What do French Paysans think of the Brits taking on ‘money pit’ renovations. A personal experience

Sophie Duncan
6 min readNov 28, 2020

or, ‘What will the paysans think of your chateau rescue shenanigans’

These tales from France are inspired by 22 years restoring a sandstone Renaissance castle in the Aude department in south west France and then meeting others with the same chateau rescueing bug all over France, after appearing on the channel 4 first season of Escape to the Chateau DIY..

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Sophie Duncan

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