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2. Pays de la Loire. Pays de la Loire comprises five department, each with a different character and charm: Loire-Atlantique: Average home price €648,000 ($691,000)
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
Type. Manor house. The Manoir de Venevelles, or Château de Venevelles, is a 15th-century manor house in the commune of Luché-Pringé, in the Sarthe departement of France. Established in the 11th century at the bottom of the Aune valley, at the foot of a wooded hill, the manor was rebuilt after the Hundred Years' War by the d'Espaigne family.
Hameau de la Reine. The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: [amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France. It served as a private meeting place for the queen and her closest friends and as a place of leisure.
The Manoir de Mézarnou in the town of Plounéventer, France. The Manoir de Mézarnou is a fortified 16th century manor-house located in the Finistère département of Brittany in northwestern France. It is located in the small rural town of Plounéventer, near Landivisiau. It was erected by Yves de Parcevaux, who reorganised the domaine ...
Château. Château de Versailles. A château (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto]; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions. Nowadays, a château may be any ...
American soldiers admired the architecture of rural France and who returned from the war they built homes in the style. In the United States the style remained popular though the 1920s. [1] By 1932 nearly one in three homes in America had French Provincial design elements.The style fell out of favor in the 1930s, [6] but had a resurgence in the ...
Château de Trécesson, a 14th-century manor-house in Morbihan, Brittany. In France, the terms château or manoir are often used synonymously to describe a French manor house; maison-forte is the appellation for a strongly fortified house, which may include two sets of enclosing walls, drawbridges, and a ground-floor hall or salle basse that ...