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Today, Chambord is a major tourist attraction, and in 2007 around 700,000 people visited the château. [23] After unusually heavy rainfall, Chambord was closed to the public from 1 to 6 June 2016. The River Cosson, a tributary of the Loire, flooded its banks and the château's moat. Drone photography documented some of the peak flooding. [28]
Impromptu is a 1991 period drama film directed by James Lapine, written by Sarah Kernochan, produced by Daniel A. Sherkow and Stuart Oken, and starring Hugh Grant as Frédéric Chopin and Judy Davis as George Sand.
Château de Chambord, a French château built in the 16th century; Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, the French commune where the château is located; Chambord, Eure, a commune in the Eure département of France; Chambord, Quebec, in Canada; Henri, Count of Chambord, a pretender to the French crown from the House of Bourbon; Simca Vedette Chambord, a ...
Inside the Lescot Wing the decoration was inspired by ancient Greece. In the ballroom, the balcony for the musicians was carried by caryatides made by Jean Goujon, inspired by those on the Acropolis in Athens. Goujon was also responsible for the coffered ceiling of the right stairway of the Lescot Wing, decorated with a sculpture of hunting scenes.
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The documentary, titled The Real Crown: Inside the House of Windsor, claims to be a behind-the-scenes story of the “lives, loves, scandals, trials and tribulations” of the royal family.
Born in Paris as Élisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, into a wealthy Catholic family whose roots were in the Burgundy region. Her ancestors included the Napoleonic general Laurent Augustin Pelletier de Chambure.
His design for the royal Château de Chambord, represented in a wooden model, survived into the seventeenth century [3] but responsibility for the design is also given to Leonardo da Vinci, who was at the royal court at Amboise at the same time, [4] and the actual construction, during which much was improvised, was under the on-site supervision ...