The UNTOLD Stories of the Chateau And The French REVOLUTION 300 Years Ago
Bonjour à tous, After the Family open the sealed door to the cellar, we take a closer look and it leads them on to think about the chateaux past and what role it may have played during the Bloody Revolution. Ash talks us through the chateaux previous owners with links to louis XVI and Napoleon I, but how did it end and which side did he fight for?
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I personally love history and found it fascinating the people who owed this chaeutea. Please have more blogs on this subject.
Thanks Lynne 🥰🥰
Ash, you are the consummate story teller. It is not a common ability, but you have it in spades. Thanks for the story you’re telling us today. Please feel free to make another 60, or so, other episodes of the history behind La Lacelle. I’ll watch every single episode.
Thanks Diana 🥰🥰
And now your family has joined the line of people that have owned the chateau, you are just as amazing as the rest of them. Probably the most important ones that are saving the chateau.
Thank you 🙏 😊
Great job on telling a good history story. The delight on Ashes face telling it, shows how much he loves it.❤
More please!!!! My gosh Ash, that started my day with so much joy! You are a natural story teller. I admit I sometimes wander when I attempt to listen to long stories about history, but you kept me on point throughout. Thank you so much!
Terry up to his tricks again with the spooky spectre in the basement :) Love the history of the chateau xx
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yeah the face and the shadow in the foyer.
Glad I’m not the only one who saw it!
I saw it too! I kept rewinding to see if my eyes were tricking me.
Ash, you do such a good job of presentation. Most of us have trouble keeping that flow going. I am wowed. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Gretchen 🥰🥰
Ash, fabulous story telling! It's great that the history of the Chateau is being shared.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🥰🥰
Ash, thank you for so eloquently sharing some of the history of LaLacelle and the fascinating characters that shaped her. I’m sure future generations will look back in amazement at the family who brought her back to life in the early 21st century!
A great narration of the history of your chateau! And now (YOU) will be added to the history of the renovation for generations to come! Perfect!!!
Thanks Dale 🥰🥰🥰
P for Pefect!
Indeed, more please😮😊
Absolutely fascinating Ash, all of you are so brave in taking on such a project and look where you are now, part of Lalacelle’s story, bringing her beauty back to life 😊
OMG, Ash! I love ❤history anyway, but the stories of previous owners, what they did to the Chateau mane their lives is so interesting. Please consider doing another episode of the history of the Chateau every once in a while. It’s fascinating.
Thank you Wendy 🙏 😊
Be happy to hear about more owners. The history is as fascinating as the work you're doing to bring her back to life.
Thank you 🙏 😊
You let the traitor out of his cellar! 🤣
Haha. 😜
This Episode just made your channel catapult to another level. Ash this was so exciting and wonderful to hear that your “ lady” in the woods is 300 yrs young! And all the amazing hard work you are all doing to bring her back to life , truly has such great meaning and history. You and your family are Making your Own History by bringing this Chateau back to its Glory. Could not have chosen better caregivers! Can’t wait for parts 2,3,4……
Ash I love your enthusiasm of the chateau's history. Your eyes light up and your story telling is so captivating. Thank you.
The part about the eyebrows was in relation to the color; light brown hair and eyebrows. Loved hearing the history today look forward to more in the future!
Ash! That was fantastic! Your face gets so animated when you speak, you could be talking about the electric bill and it would be interesting! 🥰. The history of the Chateau is so precious and anything you find out, you know we all want to hear.
As a history buff, I really enjoyed watching this vlog! Pretty cool information!
Thanks Kim 🥰
I think a book written on the chateau history is in order. Your excitement about its history is contagious. It's fascinating to hear of the lives that have passed thru your chateau over the centuries.
Loved it and loved learning a bit more about the history of the chateau. Yes please, keep them Coming. And ash, what a superb story teller you are. Well done! Xxx
Definitely want to hear more.
