Say What?!: More than 8,000 Strangers Purchase Decaying French Chateau

EUROPE – Thousands of strangers joined a crowdfunding campaign to save a crumbling French chateau from being demolished.

A group of 8,186 pledged at least $60 each on the French crowdfunding site Dartagnans to “adopt” the 13th-century Chateau de la Mothe-Chandeniers with the hopes of restoring the property and opening it to the public.

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