All she wants now is a little château en Espagne.

The need of a Radical organ to make head against the Edinburgh and Quarterly (then in the period of their greatest reputation and influence) had been a topic of conversation between him and Mr. Bentham many years earlier, and it had been a part of their Château en Espagne that my father should be the editor; but the idea had never assumed any practical shape.

At about this stage her châteaux en Espagne began to rock upon their foundations; a seismic phenomenon due to the appearance of Mama Thérèse and Papa Dupont, coming from zinc and kitchen for their dinner, which meal they habitually consumed in the café when the evening rush was over, the tables undressed, and the establishment had settled down to drowse away the dull hours till closing time.

flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne

[person who is hopeful] optimist, utopian, utopist^. castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne

A third instance, but of merely local notoriety, was that of William Houston, who, according to his own account was a British subject who had come from Liverpool as a ship steward in 1840 and while at New Orleans had been offered passage back to England by way of New York by one Espagne de Blanc.

POSADA, f., auberge, en Espagne.

Dufau calls her works illustrations and posters, and gives the following as the principal examples: "Fils des Mariniers," in Museum of Cognac; "Rhythme," "Dryades," "Automne," a study, Manzi collection; "Espagne," "Été," Behourd collection; "Automne," Gallery of the Luxembourg.

Alonzo de Zurita, "Rapport sur les differentes classes de chefs de la Nouvelle-Espagne," p. 30, in H. Ternaux-Compans's Voyages, Relations et Mémoires originaux, pour servir à l'Histoire de la Découvertede l'Amérique (Paris, 1840);

Nouvelle Espagne, traduite par D. Jourdanet et R. Simeon (Paris, 1880), bk.

CHÂTEAUX EN ESPAGNE, castles in Spain, visionary projects.

Sometimes I spend an evening with Baron Eotvös, the Minister of Public Instruction, my old friend; and there only we get both warm in remembering the days of our youth, and building châteaux en Espagne for the future of the country.

Et comme rien n'est plus contagieux que l'imagination, et que, grâce au baron de Montrichard, j'ai l'esprit tout plein de conspirateurs et d'arrestations, j'étais là à faire des châteaux en Espagne ... de catastrophes ...

[Footnote 163: #châteaux en Espagne#, castles in Spain, i.e., air castles, foolish fancies.

#château#, m., manor house, country seat; # en Espagne#, air castle.

#Espagne#, f., Spain.