Chateau de Cheverny - Loire Valley
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The Château de Cheverny is located at Cheverny, in the département of Loir-et-Cher in the Loire Valley in France. The lands were purchased by Henri Hurault, Comte de Cheverny, and Treasurer for War under King Louis XI.
Lost to the Crown because of fraud to the State, it was donated by King Henri II to his mistress Diane de Poitiers. However, she preferred Château de Chenonceau and sold the property to the former owner's son, Philippe Hurault, who built the château between 1624 and 1630.
During the next 150 years ownership changed many times and in 1765 a major interior renovation was undertaken. Required to forfeit much of the Hurault wealth at the time of the French Revolution, the family sold it in 1802(the period of Napoleon Bonaparte) but bought it back in 1824. This was the period of the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under King Charles I. The aristocracy was once again a very strong political and economic position.
In 1914, the owner opened the chateau to the public, one of the first to ever do so. The family still operates it, and Château Cheverny remains a top tourist attraction to this day, renowned for magnificent interior rooms and its collection of furniture, tapestries, and objets d'art.
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Places to visit - Chateau de Cheverny
- Blois Place
- Chateau de Blois Chateau
- Chateau de Chambord Chateau
- Chateau de Cheverny Chateau
Any places listed above are within about 20-25 km (as the crow flies)
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