Article: THIS OLD HOUSE.

Looking for a fairy-tale castle? There are bargains to be had, but those who've bought a dream chateau find that they don't always live happily ever after.

The Chateau de Veauce, with its fierce battlements, perches atop a forested hillside in the Auvergne region of France as it has since 808, when the Emperor Charlemagne ordered a fortress built for his son Louis the Debonair. Or at least so says a brochure distributed by real-estate broker Hubert Complainville, who is trying to sell the place. The leaflet also provides the tantalizing information that Veauce was made a barony in the 14th century--meaning that every owner since, following some quasi-legitimate ...

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