Le château d'Hodebert est un château situé sur la commune de Saint-Paterne-Racan, dans le département d'Indre-et-Loire.
Historique
François Brissonnet, écuyer, seigneur de Launay, conseiller et aumônier du roi, chanoine prébendé de la basilique Saint-Martin de Tours et prévôt d'Oë, fit ériger l'élément central de l'actuel château sur les restes arasés d'une ancienne forteresse qui fut construite dans une excavation du coteau.
En 1545, sa châtelaine, la veuve Durand, comparut devant le chapitre de Saint-Martin de Tours.
Devenu depuis le siège de la justice prévôtale d'Oë, c'est donc dans ce lieu que, le 20 novembre 1620, le poète Honorat de Bueil de Racan fut traduit pour rendre l'hommage lige à son suzerain féodal François Brissonnet. En 1650, cette châtellenie est aux mains de Henry de Codosny, seigneur de Hodebert et de Saché, maître d'hôtel du roi, conseiller en ses conseils privés, époux de Madeleine Dunoyer, fille du bailli de Saint-Christophe. À la fin du xviie siècle, il appartient à Jean du Noyer, seigneur de Gennes.
En 1794, le banquier Alexandre-Pierre-François Goüin et son épouse, Marie-Magdeleine Benoist de La Grandière (fille de l'ancien maire de Tours), l'acquierent, puis le revendent le 30 décembre 1808 à Louis-François de Sarcé.
En 1890, Eugène de Sarcé lègue Hodebert à Robert Roullet de La Bouillerie, ses descendants en sont toujours propriétaires.
Le château fait l’objet d’une inscription au titre des monuments historiques depuis le 26 octobre 2009. Le 26 mai 2018, un incendie provoqué par la foudre endommage partiellement une tour du château.
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Le parc fait l’objet d’une inscription au titre des monuments historiques depuis le 25 septembre 1944.

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The Château de Vaujours is a ruined castle from the 12th and 15th centuries, located in the commune of Château-la-Vallière in the Indre-et-Loire département of central France. It was part of the seigneurie (manor) of Chasteaux-en-Anjou, the future Château-la-Vallière.
Location
The castle is located 3 kilometres south of Château-la-Vallière. It stands on the eastern border of the ancient Haut-Anjou, part of the former province of Anjou.
History
The fiefdom of Vaujours was a dependency of the sénéchaussée (bailiwick) of Baugé and the diocese of Angers. Hugues I d'Alluye, living in 978, is the earliest known lord. The castle of the barons of Chasteaux was built to defend the territory of Anjou.
Construction of the castle can be attributed to Hugues VI d'Alluye or to Rotron of Montfort, around 1250.
During the Hundred Years War, the fortress was never taken by the English. A major restoration was undertaken in the 15th century. Jean V de Bueil, nicknamed «le Fléau des Anglais» (the flail of the English), altered the defences such that they became impenetratable. He later died there, in 1477.
Louis XI stayed there during his visits to Anjou.
The daughter of Charles VII and Agnès Sorel, Jeanne de Valois, married Antoine de Bueil, son of Jean V de Bueil.
Under the Ancien Régime, the castle was bought by Louis XIV in 1666 and given in 1667 to his former mistress, Mademoiselle Louise de la Vallière; she became Duchesse de La Vallière et de Vaujours.
In the 18th century, Louise de la Vallière left the castle and bequeathed it to the Davot family, who occupied the castle for a long period. The castle was abandoned during the French Revolution. In 1815, it was sold to Thomas Stanhope-Holland who used it as a quarry.
The site was added to the list of monuments historiques on 24 October 1944, and the ruins were classified on 26 January 1989.
The site and castle are private property but offer guided-tours to the public.
Architecture
The castle ruins stand in the valley of the Fare, south of Château-la-Vallière, close to the hamlet of Vaujours.
The castle, of typical military architecture, stands on a mound in the middle of a lake whose waters feed the moats which surround it. It is formed of two fortresses: a bailey to the west and the castle to the east.
The entry to the double enceinte is defended by two cylindrical towers and a flying bridge, flanked to the north by a bastion. A drawbridge and a posternflanked by a cylindrical tower to the north provide access to the courtyard. The residence is to the south, the ruins of the chapel to the north. To the east, the towers give access to a covered chemin de ronde and to the south the bastion connected to the fortress and a further building.
Inside the fortress the keep still exists, as well as the lower courtyard. The enceinte includes several towers, some of which have rustication. The moats are, today, dried up and invaded by vegetation. The ruins have been cleared of vegetation and are surrounded by lawns and hedges.

