Mysteries.of.the.Abandoned.S09E10.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-BTN_track3_[und] Subtitles

At 00:00:01,300, Character said: [narrator] A beautiful chateau
with an ugly past.

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At 00:00:06,000, Character said: This castles glory
was born out of deceit

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At 00:00:09,166, Character said: and treachery.

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At 00:00:14,500, Character said: [narrator] A gloomy structure
that administered hope.

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At 00:00:18,900, Character said: It was a remedy
to the racial injustices

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At 00:00:22,667, Character said: that were going on.

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At 00:00:28,667, Character said: [narrator]
And an out-of-this-world site

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At 00:00:30,000, Character said: [narrator]
And an out-of-this-world site

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At 00:00:31,166, Character said: built by sheer ingenuity.

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At 00:00:33,767, Character said: A lot of resources were spent

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At 00:00:35,967, Character said: to create these
beautiful spaces

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At 00:00:38,367, Character said: hundreds of feet above ground.

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At 00:00:45,200, Character said: [narrator] Decaying relics.

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At 00:00:48,200, Character said: Ruins of lost worlds.

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At 00:00:51,867, Character said: Sites haunted by the past.

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At 00:00:55,667, Character said: Their secrets
waiting to be revealed.

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At 00:01:07,166, Character said: In the heart
of France's Loire Valley

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At 00:01:10,367, Character said: to the southwest of Paris

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At 00:01:12,667, Character said: is a fairy tale structure
with a dramatic story to tell.

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At 00:01:21,567, Character said: I feel like I've been set down

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At 00:01:22,867, Character said: in the middle
of the Magic Kingdom.

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At 00:01:26,100, Character said: [Rob] It's beautiful
and utterly captivating.

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At 00:01:29,467, Character said: It's like this mix between
Angkor Wat and Disneyland.

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At 00:01:30,000, Character said: It's like this mix between
Angkor Wat and Disneyland.

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At 00:01:34,667, Character said: [narrator] This region
is known

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At 00:01:36,367, Character said: for its sprawling chateaus,

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At 00:01:39,000, Character said: but none looked like this...

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At 00:01:41,600, Character said: It's not the standard version.

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At 00:01:44,767, Character said: Most of them are very,
very symmetrical.

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At 00:01:46,767, Character said: This one is fun.

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At 00:01:48,367, Character said: It sits in the middle
of a lake, a deliberate lake,

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At 00:01:51,967, Character said: and it makes the castle
look like it's floating.

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At 00:01:55,000, Character said: It's a really clever
architectural trick.

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At 00:01:59,200, Character said: [narrator] Yet this once
lavish sights,

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At 00:02:00,000, Character said: [narrator] Yet this once
lavish sights,

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At 00:02:01,467, Character said: days of grandeur
are now a distant memory.

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At 00:02:05,767, Character said: The reefs gone and there's
vegetation crawling

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At 00:02:09,066, Character said: its way through
all the windows

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At 00:02:10,767, Character said: and along all the walls.

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At 00:02:13,700, Character said: [Claire] But behind
this glorious chateau

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At 00:02:16,166, Character said: is a tale of treachery
and deceit.

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At 00:02:19,767, Character said: [Rob] Its owner
was labeled a traitor

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At 00:02:21,567, Character said: by France's most
notorious king.

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At 00:02:26,266, Character said: [narrator] But his fall
from grace

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At 00:02:28,166, Character said: would be the making
of this fantastical place.

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At 00:02:30,000, Character said: would be the making
of this fantastical place.

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At 00:02:37,767, Character said: The Loire Valley is famed
for its extravagant castles.

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At 00:02:42,867, Character said: Centuries
of aristocratic wealth

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At 00:02:45,166, Character said: mean that opulence
is the norm here.

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At 00:02:49,567, Character said: We're in the heart
of the French countryside

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At 00:02:52,367, Character said: at the very tip
of the Loire Valley.

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At 00:02:55,166, Character said: All the Great Kings
of France enjoyed coming here

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At 00:02:58,000, Character said: to relax
in the fresh river air.

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At 00:03:04,667, Character said: [narrator] When Romain Delaume
first came here in 2017,

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At 00:03:09,100, Character said: he was instantly struck

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At 00:03:10,567, Character said: by the majestic charm
of the rundown ruin.

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At 00:03:15,567, Character said: [Romain] I fell in love
with the castle straight away.

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At 00:03:18,166, Character said: What with the water,
the castle and nature?

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At 00:03:20,767, Character said: We're experiencing
something special here.

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At 00:03:23,066, Character said: You can really sense
some very strong emotions.

