Owned by the Same Family for 1000 Years. Tour of a Real French Chateau with its Owner. 

They somehow managed the survive the French Revolution.

I love it too

Not hard if you've got $$$$$$$$$$...... And somehow it doesn't get diluted over centuries. My mothers family had a fief in germany in meideval times....1100s - early 1700s. By 1700s there were too many family members to be supported by it....... So it was sold and the money was used to provide a scholarship fund to pay for education of family members. But that's the problem.... Wealth typically gets diluted through generations as more and more people must to live off of it.

You mean 1000 years and more. The first existence of this castle dates back to 930, when a fortress was built, attested by a stone bearing this date and inlaid in the masonry of the tower. The fortress underwent alterations in the 13th century. Around the 18th century, it stopped being a defensive fortress and became a château de plaisance with extensive alterations and the addition of the Renaissance-style interior gallery, among many others.

Noblesse oblige.

He is the descendant of the owners

You're just saying all that so he can let you move in

​@@francinesicard464Windsor castle always comes up as the longest/oldest continually in habited castle, but it seems like this would be, so was it not lived in soon after 930?

I think that families that come from generational wealth are sometimes misunderstood, although I myself am quite prepared to disparage generational wealth when you have a bunch of no good, know nothing louts, that just flaunt their money and behave like baboons. I find these families that still inhabit the family seat take their duties very seriously nowadays. They are truly the keepers of history. Of course European history, also reeks of colonization and horrible crimes against humanity in other countries. Those are the horrors of those times. One cannot visit the sins of the father upon these people unless, of course, they are making those same sins themselves. I find it fascinating personally. I also watch, the American Viscountess, that married one of the Earls of Sandwich. I believe she is the second American, the first one being Viscountess Alberta. I hope I’m getting these titles correct. Being Canadian we tend to have close ties to both Britain and France. I am from Western Canada, and central Canada is more the French part of the country. Although the East Coast has provinces like New Brunswick, that also are very attached to the French. I admire this man for his humility, grace as well as his dedication to preserving and carrying on the family history. These are not the people you see on big yachts dripping in gold. These are the people that buy nothing but quality that lasts forever and instead of replacing it, they often repair it. THAT, is truly old money. Merci monsieur. ❤

​@@hopesprings4967That is the difference between "old" money & "new" money. The old money usually has old culture & history. The new money tends to often be cultureless and somewhat crude, hence the flaunting. So the biggest difference I see is that this man actually has generational history (& culture) as opposed to generational wealth which often has no history and lityle culture with it. As a side note you can always be cultured without excessive wealth, but the reverse is disasterous

I don't hate inherited wealth. That's what I want to give to my son. I hate Capitalism, which produces wealth exclusively

@@teemum.9023 I love free market capitalism. It's empowered me to develop a design agency and 2 print shops and make more money than I could ever imagine for myself as a college drop out. I think you may be confusing capitalism with crony-capitalism and monopolies.

@@teemum.9023 Yes! Brilliant, Capitalism is a failed system. I’d like to believe it came from a noble idea of expanding the middle class, my cynical/realistic side knows better. When Reagan introduced such a massive tax cut FOR the wealthy, that was the beginning of the end for the middle class. Without doubt, the wealthy elite own the politicians and write policy. Despicable.

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I agree! This was a very interesting tour, and if I get a chance, I’d love to see it in person.