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  1. stonemason
    a craftsman who works with stone or brick
    The site director, Florian Renucci, is a stonemason who worked on restoring national monuments, like the Pont Neuf in Paris.
  2. Loire
    the longest French river
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  3. fakery
    the act of faking (or the product of faking)
    She worked instead in an agency trying to find work for the jobless, but the fakery and cynicism involved outraged her, she said.
  4. guyot
    a seamount of volcanic origin
    In partnership with Michel Guyot, a neighbor who restored the nearby Château de St.-Fargeau, she bought an abandoned red sandstone quarry and the woods around it, which contained the oak trees, clay, sand and water (found, she said, by diviners) that would be needed for construction.
  5. besotted
    marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
    BuzzPermalink TREIGNY, France — Maryline Martin, like a lot of little French girls, was besotted with the Middle Ages, with castles and maidens and knights.
  6. besot
    make someone dazed or foolish
    BuzzPermalink TREIGNY, France — Maryline Martin, like a lot of little French girls, was besotted with the Middle Ages, with castles and maidens and knights.
  7. Pensacola
    a town in extreme northwest Florida
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  8. ribbed
    (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture
    The first stone was cut and laid in 1997, and now the shape of the castle is taking form, with its round towers, great hall and ribbed, vaulted arches.
  9. scaffolding
    a temporary framework used in construction to support workers and materials
    The scaffolding of wood is supported by ropes, and the local authorities insist that modern rope that has met standard tests be used for load-bearing supports.
  10. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
    The intention of Guédelon is essentially academic and didactic — to try to use or recreate, as nearly as possible, the building techniques of the time, which is supposed to be 1241, in the early years of Louis IX.

    The castle is meant to belong to a regional lord who sided with the crown after a failed baronial insurrection in 1226 — wealthy enough to use some cut stone, buy some spices and have a great hall, but not rich enough to have a drawbridge.
  11. cynicism
    a pessimistic feeling of distrust
    She worked instead in an agency trying to find work for the jobless, but the fakery and cynicism involved outraged her, she said.
  12. masonry
    the craft of building with stone or brick
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  13. chisel
    an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
    The directors negotiate with the local authorities and insurance companies, so that the stonemasons, for example, must wear goggles when they cut or chisel stone, and workers must wear steel-toed boots.
  14. mason
    a craftsman who works with stone or brick
    “But a good mason is a cheat.
  15. scaffold
    a temporary arrangement erected around a building
    The scaffolding of wood is supported by ropes, and the local authorities insist that modern rope that has met standard tests be used for load-bearing supports.
  16. contractor
    someone who is hired to build things
    Holmlund Masonry
    Brick and Chimney Restoration No Sub-contractors
    www.masonry.com
  17. municipal
    relating to a self-governing district
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  18. profitable
    yielding material gain
    The regular entrance fee is 9 euros, and the profitable tavern is leased to a private company.
  19. franc
    the basic monetary unit in many countries
    A French Castle Built of Stone and Dreams

    Philippe Schuller for The New York Times
    Françoise de Montmollin at work in the kitchen at the Guédelon castle in Burgundy

    By STEVEN ERLANGER
    Published: July 31, 2010
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  20. arch
    a curved masonry construction for spanning an opening
    The first stone was cut and laid in 1997, and now the shape of the castle is taking form, with its round towers, great hall and ribbed, vaulted arches.
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