Thank you 🙏 ☺️
So very interesting!!! Thank you for sharing the chateau’s history. 🥰🙏❤️🙏🏰🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Thanks Kerry-Lynn 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Absolutely fascinating history. I thoroughly enjoyed Ash's presentation on two of the past owners. I really believe that knowing the history of the chateau adds to its charm and importance. Can't wait to hear more.🏰❤
Glad you enjoyed it! 🥰🥰
All this history would be amazing to put into a book(s) for your guests to enjoy. Pictures of the restoration you've done are part of the continuing story of the Chateau.
Great to hear of the past lives of the chateau. You both are it's next generation owners.
I'm with you, Ash. I think that corner of the dining room is a stairway as well. They look about the same size, too.
Thank you 🙏 ☺️
I love Malamutes. Beautiful dogs.
Loved hearing about the history! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it Enny 🥰
Fabulous narration, would be even more stunning if you put all this together into a book, and carrying it forward noting your own history, PICTURES, bits of wallpapers in the rooms etc etc. Including pictures of your renovations and discoveries! For future generations. Truely AMAZING. Would love to hear MORE XX❤
This is a wonderful idea! I truly hope they do! ❤
You're a great storyteller Ash. Very interesting and informative. I can only imagine how your ownership of the chateau feels even more special.
Thank you so much! 🥰
Love the history of the chateau and am looking forward to hearing more.😀👍🏻
Thank you 🙏 ☺️
That was such a break in your videos. Love history! Great some of the surroundings make sence now. Add your family's journey to the history. 😃👍🇦🇺
I really love a bit of history! When you opened the cellar door and the ghostly face appeared made me jump. But I love that sort of thing. Ashley, the way you enthuse over the information you’ve been given, draws us in and takes us back to those times. Magnificent! Can’t wait to hear more. ❤
Thank you Carolyne 🙏 😊
WOW Ash! What a treasure trove of history and information about the chateau! Now you, Terry, Tracy and Jonathan are part of the chateau’s history! ❤
Et l’histoire se poursuit avec vous et votre talent, courage et détermination. Bravo et merci pour ce Moment bien agréable. J’attends la suite du prochain épisode ! 😉 Nathalie
More history, please! And can you show the exquisite panelling? How wonderful that you are now part of the amazing history of LaLacalle!!!
History increases the value we all share with you on your journey 🙏🏻
Thank you 🙏 ☺️
What a gift. MORE PLEASE! Knowledge ALWAYS makes a big difference.
I love that the history is coming out. I love knowing the people, history and all the personal happenings around this awesome place. Envious that you all are restoring, rebuilding this amazing place and returning it to a home.
These are FABULOUS stories and histories!
Thanks Melanie 🥰
I really think that this year, you ought to renovate/refurbish those two wrought iron "over hangs" on either side of that entrance, get them scrubbed off, cleaned up and painted and install the panels on it above....it will look so great when those are FINALLY done..and they also shield people from the elements when coming and going in and out! To know the history of your Chateau is amazing and I hope you keep uncovering even more!
Thank you 🙏 ☺️
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about the history of this beautiful chateau and would love to hear more about it. Thank you for going to all this trouble to share this with us.
More to come! 🥰🥰
The French Riviera was already a well-known health tourism destination by the 1800s for lung & breathing disorders, but Menton became synonymous with TB recuperation after a British doctor wrote several papers & a book in the 1880s specifically about it being the perfect place to recuperate from tuberculosis. If you look at the records of the deaths of the 2 previous chateau owners who died in Menton they will probably mention TB or something similar (I only know about this as my PhD was on place-related health & wellbeing, and I remember reading about this, albeit many years ago!).
Thank you so much for the info 🥰🥰🥰
Ah I had that thought and have just suggested in a comment! Glad I was right. Thanks for the info.
I think it might have been called consumption? TB?
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
As incredible at your tireless restorations are, this research on the history and former owners of Lalacelle completes the story of your wonderful property. Thank you for all your efforts and sharing the stories with us.
The history took the château in a wonderful direction and it's not just a big house its a house of historical proportion and brought it a Iive.
Thanks Judy 🥰
What an amazing history has Lalacelle....Versailles, Napoleon and all...😮😮😮thanks Lucy for all the 'digging' and thank you Ash and Terry for the sharing!
This is so fascinating. Although when Ash was showing the empty stairwell in the dark, did anyone else see a face? Maybe I am getting old. Great job guys.
