Private Tour of Chateau du Lude, with its Owner | A Rare Great Loire Valley Castle Still Inhabited

🌟 Join us on an exclusive tour of Château du Lude, one of the last great inhabited castles in the Loire Valley, led by its owner, Barbara de Nicolaÿ. 🌟
Nestled in the picturesque Loire Valley (Sarthe Department), Château du Lude stands as a testament to centuries of French history and architectural grandeur. In this special video, Barbara de Nicolaÿ, the château's owner, invites us on a unique journey through its majestic halls and hidden treasures.
🔍 What You'll See:
Grand Rooms: Explore the beautifully preserved rooms open to the public, adorned with exquisite art and furnishings reflecting the château’s rich legacy.
Secret Rooms: Gain rare access to private areas rarely seen by visitors, including secret rooms and hidden corridors that tell untold stories of the château.
Historical Insights: Learn fascinating details about the château's history, architecture, and the personal anecdotes from Barbara de Nicolaÿ's family heritage.
Architecture and Gardens: Discover the château from outside with its extraordinary facades (all different), park, garden and terrace.
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[@SoChateauxTV]

If you prefer, you can watch the original French version with subtitles : kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWOYhZiQlpuZm7c

[@rayn8740]

This is her second video tour of the Château that I've seen. Both have been thorough and highly informative. Her knowledge of the Château and the surrounding gardens is quite impressive. The Château is magnificent, inside and out. How fantastic that it's still inhabited and lovingly maintained by her family. Merci, Madame! Merci beaucoup!

[@ckothary]

Incredible and the way Madame Barbara Nicolay explains everything is superb Bravo Madame

[@ckothary]

Thank you

[@chemokiki]

Thank you for this translation! I am starting to become obsessive about the French chateau life, buying and reading books and subscribing to many KZbin channels about it. The Chateau de Lude is magnificent and at the top of my visit ASAP list! Madame de Nicolay is such a brilliant wealth of knowledge. Merci encore pour cette belle visite.

[@Tony-InLosAngeles]

The French versions have closed captioning in English

[@anitasujiivana4553]

What a very lovely host. I can feel her admiration and deep love for this beautiful and extraordinary chateau. Her knowingness of the people who worked on the chateau is quite impressive. Her generosity in showing us rooms and spaces not normally on tour is very much appreciated. 💝💝💝

[@thefrenchgardener1865]

Merci beaucoup! A wonderful tour of a real treasure of France. The family Nicolette should be very proud of the dedication and hard work to restore and maintain such a beautiful jewel.

[@smiley9987]

😳 It's true that every time I discover a chateau thanks to you,I am impressed as they are all fantastic,but this time I am genuinely Lost for words! It's absolutely incredible. Majestic. I was watching with open mouth from start to end. I stopped,I zoomed different parts staring at details. Every cm of the chateau is extraordinary. The styles,details,those warm colours,the systems that she is explaining in different parts,the history...the library-O my God...the linen room,the dining room used every day,the bedrooms,the kitchen/ one of my favourite parts in every chateau/,those stunning stairs,floors,ceilings,original furnitures with the spirit of old times. The attention to detail and ornaments is beyond incredible. I am so impressed, I can't even organise my thoughts. It's so incredible to be able to see rooms and private rooms, that are usually not open for public,or just very rare as it was said. Those old clothes/dresses,the uniforms with colors of the chateaux are so rare to see. Countess Barbara de Nicolaÿ is remarkable! It was very generous of her, to open the doors of certain parts of the castle for us to see. Thank you,So Chateaux, for this amazing episode. From today, one of my dreams/plans is to visit Chateau du Lude!

[@SoChateauxTV]

Thank you very much for your comment 🙏 Glad you appreciated this episode! 😊

[@smiley9987]

@@SoChateauxTV 😊👍

[@French-Kiss24]

This chateau is unbelievably beautiful. Thank you so much for this tour. I will surely visit on my next visit to France.

[@ODDwayne1]

This is a SPECIAL place. Top notch restoration. The architecture itself is immaculate. The decor is perfection. Such wonderful and careful work. Thank you.