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At 00:03:27,100, Character said: [narrator] Chateau
de la Mothe-Chandeniers

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At 00:03:30,000, Character said: [narrator] Chateau
de la Mothe-Chandeniers

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At 00:03:30,166, Character said: dates back
to the 13th century,

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At 00:03:33,767, Character said: a time when powerful kings
and queens ruled the land,

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At 00:03:39,200, Character said: long before bloody revolution

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At 00:03:41,467, Character said: would sever their heads.

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At 00:03:45,367, Character said: Here we are in the oldest
part of the estate.

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At 00:03:48,166, Character said: You can see this big wall,
which was once a moat.

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At 00:03:51,367, Character said: In fact, the main moat

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At 00:03:53,066, Character said: which wrapped
around the castle of La Mothe

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At 00:03:55,567, Character said: and in front of us,

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At 00:03:56,767, Character said: you can see the oldest
section of the castle,

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At 00:03:59,166, Character said: which were
the old medieval kitchens.

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At 00:04:00,000, Character said: which were
the old medieval kitchens.

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At 00:04:03,100, Character said: [narrator] Over the years,

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At 00:04:04,266, Character said: the chateau has changed
hands many times

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At 00:04:07,367, Character said: and so has its appearance,

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At 00:04:10,066, Character said: and its most notorious owner

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At 00:04:12,266, Character said: was Francois de Rochechouart.

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At 00:04:17,166, Character said: He's one of the great nobles
of the 17th century in France,

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At 00:04:21,567, Character said: quite close
to King Louis, XIII,

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At 00:04:24,266, Character said: the father of Louis XIV,

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At 00:04:26,266, Character said: and thick as thieves
with the ruling elite
in France at the time.

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At 00:04:30,000, Character said: and thick as thieves
with the ruling elite
in France at the time.

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At 00:04:31,400, Character said: Francois is captain
of the king's bodyguards,

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At 00:04:34,266, Character said: so he's responsible
for the royal family's
safety and protection.

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At 00:04:40,266, Character said: [narrator] But at the start
of 1643,

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At 00:04:43,266, Character said: the sudden death of the king
sent shockwaves across France.

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At 00:04:48,467, Character said: [Claire] The death
of Louis XIII

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At 00:04:50,266, Character said: brings about
great political unrest.

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At 00:04:53,266, Character said: They're in the middle
of the Franco-Spanish war,

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At 00:04:56,567, Character said: and a change in leadership
at this moment

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At 00:04:59,367, Character said: is absolutely catastrophic.

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At 00:05:00,000, Character said: is absolutely catastrophic.

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At 00:05:01,367, Character said: It turns politics
into turmoil.

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At 00:05:05,900, Character said: [narrator] The new king,
Louis XIV

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At 00:05:08,467, Character said: was just four years old,

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At 00:05:10,667, Character said: so his mother and her
advisers took control.

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At 00:05:14,266, Character said: They soon raised
taxes to cover

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At 00:05:16,367, Character said: the escalating cost
of the ongoing war with Spain.

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At 00:05:22,166, Character said: This provokes
an uprising in France

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At 00:05:24,567, Character said: of the leading
noble families,

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At 00:05:26,367, Character said: the merchant class

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At 00:05:27,667, Character said: and even just ordinary people

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At 00:05:29,467, Character said: in the big cities like
Paris against the regime

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At 00:05:30,000, Character said: in the big cities like
Paris against the regime

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At 00:05:32,367, Character said: rebelling against
these tax demands.

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At 00:05:36,000, Character said: 1648 marks
the start of a series

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At 00:05:39,000, Character said: of small civil wars

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At 00:05:41,066, Character said: collectively known
as the Fronde.

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At 00:05:43,667, Character said: [Geoff] And during
The Fronde,

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At 00:05:45,100, Character said: Rochechouart
falls under suspicion

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At 00:05:47,367, Character said: of agitating
against Louis XIV,

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At 00:05:50,000, Character said: and so he's imprisoned

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At 00:05:51,467, Character said: by order of the king
for two years.

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At 00:05:55,600, Character said: [narrator] On his release,
Francois,

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At 00:05:58,266, Character said: now exiled from Louis
Royal Court in Paris,

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At 00:06:00,000, Character said: now exiled from Louis
Royal Court in Paris,

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At 00:06:01,867, Character said: retreats to his family's
dilapidated castle

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At 00:06:05,066, Character said: here in the Loire Valley.

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At 00:06:07,867, Character said: [Claire] Originally built
as a hunting lodge,

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At 00:06:09,967, Character said: the fortress has been
pretty much disused
for centuries,

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At 00:06:15,166, Character said: but he sets about
transforming it

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At 00:06:17,266, Character said: into a renaissance palace.

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At 00:06:20,900, Character said: And to make up for his
dramatic fall from grace,

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At 00:06:24,467, Character said: he creates his own court
to overshadow...