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    The Château of Val-Duchesse (French: Château de Val-Duchesse; Dutch: Kasteel van Hertoginnedal) is a château and estate situated in the municipality of...
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    Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the Vexin regional nature park [fr]. The commune grew around the Château de...
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    Haryett, created comte de Béchevet by Napoléon III, was a spendthrift and had to sell the château in 1870 to the duchesse de Beauffremont. A few months...
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    Cloister Abbey and its art centre, the Priory of Val-Duchesse, the Château of Three Fountains, the Château Saint-Anne, and St. Anne's Chapel. Three forest...
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    The Château d'Anet is a château near Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, built by Philibert de l'Orme from 1547 to 1552 for Diane...
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    in the French department of Eure-et-Loir in the Centre-Val de Loire region. The château was built in the 16th century for Étienne Poncher, the Archbishop...
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    of duchesse Claire de Duras. In 1885 the comtesse de la Rochejaquelein bequeathed Ussé to her great-nephew, the comte de Blacas. Today the château belongs...
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    (Château de Chantilly) Biography portal Henry IV of France's wives and mistresses French royal mistresses French: Gabrielle d'Estrées, duchesse de Beaufort...
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    (1838) and finally Duchesse de Sagan (1845). She was also owner from 1828 à 1847 of the Château de Rochecotte at Saint-Patrice. Then chateau was purchased...
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    ISBN 978-0-241-20631-7. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Château de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne. Château de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne website 50°06′58″N 5°05′30″E / 50...
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    Françoise Marie extended the small château under the direction of Claude Desgots who also worked at the duc du Maine's château de Sceaux. Her many daughters were...
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    of the sixteenth century), was first lady-in-waiting to la Duchesse d'Orléans. The château had its apogee in the Grand Siècle. The hearts of the Maréchal...
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    The Château of Seneffe or Château de Seneffe is an 18th-century château located in the municipality of Seneffe in the province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium...
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  • French word for castle is "château", be it for an old medieval fortress ("château fort") or a residential castle. The term "château-ferme" means that a medieval...
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    of the Hallstein Commission was held on 16 January 1958 at the Chateau de Val-Duchesse. The EEC (direct ancestor of the modern Community) was to create...
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    Collégiale Saint-Étienne. In 1816, the duc de Penthièvre's daughter, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, duchesse d'Orléans, had a new chapel built on the...
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    The Château de la Verrerie is a château in Oizon, in the ancient province of Berry (now Cher) in France. It is an historic ancestral seat of a junior...
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    The Château de Choisy was a royal French residence in the commune of Choisy-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne department, not far from Paris. The commune was...
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    husband René de Vignerot.[citation needed] In 1620 Vignerot married a nephew of the constable de Luynes, Antoine de Beauvoir du Roure, sieur de Combalet,...
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  • Thumbnail for Houtain-le-Val Castle
    Houtain-le-Val Castle (French: Château de Houtain-le-Val) is a château in Houtain-le-Val, Wallonia, in the municipality of Genappe, Walloon Brabant, Belgium...
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    daughter (Château de Saint-Cloud, 12 or 13 July 1745 – 14 December 1745, Château de Saint-Cloud); Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans (Château de Saint-Cloud...
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    Château Miranda (English: Miranda Castle), also known as Château de Noisy (English: Noisy Castle) was a 19th-century neo-Gothic castle in Celles, province...
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    Exposition au château de Versailles (oct. 2021-fév. 2022) et catalogue: Alexandre Maral, Nicolas Milovanovic (dir.), Les animaux du Roi, Paris, Château de Versailles...
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    du château de Versailles [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj]) occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the royal demesne of the château of...
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    Jacques de Matignon, comte de Torigny; Paule-Françoise-Marguerite de Gondi, duchesse de Retz et de Lesdiguières; Béat-Albert-Ignace, baron de Montjoie;...
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    The Château des Amerois (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto dez‿amʁwa]) is a 19th-century neo-Gothic style castle in the Ardennes forest, south-east of Bouillon...
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    The Château de L'Isle-Adam, now destroyed, could be found in the town of L'Isle-Adam in the department of Val-d'Oise; it was built on an island called...
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    The Belvédère Château (French: Château du Belvédère; Dutch: Kasteel Belvédère; German: Schloss Belvédère) is a residence of the Belgian royal family in...
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    (1808–1854), 5th duc de Mouchy, Princes de Poix; Charles Antonin (March 13, 1810 – August 24, 1852, Chateau du Val (Seine-et-Marne)), styled comte de Noailles, commander...
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    Bouillon Castle (French: Château de Bouillon) is a medieval castle located in Wallonia in the town of Bouillon in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium....
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