Toured this place today. Before we went in the docent ran down the rules, emphasizing the ones that were made “for influencers,” with Gilded Age worthy disdain.
The du Pont life was okay.
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Shades of Versailles.
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FUN FACT: In 1909-10 when Nemours was created by Alfred I. du Pont as a gift for his second wife, Alicia, 44 percent of working Americans lived in abject poverty.
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Looks like mosquito heaven though.
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I mean, sure, if you like opulence and acreage, and fresh air, and bodies of water on your property...
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Some of those pictures remind me of Schönbrunn Palace, on a smaller scale.
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Weeeelll, dawggie. Did it have a see-ment pond?
