title: French Chateau Living: The Chteau du Lude
author: Barbara De Nicolay
description: <b>Barbara de Nicolay</b>and her husband, Count Louis-Jean de Nicolay, live at Chteau du Lude with their family.<br /><b>Eric Sanders</b> photographs have appeared in<i>Smithsonian, Life, Time, Newsweek, Le Figaro Magazine</i>, and in numerous books.
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  # White Lies
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles Reade
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Towards the close of the last century the Baron de Beaurepaire lived
  
  
  in the chateau of that name in Brittany. His family was of
  
  
  prodigious antiquity; seven successive barons had already flourished
  
  
  on this spot when a younger son of the house accompanied his
  
  
  neighbor the Duke of Normandy in his descent on England, and was
  
  
  rewarded by a grant of English land, on which he dug a mote and
  
  
  built a chateau, and called it Beaurepaire (the worthy Saxons turned
  
  
  this into Borreper without delay). Since that day more than twenty
  
  
  gentlemen of the same lineage had held in turn the original chateau
  
  
  and lands, and handed them down to their present lord.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Thus rooted in his native Brittany, Henri Lionel Marie St. Quentin
  
  
  de Beaurepaire was as fortunate as any man can be pronounced before
  
  
  he dies. He had health, rank, a 