Loire, France: Château de Chenonceau
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The château of Chenonceau in France's Loire is one of the great sights in all of Europe. Earlier châteaux were built for defensive purposes, but Chenonceau was the first great pleasure palace, designed for high society.
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Au fil du temps : Le Château de Chenonceau
Direction les châteaux de la Loire avec l'un des joyaux de notre patrimoine : le château de Chenonceau ! La demeure des plus grandes dames de France possède un jardin fantastique... Normal, en Touraine, le climat y est propice... Le raffinement à la française, c'est signé Silvère Rocher !
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The Château de Chenonceau is a French château spanning the River Cher, near the small village of Chenonceaux in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It is one of the most well-known châteaux of the Loire valley. The estate of Chenonceau is first mentioned in writing in the 11th century. The current château was built in 1514--1522 on the foundations of an old mill and was later extended to span the river. The bridge over the river was built (1556-1559) to designs by the French Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme, and the gallery on the bridge (1570--1576) to designs by Jean Bullant. An architectural mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance, Château de Chenonceau and its gardens are open to the public. Other than the Royal Palace of Versailles, it is the most visited château in France. The château is classified as a Monument historique since 1840 by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, Chenonceau is a major tourist attraction and in 2007 received around 800,000 visitors. In the 13th century, the fief of Chenonceau belonged to the Marques family. The original château was torched in 1412 to punish owner Jean Marques for an act of sedition. He rebuilt a château and fortified mill on the site in the 1430s. Jean Marques's indebted heir Pierre Marques found it necessary to sell. Thomas Bohier (fr) Chamberlain for King Charles VIII of France purchased the castle from Pierre Marques in 1513 (this leads to 2013 being considered the 500th anniversary of the castle: MDXIII--MMXIII.) Bohier demolished the castle, though its 15th-century keep was left standing, and built an entirely new residence between 1515 and 1521. The work was sometimes overseen by his wife Katherine Briçonnet, who delighted in hosting French nobility, including King Francis I on two occasions. In 1535 the château was seized from Bohier's son by King Francis I of France for unpaid debts to the Crown; after Francis' death in 1547, Henry II offered the château as a gift to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who became fervently attached to the château along the river. In 1555 she commissioned Philibert de l'Orme to build the arched bridge joining the château to its opposite bank. Diane then oversaw the planting of extensive flower and vegetable gardens along with a variety of fruit trees. Set along the banks of the river, but buttressed from flooding by stone terraces, the exquisite gardens were laid out in four triangles. Diane de Poitiers was the unquestioned mistress of the castle, but ownership remained with the crown until 1555, when years of delicate legal maneuvers finally yielded possession to her. After King Henry II died in 1559, his strong-willed widow and regent Catherine de' Medici forced Diane to exchange it for the Château Chaumont. Queen Catherine then made Chenonceau her own favorite residence, adding a new series of gardens. As Regent of France, Catherine would spend a fortune on the château and on spectacular nighttime parties. In 1560, the first ever fireworks display seen in France took place during the celebrations marking the ascension to the throne of Catherine's son Francis II. The grand gallery, which extended along the existing bridge to cross the entire river, was dedicated in 1577. She also added rooms between the chapel and the library on the east side of the corps de logis, as well as a service wing on the west side of the entry courtyard. Catherine considered an even greater expansion of the château, shown in an engraving published by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau in the second (1579) volume of his book Les plus excellents bastiments de France. If this project had been executed, the current château would have been only a small portion of an enormous manor laid out like pincers around the existing buildings. On Catherine's death in 1589 the château went to her daughter-in-law, Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, wife of King Henry III. At Chenonceau Louise was told of her husband's assassination in 1589 and she fell into a state of depression, spending the remainder of her days wandering aimlessly along the château's corridors dressed in mourning clothes amidst somber black tapestries stitched with skulls and crossbones. Henri IV obtained Chenonceau for his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées by paying the debts of Catherine de' Medici, which had been inherited by Louise and were threatening to ruin her. In return Louise left the château to her niece Françoise de Lorraine, at that time six years old and betrothed to the four-year-old César de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme, the natural son of Gabrielle d'Estrées and Henri IV.
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Le château de Chenonceau est situé dans la commune de Chenonceaux en Indre-et-Loire (France). Il fait partie des châteaux communément appelés les châteaux de la Loire.
