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Castle life

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Chantale Anciaux

In Chimay, the castle that was about to fall into wrack and ruin was saved in thenick of time by a love story. The inhabitants of Chimay speak of a magic wand,of a fairy-tale princely marriage. For Françoise, the new princess, saved “their”castle. In a flamboyant decor of revisited traditions, the princes of Chimay todaywelcome contemporary musicians and artists in strange face-offs with theancestors and ghosts featured in the portraits.

Castle life reveals a surprising curiosity cabinet combining the old and thenew, the real and the fake, the beautiful and the kitsch, the natural and thedevised.

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