Gaspard Paradizo is the father of Minerva and Beau Paradizo. He appears in The Lost Colony. He owns a chateau on the Vence side of Tourrettes sur Loup, twenty minutes from Nice. Tourrettes is a small artisan's village perched on the lower slopes of the Alps Maritime. The Paradizo chateau was farther up the slopes, on a flattened peak below the snow line.