The Real Deal

I hate it when I am not taken seriously. This appears to be the case with Alex Cippola and Jill Hartz. I sent these women a post on Virginia Hambley, who is mistakenly given a different father. And, prey-tell, what is in that cafe menu I am holding? My fiance is reading the document I carried inside, and…… presented it to her.

Virginia has slept in this castle – and others!

The family of La Tour-Landry and, later, the Maillé de La Tour-Landry, held the lands of Bourmont from the 14th century. Through an alliance in 1691 between Marie-Hélène de Maillé de La Tour-Landry (1670-1752) and Marie-Henry, Count of Ghaisne (1662-1710), it passed to the family of Ghaisne de Bourmont, who still own it.^[2]

In 1771, the Château de Bourmont was the birthplace of Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont, architect of the French conquest of Algeria in…