Château de Talmont is a medieval castle in the Talmont-Saint-Hilaire commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region of western France.
History
The Château de Talmont was founded by the Count of Poitou in the 10th century and the first documentary records appear between 1040 and 1046. In 1138 the castle was held by Joscelin de Lezay, who was attacked by Louis VII; despite being considered invulnerable because it could be resupplied from the sea, the castle was burnt by the king. Talmont passed on to the Mauléons by the 1140s, but in 1182 Richard I of England became the lord of Talmont; he remained in control of the castle until his death in 1199, when it was returned to the Mauléon family.

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The Château de la Guignardière is a 16th-century château located outside Avrillé, in the Vendée department, western France. It was begun in 1555, but was never completed. The building and park are open to the public.
History
The château was begun in around 1555 for Jean Girard, panetier, or breadmaster, to King Henri II. It was planned as a symmetrical building, flanked by tall wings. However, in 1563, Girard was assassinated, and the building site was abandoned. The master masons, who had been imported from Paris by Girard, dispersed across the local area, influencing the designs of several buildings in the area.
Further building was not carried out until the 18th century, when Sylvestre, Count of Chaffault, attempted to complete it. Ionic pilasters were added to the principal windows, surmounted by a pediment inscribed with the Count's armorial bearings and the date 1773. Gardens were laid out, and the large pond excavated. However, the Count, a royalist, was forced to flee the country following the arrest of Louis XVI during the French Revolution. During his absence, a republican mob plundered the château, defacing the armorial bearings, and killing the Count's children.
By the early 19th century the château was owned by the Marquis de Saint Denis, a keen agricultural improver. He transformed the gardens, and planted numerous exotic trees, including Magnolia, Swamp Cypress, Zelkova and California Redwood. His successor Henri Luce de Tremont also hoped to complete the château, but instead he chose to move the curved perron stair from the proposed central bay of the garden facade, to the actual central bay. From 1920, the statesman Georges Clemenceau rented a house, known as la bicoque, ("the shack") on the estate. He became friends with the owner, Amedée Luce de Tremont, and was regularly entertained in the dining room of the château. La bicoque is now a state property, and is open to the public as the Maison de Georges Clemenceau. The château remains privately owned, and is now open to the public. It has been classed as a monument historique since 1978.
Architecture
The château is an example of French Renaissance architecture. It comprises a three-bay section of three storeys, the proposed central block, and a tall wing of four storeys. The steeply-sloping slate roofs are supported on the original oak timbers, felled on the estate and dated by dendrochronology to 1556. The roofs are topped by very tall red-brick chimneys. Each window has a mullion and two transoms, made of granite, as are other decorative features. The interiors include large granite fireplaces, probably modelled on published designs by the Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio.
Parc des Aventuriers
The 86-hectare (210-acre) gardens of the château have been developed as the Parc des Aventuriers, a children's adventure trail and treasure hunt, based on the history of world exploration. Within the park are a number of prehistoric menhirs, as well as more recent garden features.

Château de la Guignardière

Château de Saint-Chartier is located in the French town of Saint-Chartier in the department of Indre and region Centre-Val de Loire. Fortress composed of a dungeon originally flanked by four corner towers with a courtyard. In the park remains an arched gallery of the thirteenth century. George Sand is located his novel The Masters ringers. The castle has hosted for 32 years the St. Chartier Festival, called international meetings of luthiers and masters ringers, until 2008. Following the change of ownership, the festival moved to the castle of Ars and restoration Castle was begun.The castle is classified a historical monument (walls, curtains, common, Jeu de Paume, fireplace) and registered (the castle Main building), both of 14 February 1989. It dates from the early twelfth century, with transformations in the Renaissance and again in the nineteenth century.twelfth centuryThe castle is mentioned the first time in 1102, by reference to a visit of the Archbishop of Bourges Léodegaire to Adelardus Villebaldus (also called Adalard), which calls itself lord of Saint-Chartier. It's vassal lords of Deols. At the end of the twelfth century, the last of Raouls is Denise Deols and Chateauroux (1173-1207). She was widowed at sixteen; King Richard the Lion Heart gives in marriage to André de Chauvigny, faithful kings of England in 1189 and brought him in dowry Deols, Saint-Chartier, La Châtre, Le Châtelet, Chateauroux, etc. For centuries, Saint-Chartier is in the hands of Chauvigny fourteenth and fifteenth centuries The Chauvigny, rebuild the tower of the fourteenth century and the house in the fifteenth century. They also build, in the thirteenth century, a gallery called "real tennis".16th century The castle has undergone some changes over time of Louis XVI for the use of stables.19th century Count Jacques Aimé Marie Constant Moreton Chabrillan, Napoleon's chamberlain, becomes the owner of the castle. The castle is poorly maintained, and during the period of the Restoration, many parts of the castle are ruined.In 1858, Alexander I Naud, draper, bought the Castle. He lives there with his wife Clouard Victory and two children, Alexander II and Victorine. Alexander I built between 1864 and 1865 Barbault Chapel in the castle park, like funeral chapel for his family. The castle was restored in 1873-1880 by Victorine his daughter and her husband Michel Germain, assisted by Monsignor Trioche, and departmental architect Alfred Dauvergne.twentieth and twenty-first centuries Victim of a fire front in the first half of the twentieth century. Its current owner started the restoration in 2009.
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