Chenonceau est construit, aménagé et transformé par des femmes très différentes de par leur tempérament. Il est édifié par Katherine Briçonnet en 1513, enrichi par Diane de Poitiers et agrandi sous Catherine de Médicis. Il devient un lieu de recueillement avec la reine blanche Louise de Lorraine, puis il est sauvegardé par Louise Dupin au cours de la Révolution française et enfin, métamorphosé par madame Pelouze. C'est ainsi qu'il est surnommé le château des Dames, car « cette empreinte féminine est partout présente, le préservant des conflits et des guerres pour en faire depuis toujours un lieu de paix. Château meublé, décoré de rares tapisseries et peintures anciennes, c'est le monument historique privé le plus visité de France, serti de plusieurs jardins d'agrément, un parc et un domaine viticole ».
L'ensemble du domaine, propriété de la famille Menier, accueille annuellement 850 000 visiteurs. Le château est classé au titre des monuments historiques depuis son inscription sur la liste de 1840 et le parc par arrêté en date du 7 novembre 1962.
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Digne représentation de l'architecture Renaissance en Touraine, le château de Chenonceau enjambe le Cher, dont les eaux reflètent la perfection de sa construction. Outre sa position géographique le château de Chenonceau est connu comme le château des Dames. . Bâti en 1513 par Katherine Briçonnet, embelli successivement par Diane de Poitiers et Catherine de Médicis, sauvé des rigueurs de la Révolution par Madame Dupin,
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PERSONAE: Marques family, Thomas Bohier, Domenico da Cortona, Katherine Briçonnet
SUBJECTS: Sphinx, chimaera, French Renaissance, late Gothic early Renaissance, straight staircase
BUILDINGS: Château Chenonceau, Tour des Marques, medieval watermill, Château Chambord
MUSIC: Gauthier de Coincy (1178 – 1236); unknow Renaissance composer, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c1525 – 1594)
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Suivez le guide : le Château de Chenonceau
Château privé le plus visité de France, Chenonceau est remarquable a plus d'un titre. D'abord pour sa conception originale : enjambant le Cher avec de sublimes arches. Pour son architecture : style renaissance des plus élégantes et raffinées. Pour son environnement enchanteur, sublimé par deux magnifiques jardins du 16e siècle. Mais Chenonceau c'est aussi et surtout une destinée, puisqu'il fut aimé, administré et protégé par des femmes, toutes hors du commun et qui, pour la plupart ont marqué l'histoire.
Château de Chenonceau in Chenonceaux, France
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Les trésors des châteaux de la Loire | Documentaire
Classé au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco, le Val de Loire possède quelques-uns des plus beaux trésors français. C'est sur les bords du fleuve que la monarchie édifia ses plus beaux châteaux. Au XVe siècle, le pouvoir royal vient se fixer sur les rives de la Loire. De Charles VII à Henri III, les rois Valois, qui découvrent en Italie une nouvelle esthétique et un nouvel art de vivre, n'ont de cesse de les transposer en France, en faisant venir de nombreux artistes et artisans italiens, dont le plus célèbre d'entre eux, Léonard de Vinci
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Chenonceau, this French chateau spanning the River Cher, is one of the best-known chateaux of the Loire valley, and is the only chateau which is built above a river and connected with each bank by a bridge.
Chenonceaux is moored like a ship in the middle of the rapidly running Cher, a dozen miles or more above where that stream enters the Loire. The general effect is as if the building were set in the midst of the stream and formed a sort of island chateau.
The current chateau was built in 1514 - 1522 on the foundations of an old mill and was later extended to span the river. It took another 50 years to complete the bridge and the chateau wing on the bridge, with an architectural mixture of late Gothic and early Renaissance.
Chenonceau gets 1.3 million annual visitors, second-most popular chateau in France after Versailles.
The chateau has been classified as a Monument historique since 1840 by the French Ministry of Culture.
The original chateau built in the 13th century was torched in 1412 and later rebuilt along with a fortified mill on the site in the 1430s.
That chateau was demolished and an entirely new residence built between 1515 and 1521.
For the next 70 years the chateau changed ownership in a very complicated series of royal events that seem like an exaggerated historical movie, involving a bitter rivalry between a king's mistress and his wife. Let's try and follow this crazy chain of intrigue for a minute.