[@ggcheesecake547]

Thank you for the English version. This chateau is fantastic. I enjoyed learning its history. The tour was informative and well-organized.

[@myrnamcmillan4755]

This is just a wonderful journey back in time ,thank you.

[@leighmackay7486]

Breathtaking in its enormity and history. Thanks for this opportunity to see inside. 🎉

[@lisafox2073]

Absolutely Grand with alot of history preserved, Thank you! Very much enjoyed ❤

[@nopeno6514]

Very impressive to watch my ancestors legacy. Imagine doing all these without computers, phones or power tools. It's more than talent but a divine inspiration. The true value of history and its preservation is to remind us that the human mind and spirit have no limits. 😮

[@HaiteLibbies]

Beautiful ❤ and this program is filled with an abundance of interesting facts and stories

[@eejster0357]

My mouth to the floor. Perfect hostess for this video. Thank you for opening your doors to the public. Would love to visit when i am back in the area. Amazing Chateau.

[@laurieknight5185]

Absolutely breath taking! Thank you for sharing this! ❤️

[@ginatees3262]

Magnificent building and interiors. Thank you for sharing.

[@janiekcarney5482]

Thank you for this wonderful video!! First class.

[@borge2014]

Marvelous rooms, especially the Renaissance ones, and those ornate doors , wow. Loved this episode.

[@susannekalejaiye4351]

marvellous! so much in tact and represented here, so beautifully presented and explained too. Thank you for making this tour possible

[@alexanderscholz8855]

Super nice 👍‼️ It is so good to see that real life is inside and make it a Home with full of life. Only the Work never ends. 👍

[@annekunze5972]

Very beautiful home. I just love it!

[@user-ff5fx3ye4y]

Lovely, and wonderful that Madame Nicolay shared her extensive knowledge of her massive home. Thank you.

[@IVWOR]

Дуже красиве шато. Дякую вам за екскурсію ❤️

Thank you for preserving history.

[@daisymoses6812]

My favorite part of the tour was Eduoard Andre and his Gravity-pressured watering system which not only provided garden irrigation but also supplies the kitchen and the laundry cistern. FASCINATING. Mme Barbara de Nicolay is so well-rounded in her knowledge and so generous to share all the history -- Thank you so much !

[@daisymoses6812]

And now I will go to see the tour again, in French !

[@JSTXRPXLMULE]

I enjoyed you Ma'am just as much as the chateau and the tour... You're such a beautiful lovely person thank you so much for sharing your home with all of us..!

[@brendafulmernickel1218]

Thank You For Sharing ! It definitely added an element of care, inspirational conveyed from your family's heritage! Magnificent!!

[@BernardDauphinais]

So beautiful!

[@tricial4330]

What a fantastic time capsule! Amazing! Thank you for a fabulous tour!

[@juliam9214]

Very beautiful and interesting. Your family has done a great job for future generations. I hope they appreciate. 😊😊

[@SirAdamMeek]

Amazing!

[@irinagrinyova7533]

Thank you so much for the translation❤

[@hollykeller1545]

This was so perfect! Loved it!👏🏻👏🏻

[@michaelwieneke1992]

What a wonderful tour of La Lude. We were able to tour this beautiful chateau last August so it was enjoyable to see the rooms we saw in person, as well as to see the rooms that were not included in the tour that day.

[@user-im8sx6zx5s]

Waouh!Belle histoire et très beau château❤(Miqueias de Osvaldo Cruz-SP-Brasil)

[@davewesley11]

Thank you soo much for showing us round .. One word magnificent.

[@mommabahre6017]

The room with all the paintings is just a fancy "alone time" room. Cause, that's what my "leave me alone" room looks like in my head.

