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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]
July 31, 2003 (Chicago: Cook: Magnum opus of landscape architect Jens Jensen.: 11: Arthur H. Compton House: Arthur H. Compton House: May 11, 1976 (Chicago: Cook: Home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect.
Map of Fort Crevecoeur in 1680 Map by Abbott Claude Bernou in 1681, showing Fort Crèvecoeur on the East bank of the Illinois River.. Fort Crevecoeur (French: Fort Crèvecœur) was the first public building erected by Europeans within the boundaries of the modern state of Illinois and the first fort built in the West by the French. [2]
Benton is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Illinois.The population was 6,709 at the 2020 census. [3] In 1839, Franklin County was split roughly in half and the county seat was permanently fixed "at a hill at the south end of Rowling's Prairie", the site of the future city of Benton.
On January 1, 1718, the French government granted a trade monopoly to John Law and his Company of the West. Hoping to make a fortune mining precious metals, the company built a fort to protect its interests. The original wooden fort was built in 1718–1720 by a French contingent from New Orleans, led by Pierre Dugué de Boisbriant.
Boldt Castle: legendary island estate, one of America's largest private residences; Boscobel: the Federal style estate of States Dyckman by the Hudson River in Garrison, New York; Camp Pine Knot: the earliest of the Great Camps of the Adirondacks, a National Historic Landmark
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The Cher (/ ʃ ɛər / SHAIR, French: ⓘ; Occitan: Char) is a river in central France, a left tributary of the Loire. It is 365.1 km (226.9 mi) long, [1] and its basin area is 13,718 km 2 (5,297 sq mi). Its source is in the Creuse department, north-east of Crocq. It joins the river Loire at Villandry, west of Tours.