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Chateau de Valencay

Positively brimming with renaissance furniture and fittings, it is clear that the original owners of Chateau de Valencay didn't lack for cash or things to spend it on. Built by an extravagant businessman and later home to a leading revolutionary, it has certainly had a chequered history.

Château de Valençay is a château in the commune of Valençay in the Indre département in the Loire Valley of France.

The castle was built in 1540 by Robert d'Estampes and most notably acquired in 1747 by the Scottish banker John Law. A wing was added in the late 18th century.

In 1803 the castle was purchased by the diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. Ferdinand VII of Spain spent six pleasant years at Chateau de Valencay in Napoleonic gilded captivity.

During the Second World War the château was spared by the German Occupation, as its owner the duc de Valençay established his personal neutrality as Prince de Sagan. On this technicality, treasures from the Louvre like the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo were safely sheltered here.

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