In 1535 the chateau was seized by King Francis I of France for unpaid debts to the Crown; after Francis' death in 1547, his son, King Henry II offered the chateau as a gift, not to his wife, Catherine de Medici, but to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who became fervently attached to the chateau along the river. Henry also gave Diane much more political power while generally ignoring his young wife Catherine for the next decade.
Diane extended the chateau across the river and oversaw the planting of extensive flower and vegetable gardens along with a variety of fruit trees.
After King Henry II died in 1559, his strong-willed widow Catherine de' Medici took revenge and forced Diane out of the chateau, making Chenonceau her own favorite residence. Catherine, who was daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent in Florence, became one of the most powerful women in 16th century Europe. With Henry, she gave birth to three French kings and two queens, but Catherine herself reigned as de facto queen after her husband passed away, until her death in 1589.
As ruler of France, Catherine spent a fortune on the chateau, eager to outdo the work of her rival, Diane. Catherine extended the grand gallery across the entire river, adding many rooms, a new series of gardens, and throwing spectacular nighttime parties.
And yet this was a turbulent time for the country, which was suffering from religious wars between catholic and protestant that killed many thousands.
Catherine considered an even greater expansion of the chateau, to make it five times larger, but this never happened.
Catherine's son, King Henry III, gave the chateau to his wife, Louise, but then Henry was assassinated eight months later, which put his widow into a state of depression for the remainder of her days, which she spent wandering aimlessly along the chateau's corridors dressed in mourning clothes amidst somber black tapestries stitched with skulls and crossbones.
Then Catherine's son-in-law became King Henri IV and gave Chenonceau to his mistress after paying the debts of Catherine and Louise.
In 1650, Louis XIV was the last king to visit, bringing to an end the regal possession.
in 1720 The Chateau was bought by the Duke of Bourbon who eventually sold off all of the castle's contents, with many of the fine statues ending up at Versailles.
Later in the 1700s it became a gathering place for leaders of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
It was spared from destruction during the French Revolution, because it was essential to travel and commerce, being the only bridge across the river for many miles.
The chateau was sold several more times, finally purchased in 1913 byt the Menier family, which still owns it, and welcomes visitors every day of the year.
L'Orangerie, restaurant gastronomique du Château de Chenonceau
L’orangerie - salon de thé du château de Chenonceau
Située face au Jardin Vert et destinée à l’origine à abriter les orangers et citronniers
durant l’hiver, l’Orangerie est à présent un restaurant gastronomique.
L’art de recevoir, la grande cuisine et le raffinement, depuis la Renaissance et ses fêtes
somptueuses, sont une tradition à Chenonceau.
Le restaurant gastronomique l’Orangerie perpétue cet esprit et accueille cette année son
nouveau chef formé chez Georges Blanc et Bernard Loiseau.
Depuis le XVIème siècle les vignobles qui entourent le parc produisent un vin renommé
de nos jours. Des dégustations de la nouvelle AOC “Touraine-Chenonceaux“ sont
proposées dans la cave historique des Dômes.
Les restaurants et salon de thé du château sont ouverts de mi-mars à mi-novembre.
L’acquittement du droit d’entrée est obligatoire pour accéder aux restaurants.
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Le Château de Chenonceau (Centre, Indre-et-Loire, France) Châteaux de la Loire
Le château de Chenonceau est situé en région Centre Val de Loire. Propriété de la Couronne, puis résidence royale, le château de Chenonceau est un site exceptionnel, de par sa conception originale sur le Cher mais aussi par sa destinée : aimé, administré et protégé par des femmes telles Diane de Poitiers et Catherine de Médicis. Aujourd'hui, le château de Chenonceau est, après Versailles, le château le plus visité de France.
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The Château de Chenonceau (French: [ʃɑto də ʃənɔ̃so]) is a French château spanning the River Cher, near the small village of Chenonceaux in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It is one of the best-known châteaux of the Loire valley.
The estate of Chenonceau is first mentioned in writing in the 11th century. The current château was built in 1514–1522 on the foundations of an old mill and was later extended to span the river. The bridge over the river was built (1556-1559) to designs by the French Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme, and the gallery on the bridge, built from 1570–1576 to designs by Jean Bullant.
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Fifth day of travels through France & Switzerland. We surveyed the Chenonceau Chateau and took a walking tour through Amboise before cheese and wine on the banks of the Loire river.
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The Château de Chenonceau is a castle near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert Delorm
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