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Château de Chenonceau: View of the keep or donjon, the ‘Tour des Marques’

Date

Circa 1910

Creator

G. Massiot & cie
Part of: Architectural Lantern Slides of France
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries

Of the medieval building, only the keep on the right bank of the Cher, the 'Tour des Marques', survives, with 16th-century alterations.

Built by Thomas Bohier 1515-1522. In 1560 Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France, compelled her husband's mistress Diane de Poitiers to surrender the Château of Chenonceau (Indre-et-Loire) to her. The gallery on the bridge spanning the Cher at the château (1576-1577), was part of Bullant's scheme to add to the château's sense of scale by creating dramatic axial approaches.

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Creator
G. Massiot & cie
Date
Circa 1910
Publisher
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
Material Type
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