Escape to teh Chateau. Like many Brits, retired Lieutenant Colonel, engineer, and chef, Dick, and his entrepreneur and designer wife, Angel, had long dreamed of living in France. But where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridge’s fell in love with a 19th-century fairy-tale chateau, complete with 45 rooms, seven outbuildings, 12 acres of land and its own moat.