Owner of a French Chateau at 27 Years Old. Tour of her Restored Castle in Dordogne (France)
2023 ж. 22 Ақп.
88 849 Рет қаралды
The Chateau de Bridoire (Dordogne) was abandoned for more than 30 years, before being restored by the Guyot family.
It now belongs to Alice Guyot, daughter of Catherine and Jacques Guyot, who drives alone this castle which welcomes more than 60,000 visitors per year.
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The little dog following from room to room was a cute touch
I cannot overstate how happy I was to see the chapel and stables being restored and put to their proper use.
Wow! She is very pretty! Looks like they did a great job bringing the place back. Cheers Kirk
Loved the tour of the castle and stables. Although the Castle doesn't house a family anymore, it still felt alive and vibrant! Well done to its current family of caretakers
Nice translations! 😉😀
The castle is lovely, people have to be pretty bad to destroy a chapel. Thanks for the tour, I loved it.
Thank you for the wonderful tour and explaining the history. How wonderful that the local people fought to save this beautiful chateau and that the state sold it to your parents. They have restored it to its glory. You must be so proud to be part of this important restoration and will continue on for future. The table laid for the Wonderland " Mad Hatters Tea Party" looks so inviting.🎩👒👑🐰
Well done , to her and her parents! This must be one of the nicest castles I have seen on the channel. You can clearly see the love and commitment, poured into this very special place! Would love to visit some day.
Thank you for the tour... it was lovely. What a dream place to live. So nice to be restored and loved again... I love that the stable is being used as a Stable... such a beautiful horse.
bravo .une famille qui devrait recevoir la légion d honneur😀
She knows her subject so well!!! So excellently done!! So wonderful to see a young person have so much passion for the place. She covered everything so well, the wealth of knowledge she has is incredible! I love the horse. So beautiful. Horses and animals would have always present as they had no cars.
The history is fascinating. Such a shame when people loot and destroy these places with graffiti and breakage. Watching chateaus and historical homes restorations on YT is very new for me, but I so appreciate seeing how people so courageously undertake these projects with love, passion, and commitment. Thank you for the tour!
What an amazing tour. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful home with us. You have done an incredible job.
Thank you for the tour! Beautiful castle.
Enjoyed this video very much. Lovely lady she cares and knows what she is talking about.
Fascinated by these old buildings and the people who take them on. Wish I was 30-40 years younger would love to volunteer. Your discussion of its history really made this video thank you
What a sensational project! The history and the ambience is magical and the guided tour was informative and accessible. The owners must be justifiably proud and daughter Alice has a terrific on-camera personality and presentation style - confident without arrogance, fun anecdotes but grounded with history and pure love of the environment. The stables and the inhabitants of all sorts of four-legged friends are very fortunate indeed. This was a tour that far exceeds many online. Bravo and thanks!
If I'm not mistaken this video was made sometime before 2022. Alice Guyot speaks of the reopening and how they hope to have particular areas finished. It would be lovely to have an UPDATED video to see what has been completed. Thank you for sharing The Chateau de Bridoire a Historical castle, in the stunning Dordogne.
Thank you for your comment Anita. Video shooted in May 2022. Why not doing an update this year. We May be 😊
So inspiring! Alice is a delightful and polished tour guide-- the original story of the chateau is hard to fathom, with absentee owners and the state coming in to reclaim the historic structure. It is truly special to imagine a crowd of volunteers doing all that hard, precise work to restore the rooms after decades of vandalism. Horses! Would be great to see a video using the horses ... with the riders in historic garb?? Merci beaucoup for this free and wonderful video!
Now THIS is a Chateau.
It has been beautifully furnished! Really takes you back in time. What an awesome place to live in. Great that it is in the hands of a native, French.
Fantastic tour. So happy to see that someone is willing to restore such a beautiful chateau. And I love that you have a fun side with the Alice in Wonderland theme. Well done.
Quel travail colossale !!! je suis impressionné !!! Félicitaion!!!!
wow, what a great tour! lovely to see that there are so many people out there working hard to keep these amazing buildings alive! and Alice is wonderful in presenting the castle!
so cute and smart, good job!
Wonderful tour of a beautiful property. Alice gave a great tour and a lovely young lady too! Love the stables with the gorgeous horses. Quite a labor of love.
Loved your visit through your beautiful castle You are also beautiful and your hair is wonderful... what a great journey for you and your family From Australia ❤
Mais ils sont combien dans cette famille 😅 Sacré travail cette restauration ! Bravo à eux
J'ai compté 8 membres de cette désormais fameuse et méritante famille Guyot. Et 7 châteaux !
Great job in preserving a piece of French heritage. I worry at some stage the native French will have to retreat to those castles to preserve their culture.
This is very interesting. Back in the 1960's, my parents and I were invited to visit the chateau by the owner of Bridoire at the time, who was indeed a Swiss gentleman. He was looking at selling the property but would only sell to a member of the Knights Templars! In view of the history of the order which effectively disappeared during the earlier part of the XIVth century under the reign of Philip the Fair, it must have been a rather unsurmountable task, hence the sad period the property entered until it was rescued.
