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THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE CASTLE OF BALINCOURT (northern France)

Dopo essermi dannata ed affaticata per trovare la foto di questo castello, voilà, ieri sera esce fuori mentre sfoglio una rivista dal titolo "La Provincia Sannita" del 2010. Ormai non ci pensavo più...
He really incredible history of the castle of Balincourt in the village of Arronville, north of France.

At first it belonged to Blanche Delacroix, a lover and then wife morganatic (ie without the right to inheritance or title) of King Leopold II of Belgium . It had become the lover only 16 years old, and he was more than 50 more than her. Leopold II gift 'the castle to his mistress and then, Leopold died, the manor was bought ato world's richest man, Sir Basil Zaharoff , born in Istanbul on the Jewish poor. He sold the submarines of all nations at war. Zaharoff gave it to his mistress Maria del Pilar , English noblewoman, wife of Francesco de Bourbon, a cousin of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Francis has long showed signs of mental imbalance and Maria del Pilar could not divorce because the crown would never have allowed. The relationship with Zaharoff lasted throughout the life ebb and and Monte Carlo as a backdrop.

Maria del Pilar commissioned 'the castle grounds to Raffaele Mainella, who was born in Benevento in 1856 and died in 1941 at the Venice Lido. For ten long years, the artist departed from Venice in the summer and went in working at the castle. In 1924, Maria del Pilar's husband dies, and so, after 34 years of clandestine love affair, she wed with Basil Zaharoff. After just eighteen months of marriage she died of septicemia. Zaharoff Mainella then asked to complete the layout of the park according to the wishes of his wife, even if man does not make you more Chorus Convection in the years to come. Today his body rests in this park, close to that of his wife. On this castle and the work performed by Mainella was never published anything. Mainella When completed it was seventy years old. He died April 27, 1941, at age 85.

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