Ash, you did a wonderful job of telling the story but it would have been pretty cool to link in the past video where it showed you guys finding the burnt areas and also linking in where you were talking about the pretty wall and area with the stairway that is no longer there. I love hearing the history and by all means keep going.
You really should have that info made into a book. It would be great to have that available for your guests to purchase. Very interesting info. Thanks for sharing it w us.
I love the genealogy of the Chateau and now you are part of that history. Ash, you are a wonderful storyteller! There are probably pictures/drawings/photos in some Archive of the former owners and it would be lovely to have them all represented in a gallery inside Lalacelle.
Thank you so much! 🥰🥰
It is always good to know the history of the chateau who lived there and how old the chateau is , and what you told us is fantastic so thanks for sharing that information it is wonderful 👌👌🐕🐈⬛🥀🌼🌼🏵🌹
Thanks Hillie 🥰🥰
That is amazing information! Thanks to all who helped research and provide it to LaLacelle.❤ I love that the current owners want to know the history, respect the structure and the stages it went through, and are renovating carefully. Not many people have the renaissance skills of Ash, Tracy and Terry. Nor are there many able and dedicated to spending every day working on such an exciting project. Thank you for sharing your amazing dream with us!
Thank you so much 🥰🥰🥰
I love history! It was very exciting to hear Ashley tell us the history of the chateau.
History is my jam so this content is too. France has lost track of an astonishing amount of both its pre-Revolutionary history and in more recent times so I applaud any attempt to reconnect with the past history of the building and the people .
Yes, like the bit of history. Great outline Ash.
Ash is a great story teller
Thanks John 🥰🥰🥰
Fascinating! I would love to hear more of the history!
Thank you 🙏 ☺️
Congratulaion to the Chateau's 300th Birthday 🎉👍🏼
Hello Ash, that was just wonderful. I was a history major at university, so please do more on the history side of things, i absolutely loved it. Also, Terry, your lighting is gorgeous. Ash, you are so natural in talking to camera. I am awful and so shy! You should do more presenting. You are a real pro. Well done, gentlemen, well done! Now, my request is, can you please show us what the grand salon would have looked like with that panneling Ash is talking about? I would love to see it!
Love hearing about the history!
Thank you 🙏 ☺️
I have to admit Ash you could be talking about paint dry and I would listen, soothing voice....this was very interesting...300 years old...lovely to believe it will now be there in another 300 years....now what about ghosts
Thanks Diane 🥰🥰🥰
I agree. He does have a soothing voice to listen to. My two dachshunds are snoozing!
Amazing the details that you gave unearthed. Thank goodness Rene Charles had eyebrows! .
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So nice to get some of the history of the chateau. Your family is such a blessing to this property and community. ✌🏻❤️🙏🏻
I loved this! I can't wait to find out more about your incredible Chateau!
Yay, thank you! 🥰
LOVE this! It makes Lalacelle more than just a building that you are lovingly restoring. It gives us its’ character and makes the knowing and watching more personal.
Thanks Kathy 🥰🥰
Hearing the history of the chateau is enjoyable. Hope you do more and maybe have a timeline chart. You missed an opportunity by not showing the fragment of the grande salon's original paneling..
Thanks John 🥰🥰
Very interesting to find information that pieces together the chateaux's history.
Glad you enjoyed it Terry 🥰
Ash, I absolutely loved the video. It's a wonderful idea, to break things up by doing an occasional vlog where you just share more of the history of your enchanting chateau. Thumbs up!
Ashley you are marvellous at telling us about the chateau and explaining in detail 👍, so so interesting can not wait for the next chapter it's lovely to hear you so excited telling us, your good at this. Love and hugs to you all 🫂🫂take care Jones family. XXX
Thank you so much Jean 🥰
I loved this episode, as I love history and the people involved in the past and the legacy they left behind. For me this episode is in the top ten, thank you.
