the screen upwards past the door. I think that someone in spirit was enjoying this talk as much as I did! 😀💕
Mariel Calder nice sentiment but i think what we see is actually an insect 🌸💜
REALLY enjoyed this, thank you so very much. Lovely lady you are.x
Thank you, it is a joy to hear you speak...
This was so utterly wonderful Stephanie, thank you!!!..
I agree with Carla. Your knowledge and sharing of history is quite unique and delightful to learn about.
Stephanie I could listen to you all day. I found your channel last week, and subscribed imediatley. I am catching up with every video you have made. I am totally addicted.xx
I love watching the amount of subscribers going up and up for you each month!!!🌸💜❤️💛
The way I enjoyed the fellowship of my mother, God Bless.
I think your channel is going to do smashing, in numbers. You'll be up to a 100,000 in no time.
With the current world affairs, people are switching off their tv's and finding delightful channels on Utube such as yours. Shows with real people, people that have passions , enthusiasm, and the roll-your-sleeve-up, kind of mind-set. I'm happy to have found your channel less than a week ago.
I'm so pleased to now have the opportunity to support your wonderful dream!
Such amazing rooms and wonderful history behind them. Thank you Stephanie for another awesome video.
This is Monday, I am just amazed at the beauty, and history. It fills my heart with joy that there are others who enjoy french history as well. Much, much success. I can only dream and live thru your journey, you and mother will make it. It helps me to see someone enjoy their mother he way I use to. God bless!!!
Such beauty at the Met, and such interesting, varied lives the individuals donating the furnished rooms lived. LaLande has such character and potential. It is so beautiful now. I still think you should plant a vineyard and start the LaLande label! Wonderful that you've started a Patreon account. Thank you for this and all your beautiful vlogs.
Thankyou for this wonderful video! I loved it and yes I think all us ladies should have a round room! Love the history.. Thankyou for sharing. I so enjoy this little escape from mundane life. I love history and especially the lives and little details you doni't read in history books.. like the details you shared here.. That is amazing history of Lalande. Fascinating stories of the people behind the donations.. Thankyou have a lovely week.. xo
Thank you for this educational and intriguing video. Makes me want to visit so many more museums.
Sumptuous.... thank you so much Stephanie 💐
My dearest Stephanie: I saw the cushion with the initial M for Marie Antoinette and I thought you really should make yourself one for one of your rooms with your initial on it. I think that would be a lovely, fairly quick and inexpensive project you could do and it would be great fun. I wish I could become a donor on your Patreon page but I live a very poor life as I am physically disabled and have been for years. I greatly enjoy all of your videos and you make my life brighter for the time that I watch you and your family bring the chateau to life again. If I ever win the lottery I would love to make a huge donation to you and to come and stay and be able to see the chateau in person and to meet all of you. Thank you for being the wonderful and vivacious woman you are. Sincerely, Carole H.
I highly recommend the Metropolitan Museum.
What a wonderful world of beauty and intrigue you have opened up for us - the French Galleries at the MET are glorious. The stories you shared about the donors are fascinating and I want to read more about their lives. I am very pleased to have become a patron and to be contributing, in some small way, to the ongoing care and restoration of your beautiful chateau.
I love the historical background you give to the built heritage Stephanie. You showcase Lalande and all of these very special spaces and in doing so revive the 'genius loci' - so often overlooked in this digital age. In the modern world we easily forget that all of these rooms have contained the thoughts hopes, joys, sadnesses, ideas, and celebrations of many individuals, and generations...for centuries.
I watched the Ads so you get some $$ to repair the church. Love ya!
me too. i started again from the beginning to watch them again in order to see the ads as well. i love her
Thank you so much. This was delightful.
Omg I was at the Met in Aug before I saw your show and I was mesmerised by those rooms a videoed then also I am from Australia loved the Met the most
Captivating story, so interresting and very well said, you are very gracious and elegant chatelaine. So very injoyable!
I live here “ New York City“ and I’ve never been to the Metropolitan Museum. Lived here for 11 years now, I know quite sad. You’ve inspired me
I’m the same in London - we often forget to visit the place on our doorstep!
I love the educaction that I recieve while watching your very interesting vlogs!! (still catching up!!!)
Jane reminds me of my own Mother. I hope she is in peace. Robert in Michigan.
So so interesting You bring history to life!
Incredible information. Beautiful furnishings and rooms. I just love your channel!!
Stephanie you should also think about producing merchandise! Even something tiny like notebooks with covers which reflect the decor of a chosen room. I'm sure this would produce an income to help with renovations. ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
thank you for all the wonderful info. I must go take another look at these rooms now. They are so gorgeous.
I wish you had a book that chronicled the restoration.
