What she owned was a much more modest country house at Neauphle-le-Château, a historical bourgade forty-five minutes west of Paris where there was once a fortified castle.    From Wordnik.com.  ['In Love with Duras'] Reference

He put money in his pocket (heaven knows how), for by 1597 he was bargaining for the best house in his native bourgade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown] Reference