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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 426, 6 May 1937, Page 5

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Duke And Mrs Simpson Press Association—Copyright. Tours, May 5. A French Press photographer, Jean Monzon, who broke into the grounds of the Chateau de Cande and took pictures of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Simpson strolling arm in arm wag arrested and the camera plates were impounded. At the request of French authorities the French consul at Baltimore forwarded a copy of Mrs Simpson’s birth certificate, which states that she was born on July 19, 1896, at Monterey, Virginia.

i FAR FROM MADDING CROWD Chateau A Few Miles From Tours : The Chateau de Cande is one of I the score of fine chateaus whose like j is to be found nowhere elee in the I world. It Is indeed a repair "far from I the madding crowd.” i Only a few miles from Tours, it I stands on a hill, and has a fine view : over a wide sweeping valley. It is I near the Loire, whose silver stream | flows through a meadowland of peace : and quiet set in the region so well > named "the garden of France.” Gar. I den indeed it is, with an indefinable | charm all of its own, one of wi'de space, broad st|ro,ch of (blue, sky, rest, happiness and something soothing. Ever and anon the traveller comes across a magnificent cattle, but not a castle of threatening appearance. The Chateau de Cande was built by Francois Briconnet, a Mayor of Tours, early in the sixteenth century, and it later came into possession of th e Brodeau family, descendj ed from the Jean Brodeau who wau j killed at the siege of St!. Jean d’Acre, lin Palestine, during the Crusades’ The Brodeau family arms, a cross crossiet and three palms, are to be seen on the fireback in the drawing room. CSnde stands in the centre of an eliptis roughly 60 miles long by 3» miles broad, within which aye tieprincipal chateaus of Touraine.