August, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry showing a group of travelers and the Duc's Château d ' Étampes in the background

fr: Château de Balmoral

File: Crème Chantilly. jpg | Crème Chantilly was created at the Château de Chantilly

fr: Château de Kenilworth

When Germany occupied the Sudetenland, many important artworks such as the Mona Lisa were temporarily moved to the Château de Chambord.

Select sculptures such as Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo were sent to the Château de Valençay.

Rosso Francois I Gallery, Château de Fontainebleau, France

Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, France

Château de Falaise in France

Château de Richelieu.

In 2007, Foster bought the Château de Vincy in Gilly, Switzerland from the German industrialist Charles Grohe.

The negotiations succeeded ; while the war was in its final phase King William of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor on 18 January 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors in the Château de Versailles.

* Château de Roquetaillade

It was agreed that pope and emperor should meet at the Château de Mousson, near Rheims, and in October the new Pope opened the council at Rheims attended by Louis VI of France with most of the barons of France and more than four hundred bishops and abbots.

* the Château de Rambouillet is normally open to visitors when not used for ( rare ) official meetings ;

Geoffrey de Rancon's Château de Taillebourg, the castle Richard retreated to after Henry II's forces captured 60 knight s and 400 archers who fought for Richard when Saintes was captured.

He took refuge in Château de Taillebourg for the rest of the war.

The fall of Château de Gisors to the French in 1196 opened a gap in the Norman defences.

In his final years, the castle became Richard's favourite residence, and writs and charters were written at Château Gaillard bearing " apud Bellum Castrum de Rupe " ( at the Fair Castle of the Rock ).

Only in mid-1921 was he able to find a permanent residence in the Château de Muzot in the commune of Veyras, close to Sierre in Valais.

Versailles () is a city in the Yvelines département in Île-de-France region, word-widely renowned for its château, the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Besides, the Congress of France-the name given to the body created when both houses of the French Parliament, the National Assembly and the Senate, meet-gathers in the Château de Versailles to vote on revisions to the Constitution.

The Château de Rastignac compared to the South Portico of the White House, ca.

Château ( plural châteaux ; ) or chateau is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally — and still most frequently — in French-speaking regions.

On the other hand there are many beautiful châteaux in the Bordeaux region still depicting this Roman villa style of architecture, an example of this being Château Lagorce in Haux.

The family still operates it, and Château Cheverny remains a top tourist attraction to this day, renowned for magnificent interiors and its collection of furniture, tapestries, and objets d ' art.

Today, the Château Brissac is still owned by a de Cossé family member.

On 21 September 1869 at the Château de Marchais ( which is still in the possession of the Grimaldi family today ) in Champagne, Prince Albert was married to Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton ( 1850 – 1922 ), of Lanarkshire, Scotland, a daughter of the 11th Duke of Hamilton and his wife, Princess Marie of Baden.

In the 14th century, the seigneury of Mouscron was eventually sold to a Tournai lord, and in 1430, the local castle became the lord ’ s manor, or Château des Comtes, which can still be seen today.

* The medieval castle known as the Château des Comtes can still be visited.

Some traditional and / or idiosyncratic wineries still do this, including Château Musar.

A small selection of cheap wines available at the corner shop were, and in some cases still are, sarcastically referred to as " Cuvée dépanneur ," or " Château Dépanneur.

The Château de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, an ancient castle with massive 14th century towers, and a 12-15th century abbey still mark a vivid history during the Middle Ages.

Despite the time spent racing automobiles and producing the 1932 film Lac-aux-Dames, the first French " talkie " to gain international recognition ( adapted from a novel by Vicki Baum and directed by Marc Allegret, it had a script by Colette and starred Jean-Pierre Aumont and Simone Simon ), the energetic Philippe de Rothschild still devoted his energies and innovation to Château Mouton Rothschild in Pauillac.

His family, one of the numerous branches of the House of Gontaut, took its title from the territory of Biron in Périgord, where on a hill between the Dropt and the Lide still stands the magnificent Château de Biron begun by the lords of Biron in the 11th century.

File: Major's Hill Park 1909. jpg | The south end of Major's Hill in 1909, when the park still extended to Rideau Street and the Château Laurier had not yet been built

In the mid-seventeenth century, Château Haut-Brion became the first château of international renown, being praised by Samuel Pepys in 1663, while the Médoc was still swamp.

By 1573, Château Gaillard was uninhabited and in a ruinous state, but it was still believed that the castle posed a threat to the local population if it was repaired.

Bois de Bailleau-l ' Évêque ( fauna and flora ), the Château de Levesville ( end of 15th century ), the Château de Bailleau ( a 12th-century church ), several traditional farms in the Beauce region, and the remains of the Louis XIV canal, still in water and preserved.

This became Château Cheval Blanc which, in the International London and Paris Exhibitions in 1862 and 1867, won medals still prominent on its labels.

Even some of the larger château-forts such as the Château de Suscinio in Morbihan, still have a complete dovecote standing on the grounds, outside the moat and walls of the castle.

Today Malbec and Carmenere are rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines.

A large proportion of his brilliant achievement as a designer and chaser in bronze and other metals was executed for the crown at Versailles, Fontainebleau, Marly, Compiègne, Choisy and the Château de La Muette, and the crown, ever in his debt, still owed him money at his death.