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The evaluation of the property drawn up in 1638 mentions, apart from the manor house, four barns, a press house, two wheat mills, and two mills "straddling the river". "Above and beyond this is a mill called the fulling mill, with the forecourt of said chateau on one side, and the stream of the pond on the other", it says.
The Château de Richelieu was an enormous 17th-century château (manor house) built by the French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642) in Touraine. It was demolished for building materials in 1805 and almost nothing of it remains today.
Palace of Fontainebleau (/ ˈ f ɒ n t ɪ n b l oʊ / FON-tin-bloh, US also /-b l uː /-bloo; [1] French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.
The house, in the Basque style, looks out at the Pyrenees. To the east of the house is a formal geometric French garden, with fountains, statues, three basins, a topiary garden, an orangerie, a belvedere a pergola, and a "poet's corner". The garden has colorful annual displays of rhododendrons and azaleas.
The Château Louis XIV is a château constructed between 2008 and 2011 [1] [2] in the commune of Louveciennes in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region. [3]The chateau was built by the property developer Emad Khashoggi's property development company COGEMAD using traditional craftsmanship techniques and materials.
Alabama: Acre. Auburn. The gorgeous stone façade of Acre matches the interior, a master class in rustic sophistication. Wrought iron chandeliers, white-washed brick, tall banquettes, and plenty ...
The façade facing west, the French Garden, is the richest: it is adorned with a forecourt of four isolated columns [62] in the Corinthian style surmounted by capitals. [63] [note 7] On the south courtyard side, the ground floor is embossed horizontally, [note 8] while the main floor and attic are punctuated with Corinthian pilasters. [64]
Courtyard of the Palais Jacques Cœur Aerial view by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, in his Dictionnaire Raisonné de L'Architecture Française du XIe au XVIe siècle (1854-1868) The Palais Jacques Cœur is a large hôtel particulier built by Jacques Cœur for himself and his family in Bourges, France.