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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 Manoir de Venevelles, or Château de Venevelles, is a 15th-century manor house in the commune of Luché-Pringé, in the Sarthe departement of France.Established in the 11th century at the bottom of the Aune valley, at the foot of a wooded hill, the manor was rebuilt after the Hundred Years' War by the d'Espaigne family.
Château de Trécesson, a 14th-century manor-house in Morbihan, Brittany In France, the terms château or manoir are often used synonymously to describe a French manor house; maison-forte is the appellation for a strongly fortified house , which may include two sets of enclosing walls, drawbridges , and a ground-floor hall or salle basse that ...
manoir du Clap, 16th-19th century Manor in la Cerlangue, Upper Normandy. Manoir de Dur-Écu, 16th century manor in Urville-Nacqueville, Normandy. Manoir de Mathan, 16th century manor in Crépon, Normandy. Manoir de Mézarnou, 16th century manor in Finistère, Brittany. (under extensive restoration) Château de la Motte, Joué du Plain
Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the manor house in April 1799 for herself and her husband, General Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon I of France, at that time away fighting the Egyptian Campaign. Malmaison was a run-down estate, seven miles (12 km) west of central Paris that encompassed nearly 150 acres (0.61 km 2) of woods and meadows.
The elegant facade made with pink bricks and whites stones was typical of the 15th century. Formally called Château de Cloux, the building was property of the Chateau D’Amboise, and the lands of Lucé were annexed to the castle from the 14th century. At the time, the manor was surrounded by fortifications; only one still remains, the watchtower.
Claude de Harville (c. 1555 –1636), Lord of Palaiseau and Champlan, inherited the fief of La Celle and married Catherine Juvénal des Ursins (c. 1560 –1643) in 1579. Protected by Henry IV, who made him State Councillor and Vice-Admiral of France, Count Harville had the current Château de La Celle built between 1610 and 1614. [2]
Name Image Location Type Date Notes Appenzell Castle: Appenzell: Manor house: 1563: Original owner Antoni Löw executed 1584. 1584-1682 used as Franciscan monastery. Today known as "Doctor's House" and privately owned.