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Château d'Ussé. Coordinates: 47°14′59″N 0°17′28″E. View of the Château's towers. Ussé is a castle in the Indre-et-Loire département, in France. The stronghold at the edge of the Chinon forest overlooking the Indre Valley was first fortified in the eleventh century by the Norman seigneur of Ussé, Gueldin de Saumur, who surrounded ...
D’Ussé. D’Ussé is a brand of cognac made at the Château du Cognac in Cognac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. [1] It is a subsidiary of Bacardi. [2] D’Ussé produces just two cognacs: D’USSÉ VSOP and D’USSÉ XO. D’Ussé VSOP is aged at least four and a half years in the Château de Cognac cellars. [3] D'USSÉ Cognac was founded by ...
Château de Chambord. The Château de Chambord (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d (ə) ʃɑ̃bɔʁ]) in Chambord, Centre-Val de Loire, France, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture, which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures.
Europe and North America. The châteaux of the Loire Valley (French: châteaux de la Loire) are part of the architectural heritage of the historic towns of Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Montsoreau, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours along the river Loire in France. They illustrate Renaissance ideals of design in France.
Château d'Amboise. The Château d'Amboise is a château in Amboise, located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt. King Charles VIII died at the château in 1498 after hitting his head on a door lintel.
The lordship of Uzès was founded in the 11th century, at the beginning of feudalism, by Elzéart d'Uzès, 1st Lord of Uzès.The fortified town and its fortified castle were then built (then remodeled over time) on the site of the previous castrum, with its ramparts, its corner towers, its 42 -metre keep, built by Bermond I of Uzès in the 12th century, its lordly dwelling (with a 16th-century ...
Coordinates. 47°19′29″N1°04′13″E / 47.3247°N 1.0704°E. 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.
Louis Boudan. Louis Boudan (16??–17??) was an artist who worked for François Roger de Gaignières, a French genealogist, antiquary and collector who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Boudan carried out commissions for de Gaignières for over 30 years. [1]