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Example sentences for: châteaux
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A new opulent architecture blossomed with the châteaux of the Loire and around Paris.
France Miniature is a 5-hectare (7.5-acre) relief map of France including model villages, châteaux, and monuments to a scale of 1:30 (RER train to St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, then bus; open daily, 15 March–15 November).
Head for the tree-lined Summit Road, Summit Crescent, and Summit Circle and you’ll spot their ivy-covered mansions and grey-stone turreted châteaux half-concealed behind trees and shrubbery at the top of a grassy slope.
Similarly, architect Viollet-le-Duc often went overboard restoring some of the great Gothic cathedrals and medieval châteaux in ways their original creators had never imagined.
While the bourgeoisie’s red-brick or stone houses are clearly inspired by Georgian and Victorian London and grander residences by the country houses and châteaux of continental Europe, the working-class row houses with outside iron staircases leading to upper floors (thus saving space inside) are a more characteristic Montréal feature.