Excelente video, todos los espacios que mostró son muy interesantes y además está rodeado por un amplio entorno natural. Felicidades!!
Geweldig mooi dit moeten wij koesteren 😍🤩🤗
Superbe !
Merci beaucoup pour ns faire visiter votre chateau. Admirable travail de conservation. ❤
The attic is so beautiful. I would love to live up there and admire the craftsmanship and think of all the great carpenters that worked to build it.
Very beautyful castle and garden!
I love the kitty!
Fun fact: in the Northern Hemisphere, the remarkably unique latitude/longitude confluence point: 45°N 0°, where the Greenwich meridian and the 45th parallel north intersect. This point is situated in France, just 60 kilometres to the east of Bordeaux… so not far from Château de Bridoire..😜
For some reason this makes me think of the film Le Frisson des Vampires, which is one of my favorite Jean Rollin films. Especially the chapel. Thanks for posting.
Wow ..and thank you for an in formative tour. One of the best explained tours . Congratulations!
I'll go visit this lady!
A truly charming young woman! I would LOVE to visit this chateau! Sherry
Félicitations et bon courage pour la suite de vos travaux de rénovation de votre château ...☺️☺️☺️
I love the cat trying to steal the show. 😸
Wonderful tour ❤️ beautiful Chateau
This is very near to where I live and yes there are over 1000 chateaux in this region alone. Sadly this is not an isolated case of neglect and abandon as there are hundreds of chateaux rotting all over France, some are totally furnished and almost none of them are guarded.
Why aren’t they (the rich families) interested in owning a chateau? Where’s everyone with money? I don’t understand..
@@erict.35 Two guesses. One is that there are more chateaux than there are people who can afford to buy and maintain them. And two is property taxes or other legislation that discourages people from acquiring historic properties.
@@dryden0100 there aren’t people who can afford owning châteaux? You are saying there aren’t wealthy people? That’s nonsense. How does the lady in the video affords the maintenance of the château? Clearly it’s possible. So my question stands: Where are the rich people? Are they all in Dubai in their penthouses?
@@erict.35 The problem of keeping up country houses and castles is not exclusive to France. The proof is in the pudding as the saying goes. If owning and operating castles was so simple and inexpensive, they wouldn't be crumbling and abandoned everywhere. You say it's "possible" but that doesn't mean these owners aren't losing money. Do you think the rich want to invest their money in something that most likely will be a money pit? There are KZhead channels where wealthy owners explain how they spend years repairing a single castle before it can even be rented out.
@@dryden0100 are you rich? If you would be rich, would you want to spent time hiding in hideous penthouse in that monstrous city Dubai? In the middle of nowhere, in that climate? No, you wouldn’t. Instead of owning overpriced apartments you would want to a family mansion in France, a beautiful chateau with garden. In fact, owning and maintenance of a midsize chateau is probably significantly cheaper than investing in luxury penthouse. But more importantly, as billionaire you wouldn’t be able afford the costs of a chateau? Seriously? That’s nonsense. BS! So, where are those French billionaires? If there’s so many of them, where are they hiding?
Thank you. Lovely ❤
Wonderful castle 🏰. So glad it was restored. I would have gladly do the same.
Super cool 👍
Did you have many photographs of the interior to work with. Looks wonderful.
So incredible!!! We Americans go crazy for anything that is 200 years old. Europe is fantastic!
super et en plus elle est bien cute !!!!
Since I was young I've been bewildered as to how people loot and destroy random properties that they have no connection to, good or bad. Just one of those strange human things I have never understood, just like purposeful littering bewilders me. I work at a historical place with a similar story. Because it's in the United States, it's only 300 years old, but late 1990's the place was in such need of funds to keep it standing that no one person locally could provide, so after watching it decline, the concerned community stepped forward and formed a Foundation. This little rural community fought hard to get the building the recognition it needed, and fast forward to present times you only have to visit to see they succeeded admirably. Everyday every staff member there does their part to keep the flow going, along with a still-very-involved community. Well done on this community and family pouring their hearts into saving what is obviously a very valued piece of local and French history!
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Parabéns linda Alice,vc e seus pais são pessoas abençoadas por terem esse amor pelo antigo e pela história que vem junto ! Tenho ideia de fazer uma campanha para mais gente adquirir CASTELOS por toda a EUROPA e torna-los vivos novamente ,em breve estarei visitando seu CHATEAU DE BRIDOIRE ! Terei á honra de conhecer este adorável lugar com tantas histórias !Beijos e abraços fraternos ! Aqui Brasil, moro no estado do Rio Grande do Sul,fronteira com a Argentina e Uruguai !