Such an interesting vlog Stephanie and would so love to visit the Met in NY. I was interested also in that magnificent book you showed at the end with all the period rooms at the museum. When you have a minute see if the Croome Court tapestry room is there. It should be as it was bought and installed there in the 1940s ,I believe. My daughter and husband run the property in Worcestershire for The National Trust and i volunteer there too. The Tapestry Room was dismantled lock stock and barrel , ceiling,floor etc as well as the very beautiful tapestries. All we have at the court now as far as that room is concerned are photos and a Robert Adam designed jug and ewer set with stand that was made for the room in the 18th C. I love your Chateau and your vlogs and will certainly contribute via patreon. 💚💚
I just thought of something you could add for one of the tiers of Patreon (perhaps the Count and Countess tier) - a special personalized Lalande Advent Calendar sent each Christmas!! What do you think?
To help you raise money, you could do silent auctions...with things that were found around the land and the chateau that you could part with....also you could have people donate money for plants and have their names on little wooden blocks saying that the plant or tree was donated by.......you could have people names engraved in tiles (the patron would buy a tile and have their name on it around on the floors of the out buildings...people are so happy to see you doing this and your enthusiasm is infectious.....great blessings and love for all that you are doing to keep this history alive
The calendar of La Lalande is a great idea Stephanie. Use Michael photos and make a calendar and sell it. i would be glad to buy it.
Hi Stephanie as always love anything to do with French decorative arts so thanks for that!
Just a little correction: Louis XV had at least seven daughters those are just the official ones so you had said he only had one daughter in your video and may want to correct that. Cheers and thanks again
Thank you for sharing!! :)) One of my favourite videos by far 🙌🏼
Bradley K always so entertaining is our dear Stephanie 💕💙🌸🧡
How lovely. 🧡💛❤️♥️💜
Enjoyed this vlog enormously. Love history and the way you bring it to life. Thanks a million 😊
Fabulous information...Grazie
Stephanie, I understand better your excitement in purchasing the panels from the hotel shown in a recent vlog ( that is one year after this was made). I love the Met Museum in New York. It was required visit for my undergraduate degree. I am afraid most interest was in the Egyptian rooms. With your enthusiasm, I will pay more attention to these French rooms, which elevate the decorative arts, on my next visit to the Met. Stephanie, you are a born teacher!!
Your dress looks lovely on you ..love your chateau.
It’s interesting how you spoke about woman staying with rich men even if perhaps unhappy;but if they left they’d be penniless.
I wonder how many women through the ages were stuck in this kind rut.
So interesting, informative & beautiful. Thank you Stephanie once again for a wonderfully enjoyable vlog 🏰💛 Excited for what the future holds for you and your magnificent Chateau 🏰. Beautiful Blessings Mandy 👑SA
I am SO glad to see how successful your patronage program has been!
Do you have any idea what the paneling lost looked like?
We are truly blessed in the US to have such an extraordinary museum with The Met. Would you believe I've lived in NYS my entire life without ever stepping foot in NYC?
Please design a transferware plate with the chateau as the center, surrounded by what you love best. I would buy it!
I just saw your comment about this on my Patreon page and I’m fascinated by the idea, I’ve never considered it before! I’ll definitely look into it, thank you ❤️
Fascinating tour/history. Excellent. Your knowledge and enthusiasm are a great combination. (Thank you for introducing us to Jayne Wrightsman.) I think you should present seminars.
Hello Stephanie :) I found your channel by some coencidence, I loved your story about you getting your chateau, I'm not particularly into chateaus but it so interesting and I find it relaxing listening to your voice :) I'd love to support you a little in your big project! Good luck and can't wait to follow you on the way to restoring the place ;)
Fantastic !!!!!!!!!
Great video as always. Just one small correction if I may: Louise-Elisabeth de France was not the only daughter of Louis XV, in fact he had 8 daughters (only counting the legitimate ones, the list grows much longer if you include the illegitimate children). She was however the eldest daughter and the only one who married.
I think your patronage idea is a sound one. I rehabbed a 100 yr old 3.5 story home and it was a constant money pit but I loved it for 30 Years. It was my ever evolving art form. I still miss it but love being in the city with my daughter and 1 and 2 yo granddaughters. Next time you are in NYC you might enjoy The Shady Ladies or Dressed to Kill tours at the MET. They tell you the back stories going on in the artwork since many weren’t just paid models but real people with agendas. I think they also do a tour or tours in Paris. I could see you doing something similar in parts of France or in seminars on your property. You might also take a few days and head to Newport,RI to see Marble House, which was Alva Vanderbilt’s homage to the Petit Trianon, especially but also the other NYC summer cottages from the late 19th c. Newport is a gem. Depending on the day and time you are able to escape NYC, It’s an easy 3 to 4 hr drive from the city.
I never thought of that but you're ablsolutely right. I have been to Versailles and toured the Petit Trianon. Now that I think of it, the comparisons are exacting. Thanks for
sharing that. One day I hope to get to Rhode Island. So many beautiful stately homes there.