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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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