1) " Chateau" -- As it applies to Chateau Lemoyne A château ( French for castle ; plural châteaux ) is a manor house or residence of the lord ofthe manor or a country house of gentry, usually French, with or without fortifications. The next step down in France is a maison de campagne, a "country house" with the usual English connotations of theword. There is a distinction in French between a maison de campagne and one that is merely a maison à la campagne,a "house in the country," perhaps a weekending retreat. The urban counterpart of "château" is palais (palace). Contents 1 The concept 2 French châteaux 2.1 Loire Valley 2.2 Dampiere-en-Yvelines 2.3 Bordeaux 3 See also 4 External links The concept If a château is not old, then it must be grand. A château is a "power house" as Sir John Summerson dubbed the English (andGeorgian Irish) " Stately homes " that are social counterparts of châteaux.It is the personal (and hopefully hereditary) badge of a family that represents the royal authority at some rank, locally. Thusthis word is often used to refer to a residence of a member of the French royalty or the nobility, but some fine châteaux, suchas Vaux-le-Vicomte were built by the essentially high bourgeois, but recently ennobled, tax-farmers and ministers of Louis XIII and his successors.A château is supported by its lands ( terres ), comprising a demesne that renders the society of the château largely self-sufficient, in the manner of the historic villa system of Rome and the Early Middle Ages. (Compare manorialism and hacienda.) The open Roman villas of the time of Pliny, Maecenas or emperor Tiberius began to be walled in, then fortified in the 3rd century, and evolved into castellar "châteaux." Even in modern use a château still retains some enclosuresthat are the distant descendants of these outworks: its fenced-off forecourt, with gates that could be closed and perhaps with a gatehouse or keep...
2) " Lemoyne" -- As it applies to Chateau Lemoyne NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship 7: *1975 Lemonye -Owen College|LeMoyne -Owen 57-54 Rowan University|Glassboro State 18: otsdam|Potsdam St. 76-73 Lemoune -Owen College|LeMoyne -Owen List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania 463: * Lemotne , Pennsylvania|Lemoyne Lemoyje ...
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