• Thumbnail for Château d'Anet
    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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  • Philippe de Caraman-Chimay, 22nd Prince de Chimay (b. 1948). The main residence of the princely family is Chimay Castle (French: Château de Chimay), which...
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    temperature ever recorded was −11.6 °C (11.1 °F) on 8 February 2012. The Château de Saint-Félix-Lauragais is a 12th-century castle which is listed as a...
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    The Castle of Menars (French: château de Menars, pronounced [ʃɑto də menaʁ]) is a castle (château) associated with Madame de Pompadour situated on the...
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  • Chimay and Prince de Caraman (of Belgium), and Marie Joséphine Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac. Named for its Belgian "château de Chimay", his family...
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    Hôtel de Chimay. It was sold in 1883 to the École des beaux-arts. In 1863, he built a theatre in his château de Chimay in Belgium, designed by Hector-Martin...
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  • Thumbnail for Joseph de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1836–1892)
    October 1836 at the Château de Menars in France. He was the eldest son of Belgian diplomat and industrialist Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th Prince de Chimay...
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    The Château de Beaumont (French: Château de Beaumont or Dutch: Kasteel van Beaumont) was a castle in Beaumont, Belgium. In the 15th century, it became...
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    inauguration of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, in May 1913. In 1908 there was a grand party in the gardens of the Château de Versailles with actors from...
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    L'Histoire Albigenoise. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Château de Saissac. Base Mérimée: Château de Saissac, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)...
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    (renamed Hôtel de Rohan), 35 boulevard des Invalides in Paris, the Château de Josselin in Morbihan, and the Chalet des Fées in Pontaillac, built by his wife's...
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    Countess Marguerite Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (29 December 1913, Paris - 1 September 1990, Nice ) on 25 August 1937 at the Château de Sully. Had issue, including:...
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    came into the possession of the Riquet de Caraman family after which it was called the Château des Caramans [fr]. It was demolished after a fire in 1794...
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    (renamed Hôtel de Rohan), 35 boulevard des Invalides in Paris, the Château de Josselin (Morbihan) and the Chalet des Fées in Pontaillac, built by her father...
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    forming a border with the commune of Marignac-Lasclares. The Château de Saint-Élix-le-Château is a 16th-century castle which is listed as a historic site...
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  • with whom he restored many castles, including Napoléon's Château de Malmaison. Place des États-Unis Françoise Talon, « Les palaces », in Les Champs-Élysées...
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  • Thumbnail for Édouard de La Rochefoucauld
    Bisaccia in 1908. From his father, he also inherited the Château d'Esclimont in Saint-Symphorien-le-Château, Eure-et-Loir, which his father, Sosthènes I, had...
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    d'Elzius, De Croy, de Merode, de la Rochefoucauld, de Riquet, Prince de Caraman-Chimay, de Lannoy, d'Oultremont, von Schönburg-Glauchau, de Brouchoven...
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    lands at the edge of the park belonging formerly to Madame de Montespan's Château de Clagny, of which eleven hectares were consigned to the queen by her...
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    death in November 1899, Director of the psychiatric asylum of Bordeaux, « Château-Picon » (since 1974: Hospital Center Charles Perrens). He died in this...
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    Grains. On 31 October 2023, Toulouse was named UNESCO City of Music. Le Château d'Eau, an old 19th-century water-tower, was converted as a gallery in 1974...
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    Louis XIV and mother of the Duchess of Orléans. She later moved out to the Château de Colombes where she died in 1669. In 1681, the hôtel was purchased by...
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  • Doubts may exist as for the attribution of the Château de Cadillac [fr] from 1599 to 1603 then for the Château de Poyanne [fr] between the two Pierre Souffron...
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    Crown 1547   Duke of Alençon 1566 Royal family Extinct 1584   Duke of Château-Thierry 1566 Royal family Extinct 1584   Duke of Auvergne 1569 Royal family...
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  • Thumbnail for Émilie Pellapra
    married John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio. She died at the Château de Menars on May 22, 1871. BIBESCO, Mme le Princesse (1921). "UNE FILLE...
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    Carrousel below. Louis Napoleon last saw his uncle with the family at the Château de Malmaison, shortly before Napoleon departed for the Battle of Waterloo...
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    Naturiste Le Couderc in Dordogne Centre naturiste Terme d'Astor in Dordogne Château Guiton Club du Soleil Bordeaux Côte d’Argent Club du Soleil Dordogne Périgord...
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    l’exposition du Musée des beaux-arts de Gaillac, château de Foucaud. Gaillac. 2002. Marguerite Gaston, Images romantiques des Pyrénées. Les amis du musée...
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    southwest. Originally a 15th-century castle, the privately-owned castle Château de Cambiac has been much altered and is listed as a historic site by the...
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    October 1893, at the Château de la Forêt [fr] at Montcresson, after having written his memoirs. He was buried on 22 October at the Hôtel des Invalides after...
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