‘Excited’ commoners who participated in a crowd-funding initiative attended a Christmas party on the grounds of the French castle they now own
LES TROIS-MOUTIERS, France - For most of the year, Willy Nanlohij, a 62-year-old retired bank worker, lives with his wife Hilda in a comfortable yet unremarkable home in the Dutch city of Enschede.
Their dream comes with a few caveats: they share ownership with 25,000 people who joined an innovative crowd-funding campaign , and the chateau is an uninhabitable ruin. The Mothe Chandeniers chateau, 300 km south-west of Paris, is steeped in a history of wealth and privilege.In 1654, Marquis Francois II transformed it into a lavish home with gardens and parks. Paris entrepreneur Francois Hennecart took it over in 1809 and restored it, and Baron Edgard Lejeune and his wife Marie Ardoin later transformed it into a neo-gothic structure.
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