With a history of 800 years, Chateau du Clos Luce is a small chateau with a famous tenant; Leonardo da Vinci lived his last three years there as “premier painter” and architect to King Francis.

Véronique Dausse accomplished the seemingly impossible: a woman with no connections to a well-to-do Bordelais family, let alone not being from Bordeaux herself, becoming general manager of a well ...