Frontenac died on November 28, 1698 at the Chateau St Louis after a brief illness, deeply mourned by the Canadian people.

The idea was to keep the meeting small and informal by limiting it to a number that could fit into the library of the chateau at Rambouillet.

What you should in fact do is employ all of the world's top male and female supermodels, pay them to walk the length of the train, handing out free Chateau Petrus for the entire duration of the journey.

After the weakening of the dollar and President Richard M. Nixon s decision to end its convertibility into gold, in 1975 France convened leaders of five countries in the library of the Chateau de Rambouillet to discuss monetary affairs.

Can happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc, 8 ounces of Kobe beef and the fabled Kopi Luwak coffee. His critique may surprise you.

One of them was Why is it necessary to spend six billion pounds speeding up the Eurostar train when, for about 10 percent of that money, you could have top supermodels, male and female, serving free Chateau Petrus to all the passengers for the entire duration of the journey?