i need help findng out info on a french castle in France that used to belong to the Forpomes Depommies family?

Question

my family has been trying to find out about our family castle for ages. we have been unsuccessful tho. all we really know is that our great great great... grandpa had a betting problem and one day when he was gambeling he realized he had bet everything else he had and thinking he was soo cool and all full of himself he bet the castle seeing as it was his last thing he had left to bet and he ended up losing the castle and now its run by the family that he lots the bet to. the family turned it into a winery and our other castle is owned by the government. if the owner of the castle dies his kids will get it and so on and so on. only when the last of that line has died will we ever see it! i was surfing the net one day trying to find out anything i could and i found a site that was all in french.it was a news thing. my mom knows a litte french so she said a little girl was retelling the story of the castles history. but that's all she knew. plz help me if you know anything. thanks -Lara

our castle is called "Châteaux dubruiel"

Answer 1

http://www.au-chateau.com/duBreuil.htm

This was all I could find. Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

Answer 2

If there is ANY factual basis to your tradition, there is likely to be a record of this. By doing solid research, you should be able to identfy the ancestor and find him in applicable records.
Many of "our" family were jazzed about the family castle in Fillingham, England. Until research proved beyond a doubt that our ancestor was in Maryland 100 yrs BEFORE the castle was built, and it was named for the town, not the family.
One thing that comes up often is such family "history" that is built on stories and not facts.