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in France. It is one of the best-known châteaux of the Loire Valley. The estate of Chenonceau is first mentioned in writing in the 11th century. The current château was built in 1514–1522 on the foundations of an old mill and was later extended to span the river. The bridge over the river was built
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region of France. When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a wealthy suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when
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and his royal successors. The quality of the residences could vary considerably, from grand châteaux owned by royalty and the wealthy elite near larger towns to run-down châteaux vacated by poor nobility and officials in the countryside, isolated and vulnerable.
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are aristocratic in implication, but Bordeaux had a better claim to the association: nobles had owned Bordeaux's best vineyards for centuries. Most of Burgundy's best vineyards, in contrast, had been owned by the Church. The term
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in French, which is usually applied only to very grand residences in a city. This usage is again different from that of the term "palace" in English, where there is no requirement that a palace must be in a city, but the word
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that, with some official rank, locally represents the royal authority; thus, the word château often refers to the dwelling of a member of either the French nobility or royalty. However, some fine châteaux, such as
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denotes buildings as diverse as a medieval fortress, a Renaissance palace and a fine 19th-century country house. Care should therefore be taken when translating the French word
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is now protected by French law, and confirmed in 1981 by European Union law, as "traditional appellation". The term Château may be used only if two conditions are fulfilled:
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The word château is a French word that has entered the English language, where its meaning is more specific than it is in French. The French word
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since the 19th century, no matter how humble, to prefix its name with "Château". This term became the default way of designating an estate in
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is used with the same definition as in France. In Belgium, a strong French architectural influence is evident in the seventeenth-century
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may be any stately residence built in a French style; the term is additionally often used for a winegrower's estate, especially in the
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that rendered the society of the château largely self-sufficient, in the manner of the historic Roman and early medieval
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or a keeper's lodge, and supporting outbuildings (stables, kitchens, breweries, bakeries, manservant quarters in the
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château of manageable size. Protected behind fine wrought iron double gates, the main block and its outbuildings (
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became a permanent verbal fixture in Bordeaux, and it was emulated in other French regions and outside France.
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The wine concerned have to be made exclusively from grapes harvested from wine belonging to that vineyard,
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into English, noting the nature of the building in question. Most French châteaux are "
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in France. Montsoreau was built in 1453 by Jean II de Chambes (first counsellor of
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began to be walled-in, and then fortified in the 3rd century AD, thus evolving to
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is rarely used for buildings other than the grandest royal residences. The term
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was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the
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Hempstead, Andrew; Cuthbert, Pamela; Aykroyd, Lucas (12 November 2013).
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is a French château spanning the river Cher, near the small village of
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made the château de Montsoreau world famous with his trilogy on the
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from 1556 to 1559 to designs by the French Renaissance architect
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is used in French for an urban "private house" of a grand sort.
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Jordi, Nathalie; Sommer, Lauren; Sussman, Anna (5 June 2007).
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There are many estates with true châteaux on them in the
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is used to describe a fortified castle, such as the
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Index

Chateaux
Château (disambiguation)
Chalet

Château de Versailles
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manor house
palace
lord of the manor
nobility
gentry
fortifications
Bordeaux region
France

Château fort de Roquetaillade
palaces
country houses
Château de Versailles
Château fort de Roquetaillade
palais
hôtel particulier
John Summerson
stately homes
Vaux-le-Vicomte
bourgeois
ennobled
tax-farmers
Louis XIII

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