I see that Sean Connery’s old place in Nice is for sale, at a price which is now only ridiculous (not by Midi standards, though):
And yes, the French property taxes are sick, and yes the annual “wealth” tax is sicker yet, and all that other negative stuff.
You’d have to carry me out in a body bag.
I don’t know about France – or the US – but super-expensive properties here are often owned by property companies, often offshore. And if you pay $1 a year rent, that’s a contractual matter between you and your landlord.
Just goes to prove the old saying…you can’t take it with you…..R.I.P. Mr Connery
What are the French laws for evicting squatters? Asking for a friend.
“1/24-acres of sprawling grounds” Is that a metric acre, or does “sprawling” mean something different over there?
Apparently Sean had not lived there since 1980s….just a name for marketing. One and a quarter acres. Sure ain’t Texas but Europe I supposed is about the interior of the home….excellent pics in this article….
https://www.workandmoney.com/s/sean-connerys-french-riviera-estate-ab38cbab4eb34912
Okay 1.24 acres makes more sense. The Daily Mail article still says “1/24 acres” which is less than 1800 sq. feet. My guess is they don’t know what an acre is, so when they put 1/24 it didn’t stick out as glaringly incorrect.
My old slide-rule tells me that the house is approx. 10,780 sq ft.
Is that place where the money transfer scene in Casino Royale was filmed (the Daniel Craig version)?
It looks very similar…
That scene was shot on Lake Como in Italy.
Beautiful place. We visited there in 2015 after the missus made a little boo-boo and bought two sets of round trip tickets to Europe for our 2014 French adventure and had to use them up in a year. We went with a travel group from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Funny, it reminded me of two other films, To Catch A Thief and Hopscotch.
It certainly looks familiar.
Don’t they all look alike?/s
I guess our tastes in houses / architecture differ.
If they gave it to me, I’d tell them – ‘cut the price again and send me the check when it’s gone !’.
I’ll just take the chair and footstool please – that’ll do nicely.
Build a decent indoor pistol range (not nearly enough space for rifle) somewhere in there, and we can talk. Well, except the price is juuuust a bit outside my range. And in France; that’s a problem.
I toured one of the DuPont mansions once. The ground floor had, among other things, an indoor pistol range, a billiards room, an ice cream and seltzer making room, their own generating plant, and a safe room with an armored dumbwaiter for storing the _good_ silver.
Stay away from crowds.(quoth Ol’ Remus)
That looks suspiciously like the house used in the mini-series _The Night Manager_.