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    Paris-pittoresque.com. Retrieved 2009-05-19. Château d'Oiron Fraser 2006, pp. 104–105 "Le chateau de Clagny". Versailles.forumculture.net. Retrieved...
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    Château-la-Vallière (French: [ʃɑto la valjɛʁ] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. The Château de Vaujours, situated 3 kilometres...
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    of Chasteaux-en-Anjou, the future Château-la-Vallière. The castle is located 3 kilometres south of Château-la-Vallière. It stands on the eastern border...
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    Chantilly, Oise Château Lafite - Pauillac, Gironde Château de Laversine - Saint-Maximin, Oise Château des Laurets - Puisseguin, Gironde Château Malmaison -...
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    1739, he left the château to his son and heir, the famous bibliophile, Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc. The new duc de La Vallière was later to become...
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    the construction of a magnificent new château at Montrouge around 1750, the duke gradually abandoned the Château de Champs-sur-Marne. Eventually, he tried...
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    Brienne-le-Château (French pronunciation: [bʁijɛn lə ʃɑto]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. It is located 1 mile (2 km) from...
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  • including: The Château de Champs-sur-Marne gardens (the chateau pictured below) The Château de Janvry The Château of Lésigny The Château de Maisons-Laffitte...
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  • St. Martin, dating from the thirteenth century. The fourteenth-century château de Villeneuve. Two menhirs, at Fraisse and Les Garennes. Communes of the...
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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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    Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles, Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region of France. When the château was built, Versailles was a country...
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    Picardy. Château d'Autremencourt in Autremencourt Château de Blérancourt in Blérancourt Château de Caulaincourt in Caulaincourt Château de Chailvet in...
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    Charles de La Baume Le Blanc, the nephew of Louise de La Vallière, and became the mother of Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duke de La Vallière. In 1707...
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    Montrottier, Lovagny Château de Montvuagnard, Alby-sur-Chéran Château de Morgenex, Vallières Château de Mortery, Menthonnex-sous-Clermont Château de Nernier, Nernier...
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  • in France were used for filming, including the Château de Fontainebleau and Fouquet's actual chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte for the final ball scene. United...
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    seducing the young Count of Vermandois (son of Louis XIV and Louise de La Vallière) with his set (including the Prince of Conti) and began practicing le...
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    hall of the Château de Digoine). The Château de Digoine and the Hôtel de Besenval were simultaneously owned by the family de Moreton de Chabrillan and...
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    The Château de Bagnolet was a château situated in the Paris suburb of Bagnolet, France, 5.2 km from the center of the capital. The property was part of...
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    born in 1677 at the Château de Maintenon, owned since 1674 by Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, the governess of Madame de Montespan's illegitimate...
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    in France Base Mérimée: Château, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Base Mérimée: Château, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Official...
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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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    Sardini; the Hôtel Viart; the Hôtel de Villebresme, in which Denis Papin lived; the Château de la Vicomté (i.e.: Château of Viscounty), in the hamlet of Les...
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    Willeman (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    château, whose façades and roof, along with a dovecote, are listed as historic monuments. A seventeenth century manor house, the Manoir de Vallières....
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    supérieur de la Nouvelle-France de 1717 à 1760, 7 vols. (Beauceville: L'"Eclaireur," 1932), 1: 190-205. Vallières (2011), p. 25 Vallières (2011), p. 26...
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    staying at the Château of Chambord where Anne was also present. At the time, Louis' affections were split between Louise de La Vallière and her future...
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    he had built a country house outside Paris at Le Port-Marly, the large Château de Monte-Cristo, with an additional building for his writing studio. It often...
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    maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, the woman her mother had replaced...
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  • (who married Madame de Maintenon's heiress) and the Duke of La Vallière. The elder of two children, Louis was known as the marquis de Gondrin from 1712...
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    (Château de Sceaux, 15 October 1701 – 13 July 1775), died unwed. Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Aumale (Palace of Versailles, 31 March 1704 – Château de Sceaux...
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    and Salaberry as well as the author of "Adolphe", Benjamin Constant. Château de Chaumont Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department "Répertoire national...
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