Cheverny is the castle that I most enjoyed ever!
Was it because the beautiful park surrounding it, for its architecture so different from the other or its richly decorated rooms ...
do not know, I just know that I'm in love!
Now I'm bored a bit 'with its history, of course, is not my bag of flour, but taken from a book on the castles of the Loire that I bought.
Raoul Hurault Cheverny was built in a fortified castle in the first half of the 500, but at his death his widow sold the property passed into the hands Diane de Poitiers, who in turn sold it in 1565 to the son of Raoul, Comte de Cheverny Hurault Philippe d'Orleans and the governor.
Now bursts the drama that will lead to construction of the castle ...
The wife of Henry, son of Philip, betrayed him. Surprise on the fact the woman is poisoned while the squire offender is sentenced to death.
Henry then destroy the castle is the scene of the drama ...
remarries. And his second wife seems to be the inspiration for the construction of the castle. The building was completed in 1634.
successors are not interested in the property that was acquired by Dufort: the castle had been abandoned and it took 12 years to get it back to its former glory, transforming it into one of the best houses of the time.
In 1825 the castle came into the hands of Hurault. The Marquis of Philip
Hurault Vibraye was one of the first owners in France to understand that we need to open to the public the historic homes while continuing to live there.
The plan of the castle represents a break with the conception of the feudal castle, Cheverny is the first example of this classic style defined.
The equilibrium volumes and symmetry dominate this complex.
The real show, however, the apartments are: high quality furniture, tapestries, paintings attributed to Titian and Raphael ...
It seems to be received in a house still inhabited, and actually the descendants of the family still reside in a part of the castle!
To crown the wonder of this place is a beautiful park, a vegetable, the kennel with about 70 hunting dogs crossing Foxhound and Poitevin and a museum dedicated to Tintin, Hergé's comic book was born from the pen, whose adventures are set in a villa which is based right in the castle of Cheverny but excluding the two wings.
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