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Try your luck, pay just 11 Euros for this castle
The Caustine castle is the first prize of a charity lottery launched by its owner.

Bordeaux - Tickets cost £10 and a total of 500,000 are being sold at www.winafrenchchateau.co.uk.

By AFP

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Published: Sun 27 May 2018, 12:18 AM

A French chateau worth around 1.7 million Euros (Dh47 million approx) is up for grabs in an online raffle - and tickets cost just 11 Euros (Dh47 approx).
British philanthropist Ruth Philips is donating all the profits from the sale of her nine-bedroom Chateau de Cautine - set in 34 acres and complete with swimming pool - to good causes.
Entrants must be resident in England, Scotland or Wales and pick the correct translations of two French expressions - "les carottes sont cuites" and "ca ne casse pas trois pattes a un canard".
Tickets cost £10 and a total of 500,000 are being sold at www.winafrenchchateau.co.uk. Philips aims to use the profits to build affordable housing that does not damage the environment. Five per cent of the proceeds of the ticket sales will be donated to St Petroc's Society, a charity in Cornwall, southwestern England, for homeless people. All other profits will fund a community interest company run by Philips, The Eco Village Development Company, which builds houses that can run 'off-grid' for very low running costs.


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