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Château de Versailles. A château (French pronunciation:; 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.
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]
The French word château (French pronunciation:; plural: châteaux) has a wider meaning than the English castle: it includes architectural entities that are properly called palaces, mansions or vineyards in English.
The Palace of Versailles (/ v ɛər ˈ s aɪ, v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, France.
The first chateau was a square "donjon" or ... At the far corner of the English garden close to the palace is the only remaining element of the original gardens of ...
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.
Chateau d'If is the title of a 1949, short story written by Jack Vance (previously published as New Bodies For Old). [8] The fortress was used as the location where Alain Charnier a.k.a. Frog One (Fernando Rey) meets Devereaux (Frédéric de Pasquale) to finalize the drugs shipment to the United States in the 1971 crime film The French Connection.
The trailer for the finals of the 2019 League of Legends World Championship was filmed inside and around the chateau. The fifth leg of The Amazing Race 32 had a Roadblock and a Speed Bump take place on the grounds of the château. [11] The castle is a location in the 2022 movie The Gray Man. [12]