Thanks Susan 🥰
Ash, such an amazing story concerning the Chateau. What a fascinating life the owners lived. It's great to understand more about the Chateau and the surrounding lands. Thanks for taking us to another place in time. Kathy USA 🇺🇸
This is amazing!!! Yes please keep it coming..love history❤
Thank you 🙏 😊
What an interesting episode this evening. Ashley, your enthusiasm for the subject is infectious. I love to learn about things that have happened in our homes. I've got documentation about the people who owned our 1875 home, including the German Jewish doctor who escaped Nazi Germany, and went on to be the town mayor. Love as always from County Durham xxx ❤
Wow. That’s amazing. Thanks Glenys 🥰🥰🥰
How amazing xx
All of this was very interesting. Ash, you presented it very well. I definitely would love to hear more. Your names are also now recorded as owners. You have all resurrected this chateau from the derelict ruins it once was to a place of awe and glory.❤
I absolutely loved your story today, some amazing facts. Also, great job on the narration Ash, well done. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼I would love to hear more stories about the history of the château! Tracy
I love hearing some of the history of the Chateau and the enthusiasm and excitement in your voice as you told it. Now your story is becoming part of its history. The story of the wonderful family that brought it back to life and restored it to such beauty with love and respect for its history.
I loved hearing more about the Chateau. It feels like a natural part of your vlog and I would love to see further episodes on the Chateau history.
no mention of the ghostly face peering up the stairs at you or the lady ghost gliding across the hall in front of stairs?
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And did you see the woman's silhouette on min 11: 30??
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I saw that too
I saw the face too
Ash, thank you so much for this vlog. I love history and particularly this period. The peninsular wars with France and late Georgian timeframe. Also, could I just add that you are a natural and brilliant narrator. More please!!
Thank you so much Jane 🥰🥰🥰
Wow Ash you did a fabulous job on telling the story and history of the château you really a natural at it, the more you uncover the more stories. Hopefully we will hear.🥰
OMG - what was the shadow skull face that appeared in the dark stairwell when Ashley first showed it???!! Very interesting vlog. Lots of research went in to it. Well done, team Lalacelle! ! Life was sure “interesting” (challenging) in the past. Looking forward to further discoveries!
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The history is so necessary to ground yourselves in the legacy of LaLacelle. I love hearing the history of the chateaus.
So interesting! It just makes the imagination run wild to think about what the chateau would have been like during those times in the past. How wonderful that you're looking to preserve that history and pay homage to it with your own renovations to the chateau!
More, yes. If you can ad more pictures that would only enhance your enthusiastic and informative tale. Love this. Thank you. I personally think no detail is too small to bring the story to life.
I liked...no loved learning about the history of your chateau please make some more videos to tell more of it's history. Great job Ash narrating!
With history now a days, it has slowly been taken away from us. This video has brought it back. It's amazing how this Chateau played an important role. For all men.
I love the history uncovered, imagining them going up and down stairs.
Ash, that story kept me wanting more. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
Great piece of history. But I’m all goosy having just seen the ghostly face emerging from the cellar followed by the gray lady walking across the hallway. Spooky!
I love history and the mark previous owners have left on the place.
Ash, nice history lesson. Lalacelle is more interesting than we knew.
I loved hearing all about the history of the chateau, you tell the story well Ash. More please 😄👍
What a history! You are very lucky to have all that information at your fingertips!
So interesting, Ash! Well done! Rikki Biermann, Pretoria, South Africa 🇿🇦
Ash thank you for the history of the chateaux , like you have wondered about the history and the people who have lived and died there, would love to here more of the history,
Ash..this was absolutely fantastic..I'm blown away..Great job presenting all this history.Can tell you're excited to share it with us..Thank you 🤗
Glad you enjoyed it! 🥰🥰
the first time i saw this video, i kept thinking i was seeing things, had to find this episode again to prove i wasn't insane and that i was the only one that saw the lady in the cellar, good job
I love learning the history of buildings. Where I live I often wonder about some of the old homes - who built them, what kind of work did they do, how much of an impact were they on society, etc. So please continue to share the chateau's history.
Fantastic i really enjoyed this Ash i love history and found it facinating yes me too that face down in the cellar made me jump 😂look forward to hearing more of the history of yr beautiful chateau ❤❤❤
Wow. 1724! That’s great guys. You must be so proud.