j'admire et remercie beaucoup toutes ces personnes qui sauvent ces chateaux magnifiques , je regarde beaucoup d'urbex et c'est à chaque fois un créve-coeur de voir ce patrimoine merveilleux disparaitre, il ne sera plus temps de pleurer quand tout sera perdu, l'état et les communes devraient avoir une obligation de mettre hors air et eau (toitures et fenetres) les chateaux à l'abandon... nos impots seraient plus judicieusement utilisés que sur d'hideux sens giratoires ou des hangars affreux qui ne servent à personne dans toutes les communes de France
bonjour magnifique et merci beaucoup de nous raconter l'histoire de ce château , vos parents et vous avez du mérite de sauver ce patrimoine , heureusement , il y a encore de nos jours , des gens comme vos parents et vous même , pour préserver ce patrimoine , et des bénévoles , pour vous y aider . Je n'ai jamais compris, et ne comprendrai jamais , pourquoi casser et faire des graffiti ça , ça me dépasse , je met ça sur le compte de la jalousie . pour moi qui adore jouer aux échecs , j'ai trouvé le jeu extérieur génial , merci de de nous avoir montré ce merveilleux château bien cordialement
Bravo Alice, on sent votre implication et votre énergie contagieuses, c'est pas comme si ça tenait de famille 😁
Beautiful, to bad I don't speak French and couldn't keep up to understand her. 😢
🙌🎥🤩🏰 🤗🇺🇸
i wonder if the original builders ever thought or prepared for a complete fiber internet installation..
Have seen pictures of this Chateau stating it was abandoned, but apparently no longer. @12:18 the arch on the right side of the Keystone is misshapen, missing mortar and needs repair, these style of arches can fail suddenly if one arch becomes unsymmetrical.
It's just too hard to try to read that tiny print so quickly. Can't see the video due to trying to read and keep up wirh the print. She could at least gargle slower..
Kitchen best part
This is no longer a chateau but a farm.
Lol I like how she references Urbex and "ruin porn" 😂 She's not wrong.
Oh j aimerais une salade perigordine.
Well done the Guyot family! - but I do wish that Alice would speak more slowly. I had to keep stopping the video to understand what she was saying, and what she was showing us. Also a shame that she chose to film the video whilst they had the Easter nonsense going on, designed to attract local French visitors with kids - not interested in the restoration project, or the historical backround of the chateau. It is, surely, most unusual for the French State to take a dilapidated property out of private ownership; and then re-sell it to someone else. There are hundreds of old properties in France that could benefit from this semi-rescue approach. [Bravo à la famille Guyot ! - mais je souhaiterais qu'Alice parle plus lentement. J'ai dû arrêter la vidéo pour comprendre ce qu'elle disait et ce qu'elle nous montrait. Il est également dommage qu'elle ait choisi de filmer la vidéo pendant la période des festivités de Pâques, destinées à attirer les visiteurs français locaux avec leurs enfants - qui ne sont pas intéressés par le projet de restauration ou par le contexte historique du château. Il est tout à fait inhabituel que l'État français prenne une propriété délabrée et la revende à quelqu'un d'autre. Il y a des centaines de propriétés anciennes en France qui pourraient bénéficier de cette approche de semi-sauvetage].
Thank you for your comment. This video was originally filmed for our French channel and was not intended to be translated in English. With her speaking flow for sure it’s not easy to follow in English, but we thought somehow it could be useful for some of you guys. About Easter: this is the life of the chateau, there are often animation, decoration etc we also want to show this on screen because this is the real life of the chateau. No more French translated version here on this channel. Only with audio in English from now on (not related to your comment - it’s what we decided few months ago)
at some p oint th cellar was a prison :O
2:47 Here you can see the real owner of the castle, lying in the aisle .
With a lot of money at any age, anyone can own a castle.
Not with a lot of money, we have more castle than towns in France, so they are thousands of "cheap" (less than 500 000) castle. So to own one is easy. To restore and keep one is however extremly hard.
You can't afford housing in America and here this lady owns a castle 🏰🏯 at 27!!
To buy a castle is not that difficult in France, some are for sale like for 300 000 euros, but to restore and maintain them, this is the very difficult and expensive part.
@@SuperLn1991 better to rent a room in one that is already restored then. But first I gotta win the Lottery
Crap, I am in my 40s I am buying a Chateau in France too!
Soaring Eagle you can handle
😻 I’m into her. Wow.
It's attitude anythingsa
She has a strange accent. She speaks French but its very strange.
un urbex = un exploitation urbaine. Le solivage = putting planks ("joists") across beams to create a floor or ceiling. (le sol = the floor).
Чому немає.переводу.Украіна.
Lovely castle but what's with all the cheap Chinese plastic dangling down all over?
Une des présentations les plus rasoires qui soient! Tout le monde ne s'improvise pas guide... Quel dommage pour un lieu qui semble intéressant!
Прекрасный замок и красивая природа. Горе реставраторы, мерзкие инсталляции с претензией на оригинальность. Даже не досмотрела видео до конца.
lt looks great but its not in English.
I enjoyed seeing a cat. Was there anything else in the video?
I know someone who would love viewing all that copper 18:43 @Seans_World