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Château Saint-Jean, which overlooks the roads from Chartres to Le Mans and from Châteaudun to Bellême from the plateau on which its stands, [2] was built in several stages. . The rectangular keep, 17 by 24 metres (56 ft × 79 ft) in area, made of stone, remains 35 metres (115 ft) high.
Nogent-le-Rotrou (French pronunciation: [nɔʒɑ̃ lə ʁɔtʁu]) is a commune in the department of Eure-et-Loir, northern France.. It is a sub-prefecture and is located on the river Huisne, 56 kilometres west of Chartres on the RN23 and 150 kilometres south west of Paris, to which it is linked by both rail and motorway.
In 1622, King Louis XIII of France (1601–1643) visited the chateau. [5] Four decades later, in 1660, King Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) was also a guest. [5] In 1933, Blanche d'Estienne de Saint-Jean, the heiress to the estate, donated the chateau and its grounds to the city of Aix-en-Provence. [6]
This is an incomplete list of castles and châteaux in Belgium. [a] The Dutch word kasteel and the French word château refer both to fortified defensive buildings (castles proper) and to stately aristocratic homes (châteaux, manor houses or country houses).
The Château de Jean is a French château built on the site of an older castle in the commune of Villariès in the Haute-Garonne département of France. About 1559, the De Jean family acquired the castle which was destroyed in 1570 during the Wars of Religion. The current château was built with a defensive character on the site of the old ...
In 1771, Count Jean-Jacques de Plas de Tanes acquired the château and the Seigneury of Montal. His son Antoine married a daughter of the Germanic nobility. He was a Deputy for the nobility in the Estates General in 1789, but had to give up his domain once the French Revolution began. He fled in 1792, the château was ransacked, unsuccessfully ...
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