Château de Vaujours

In the Loire Valley, the heart of a wooded area, lies the castle Champchevrier, inhabited by the same family since the early eighteenth century.
On the foundations of an ancient fortress, family Daillon built in the sixteenth century a dwelling elegant Renaissance. One hundred years later, is added to this house a house of classic style with its lined railings opening onto a park and a moat terrace.
The estate was bought by Jean-Baptiste de la Rue du Can, who by letters patent of King Louis XV becomes Baron Champchevrier. The current owners are the direct descendants.
It is a traditional castle as Champchevrier hosts VIPs first and foremost the king who by his apartment. It was Louis XIII who came to inaugurate the first « Royal Room » and is Daillon Francis, governor of the king’s brother, who welcomes. This is certainly the only castle where King « slept on straw. » The archives of his personal physician evidenced. They teach us that the king arrived at half past six, looked at the pond, had dinner, and « can not sleep on a satin cushion, made to fetch fresh straw, gets top shirt and s ‘sleeps up to three hours and a quarter. survey, clothed tasted … he takes his gun, go to the barnyard and goes shoot pigeons …  » He was only 18.
Today this room is decorated with Louis XVI furniture whose history is also original. The records tell us that in 1787 and 1788 the Baroness Champchevrier and two girls decide to develop the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms. They harvest 580 cocoons, they give to a factory tour. It weaves the silk and the lady will be able to cover the bed and canopy and all the chairs a lovely raspberry silk.
In the dining-room now, or « living portraits », the floor is of Italian marble, and wood Louis XV a very pale yellow are decorated with chinoiserie, exotic animals, monkeys, parrots and fruit in sepia tones. A little hidden in the woodwork door opens on the old freight elevator that still works today.
At the end of the room is a large ceramic stove dating from 1780, which is the leading form of naval gun decorated with dolphins and balls attached by chains. Made by the King Stove Fitting He was originally a royal command to the castle of Richelieu and remains unique.
In two large rooms, one can admire a beautiful Regency period furniture, and a set of unique tapestries after the « Loves of the Gods » and following the « Journey of Odysseus, » according cartons Simon Vouet, and another suite of Beauvais tapestry representing greens.
Drawn as always by the barns and the imprint of time and successive generations, I went up in the attic, and there is happiness for a romantic memories; Dozens of small rooms and a huge following corridor through the entire house. I open all the cabinets and trunks overflowing with rolls of wallpaper and fabrics of the eighteenth and nineteenth century antique curtains lounges, linons white embroidered lace, fringes, silk.
In other trunks and closets, boxes broken collar, starched shirt fronts, liveries, and even more valuable-of Louis XVI silk vests and purple coats embroidered with gold. In the laundry, linen and embroidered figure of the family of Beatrice towels.
Beatrice Bizard was 25 years old when she arrived at Champchevrier. His mother was, of course, the lady of the house and ran the field with his son Jacques. Gradually, she has tamed the big house that she has an anchor point for children and their cousins. In 1995, a turning point was when Peter started with Beatrice and they decide to open the castle to the public during the three summer months, while maintaining a private party.
And it is with enthusiasm that they organized this new life.
http://www.champchevrier.fr

Château de Champchevrier

Château de l'Escoublère, is a sixteenth-century Renaissance castle located in Mayenne Daon, 2 km northeast of the town. The castle, built around 1570, date on the well indicated and also the style of the building includes the castle itself, with towers at the corners and in front, and a gatehouse which addresses a wooden walkway quin replace the old drawbridge. Above the porch, a mullioned window on the cross, crowned with a triangular pediment and low, with shield in the center. The two towers have topped a bell-shaped roof of a lantern. Flukes are walled, deep, water never fails. Well, in the courtyard, is a work of art; the corners of the square edge, four composite columns with capitals support an architrave and frieze with inscription: "In te, Domine, speravi not confundar in aeternum; In justitia tua libera me "and above a nested dome. The chapel is among those whose conservation seems appropriate in the year XII.
http://www.frenchchateau.net/chateaux-of-pays-de-la-loire/chateau-de-l-escoublere.html

Château de Escoublère

The Château du Lude is one of the many great châteaux of the Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire) in France. The château is situated in the commune of Le Lude in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire and stands at the crossroads of Anjou, Maine and Touraine. Le Lude is the most northerly château of the Loire Valley and one of the last important historic castles in France, still inhabited by the same family for the last 260 years. The château is testimony to four centuries of French architecture, as a stronghold transformed into an elegant house during the Renaissance and the 18th century. The monument is located in the valley of le Loir. Its gardens have evolved throughout the centuries. It is a harmonious combination of French design and an English-style landscape, with a rose garden, topiaries, a labyrinth and a botanical walk.
History
The original fortress was built between the 10th and 11th centuries on the banks of the river Loire in order to defend Anjou from the incursions of the Normans and then the English during the Hundred Years War.
Louis XI's chamberlain, Jehan de Daillon, took possession of the Lude estates at the end of the 15th century. He employed Italian artists to convert the fortress into a residence.
In 1751, Le Lude became the property of Joseph Duvelaër, head of the Council of The French East India Company. His niece, the Marquise de la Vieuville, built the classical wing in the style of Louis XVI and defended the château during the French Revolution. Her descendants, the Talhouët-Roy, carried out extensive works of restoration throughout the 19th century. Le Lude has been passed down to the current occupants Count and Countess Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ, who have carried on its tradition of restoration and decoration.