- 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...
- to
Chinon which were
built of the
local tuffeau stone. The Château de
Chenonceau is a
French château
spanning the
river Cher, near the
small village of...
-
entrusted Diane with the
Crown Jewels of
France and gave her the Château de
Chenonceau, a
piece of
royal property that
Catherine had
wanted for herself. However...
- she
hosted a
famous literary salon in
Paris and
owned the Château de
Chenonceau,
which was
known as a
center of the most
famous French philosophers of...
- and the Hôtel de la
Reine in Paris, and
extensions to the Château de
Chenonceau, near Blois. Born in 1519 in Florence,
Catherine de'
Medici was a daughter...
- century.
Catherine de
Medici also
commissioned additions to the Château de
Chenonceau. The
bridge over the Cher
river had been
built by
Philibert Delorme. After...
- de Chinon, Château du Rivau, Château d'Ussé, Château de
Villandry and
Chenonceau. The châteaux,
numbering more than
three hundred,
include the necessary...
- such as the Châteaux d'Amboise, de Chambord, d'Ussé, de Villandry, de
Chenonceau and de Montsoreau,
which illustrate to an
exceptional degree the ideals...
- of
Thomas Bohier [fr]. She was
influential in
designing the Château de
Chenonceau. Her
husband had
purchased the site
which contained the
ruins of an earlier...
- from the Château de
Chenonceau Fountain of Diana, in the
gardens of the Château de
Fontainebleau Aerial view of Château de
Chenonceau and its
gardens Jardin...