[@katharinatrub1338]

What a splendid Chateau! Inside out! Chimney mantels, parquet floors, Master Woodwork! Furniture, elaborate Dormer Windows and Chimneys, and much, much more! What a heartfelt warm and comfortable dining room! and to know you still use this Kitchen for making preservings! What a happy family gathering this must be every summer! How amazing, a Kiddneushaped Table, Never seen this before and am touched to know the WHY of this shape! Ohh I can feel, you must love your Chateau very much! Now I d'have a little question, how come that Antoine Roy (so says the speaker),.... "unfortunately died without a descendent", and then later says had "his daughter marry Marquis de Talouette" ? Hm... did I must have missed out on some part? Thank you so much for your Video!

[@shlimbu224]

This video is an absolute gem!

[@jensvonbrasch1466]

Very interesting and valuable. Thanks so much.

[@ghassang2074]

محتوى قيم ومميز لهذه الماده المرئيه اتمنى لهذه القناه مزيد من النجاح والتوفيق والتميز المستمر ملاحظه ارجو اخذها وايضا العمل على اضافتها وهي اضافه اللغه العربيه ضمن الترجمه المتاحه شكرا لكم مره اخرى متابع لكم من المملكه العربيه السعوديه

[@forward_ever_ever2595]

I salute you madam. A wonderful tour. You're A class in your presentation in every aspect....in depth knowledge with a seamless flow in presentation!.

[@IsholaXO6]

Marveled with her amazing demonstrations

[@albertalcoser9485]

Just beautiful, I love that I would love to visit some day.💗😊

[@tonifish3879]

I thought she was an art historian at first, not the lady of the house! She was so knowledgeable and elegant

[@lsmith6840]

It's beautiful thank you.

[@Monitschka]

🤗 I will redo it in French. Listening to Madame the owner in her mother language must be delicate. 🥰

[@MsMsmak]

Its gigantic. I don't like such big empty (of people)places but this is fantastic.

[@archiebald4717]

Incredible!

[@user-kq8jl5bf8u]

Красота !!!!

[@albertalcoser9485]

Beautiful ❤️

[@Tony-InLosAngeles]

Thank you

[@user-nz6bk7lf8u]

After uniting everything. A universal cultural project could be taking an area we know will never be destroyed until the world is. Then making the most indestructible and preservable replica of the cultural beatuy of the world. Or each peoples in each area preserved for their reality and shelter cultural center. Then make areas outside of those pinnacles almost like a museum of cultural art through the societies. Cool stuff French are a crazy beautiful people.

[@user-je8no8xq4p]

fascinating thank you maam

[@larrywave]

Nice 👌

[@liliafernanda2408]

Lindo lugar❤❤❤

[@theresemosa8500]

Merci

[@normanbonk8064]

❤❤❤

[@user-pq8vd2qv1m]

城堡內的裝飾是多麽的華麗和令人嘆爲觀止！簡直是法國的瑰寶！很想知道城堡很久以前是 私人建造的嗎

[@farmkid99362]

That spider gives me major anxiety. It looked huge!

[@daghusebye5041]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🏆

[@2togo53]

It's lovely..... but just imagine the housework

[@massimilianodicastro2186]

This castle is something different

[@mascottie]

Do you know how Antoni from Chateau de Dampierre is doing? He has not posted a new video in several months.

[@jrd3523]

If you've read the Memoires of the Duc de Saint-Simon, you'll know that the Duc de Bouillon was not "de La Tour d'Auvergne", but only de La Tour. The family sued during the reign of Louis XIV and lost. They were issued to minor nobility from the Nord of France.

[@ted1091]

It appears that the chateau remained in the hands of nobility through and after the revolution. Can you explain how this happened? Thank you

[@floydiandreamscapes5145]

I don't believe it was an angel stroking the visitor at the entery

[@php1980]

it is good to be rich and hold on to your head and money

[@draganasaicic3897]

Is Nikolay a Russian family? It would be interesting to hear their family history, as well as how the Marquis de Talhouet family managed to survive the French Revolution?!

[@myopictopics7258]

It is interesting that Joseph Duvelaer’s Chinese wife was mentioned, but not her name. Even searching the internet her name seems to be lost to time.

[@CliftonBowers-pc2xu]

Seen the oringal angel ...