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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, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire. [1] It is one of the best-known châteaux of the Loire Valley. [2] The estate of Chenonceau is first mentioned in writing in the 11th century. [3]
Chenonceaux (French pronunciation: [ʃənɔ̃so] ⓘ) is a commune in the French department of Indre-et-Loire, and the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. The castle and its flower gardens. It is situated in the valley of the river Cher , a tributary of the Loire , [ 3 ] about 26 km (16 mi) east of Tours and on the right bank of the Cher.
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It was built by Louis Le Vau from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle-Isle (Belle-Île-en-Mer), Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
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Katherine Briçonnet (ca. 1494–1526) was a French noblewoman, daughter of Guillaume Briçonnet and wife of Thomas Bohier . She was influential in designing the Château de Chenonceau . Her husband had purchased the site which contained the ruins of an earlier fortress as he wished to build a Renaissance château there.
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