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Chambord| French château of the Renaissance period, situated in the département of Loir-et-Cher, 19 km/12 mi east of Blois. The castle was begun by Francis I in 1519, and was completed by his successors. It has many turrets and gables, and stands in a walled park. |
| It was a residence of the French kings down to Louis XV, and of Marshal Saxe, Diane de Poitiers, Stanislaus Leszczynski, and Marshal Berthier, who was given the castle by Napoleon I. After Berthier's death it passed to the Comte de Chambord, who left it to the royal house of Bourbon-Parma. The château is now open to the public. |
| Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was first performed in the castle in 1670. |
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| After his little morning hawking-party on the banks of the Beuvion, or in the woods of Chiverny, Monsieur crossed the Loire, went to breakfast at Chambord, with or without an appetite and the city of Blois heard no more of its sovereign lord and master till the next hawking-day. Not a view in the world, either at Chambord or at the Alhambra, is more magic, more aerial, more enchanting, than that thicket of spires, tiny bell towers, chimneys, weather-vanes, winding staircases, lanterns through which the daylight makes its way, which seem cut out at a blow, pavilions, spindle-shaped turrets, or, as they were then called, "tournelles," all differing in form, in height, and attitude. |
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