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There was already a castle here in the Middle Ages. Count Odo I of Blois had it built in the 10th century to protect Blois from the attacks of Foulques Nerra, Count of Anjou. Later he left it to the Norman knight Gelduin, who fought as a vassal for the House of Blois and had the fortress strengthened
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Every year, around 800,000[1] tourists visit the estate, making Chenonceau, after Versailles, the most visited castle in France. The "most elegant, refined, and original of the Loire castles“[2] is also called the Castle of Ladies (French: Château des Dames), because it was almost always women who determined
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Its builder in the second half of the 16th century was Jean Le Breton, royal financial secretary and administrator of the county of Blois under King Francis I. Work on Villesavin was completed in the first quarter of the 17th century under Jean Phélipeaux. Equipped with an orangery during the 18th century
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The castle was built between 1620 and 1630 in an early and strict classical baroque style for Count Henri Hurault, General Plenipotentiary for the Government of Orléans and Seneschal of Blois, and is still inhabited today by his descendants, the Hurault de Vibraye family. The construction manager was
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The first documented owner of the estate was Robert Bugy, during the time of Francis I, administrator of the salt warehouse of Blois and shield-bearer of the King. His descendants inhabited the castle until the 18th century.
In 1732, Troussay was acquired by the Pelluys family, and in 1828, the badly
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Château d'Amboise stands in the small town of Amboise in central France, in the Indre-et-Loire department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. The castle, built above the town and the Loire on a rocky plateau, is one of the most important castles of the Loire in terms of cultural
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