In 1725 the duc d ' Antin, general director of the Bâtiments du Roi commissioned a pair of life-size marbles of Louis XV as Jupiter and Marie Leszczynska as Juno for the park of his château de Petit-Bourg, which adjoined the park of Versailles, to which it was added after the duke's death.

Upon arriving at Archduke Franz Ferdinand's country seat, château Konopiště, on a semi-official visit, they promptly proceeded to do away with one of the Austro-Hungarian heir presumptive's priceless golden pheasants, thereby almost causing an international incident.

This small château was the site of one of the historical events that took place during the reign of Louis XIII, on 10 November 1630, when, on the Day of the Dupes, the party of the queen mother was defeated and Richelieu was confirmed as prime minister.

Still owned by the Carvallo family, the Château de Villandry is open to the public and is one of the most visited châteaux in France ; in 2007 the château received about 330, 000 visitors.

The château was originally a fortified manor dating back to 1368 and, although amputated of one of its sides at the time of Napoleon I, it still retains its pentagonal bastioned footprint.

The image of the château has been widely used to sell commodities from chocolate to alcohol and from porcelain to alarm clocks ; combined with the various written accounts of visitors, this made Chambord one of the best known examples of France's architectural history.

The many discoveries made as one travels through the dynamic garden contrast the static view of the garden from the château.

Suites accompanied their seigneurial owners from one unheated and empty château to another.

* Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage – To prove her love, the protagonist submits to being kept in a château and abused by a group of men, one her official lover.

A regular feature was " Mike Flex's Master Quiz ", in which contestants typically had to answer one question correctly to win " a château in the Loire ".

The Château Frontenac was designed by American architect Bruce Price, as one of a series of " château " style hotels built for the Canadian Pacific Railway company ( aka CPR ) during the late 19th and early 20th centuries ; the newer portions of the hotel &# 151 ; including the central tower &# 151 ; were designed by William Sutherland Maxwell.

The château of Azay-le-Rideau was built from 1515 to 1527, one of the earliest French Renaissance châteaux.

The main criterion for inclusion is generally that the château must be sited on the Loire river or one of its tributaries ( such as the Maine, Cher, Indre, Creuse or Loir ).

On 5 May 1788, amidst general festivities, the Estates-General convened in an elaborate but temporary lle des États set up in one of the courtyards of the official Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs in the town of Versailles near the royal château.

:" There remains no trace within the current ruin of the first fortress which was abandoned before the 13th century ( Montsegur I ), nor of the one which was built by Raymond de Péreille around 1210 ( Montsegur II )..." ( Il ne reste aucune trace dans les ruines actuelles ni du premier château qui était à l ' abandon au début du XIIIe siècle ( Montségur I ), ni de celui que construisit Raimon de Pereilles vers 1210 ( Montségur II )...)

The estate's old château was torn down and completely rebuilt when Douat commissioned one of Bordeaux ' foremost architects, Guy-Louis Combes, to create the buildings in the First Empire style, the mansion for the Marquis to move into by 1812.

The next excavations in this area were conducted in 1966-8 by Francis Anfray, who uncovered a dwelling 250 meters west of Puglisi's trench that he described as a " château ", inhabited by one of the city's elite.

Owned by the Institut de France, the château houses the Musée Condé, which is one of the finest art galleries in France and is open to the public.

For example, in the Médoc part of Bordeaux, this terms means the château is one of the classified growths in the regions.

Porcelain flowers continued to provide the bulk of Vincennes sales: Mme de Pompadour, whose château de Bellevue was not far from the new site, made lavish purchases of them to decorate her rooms and d ' Argenson's anecdote of her receiving Louis XV there in a conservatory furnished in winter with perfumed porcelain flowers among those from the hothouse, is a familiar one ; the inventory after her death showed that she owned 46 decorative items decorated with porcelain flowers.

In his banks and public buildings, he preferred to use Italianate classical styles similar to those of Charles Barry-his design for Fettes College, Edinburgh was one of the first to revive the French château style.

The Château de Lucey ( Lucey, Savoie ) | château de Lucey was one of de Boigne's properties.

Antoon van Croy demolished the medieval castle and started works to build the current château in 1455 on the site, of which he destroyed all but one tower.

After the partitioning of the university along language lines in 1968, the château and grounds remained with the Dutch speaking half as one of the main campuses for the new, independent Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Talleyrand's château boasts one of the most advanced interiors of the Empire style anywhere.

The largest of Francis ' building projects was the reconstruction and expansion of the royal château of Fontainebleau, which quickly became his favourite place of residence, as well as the residence of his official mistress – Anne, duchess of Étampes.

In Canada, especially in English, château usually denotes a hotel, not a house, and applies only to the largest, most elaborate railway hotels built in the Canadian Railroad golden age, such as the Château Lake Louise, in Lake Louise, Alberta, the Château Laurier, in Ottawa, the Château Montebello, in Montebello, Quebec, and the most famous Château Frontenac, in Quebec City.

Chambord is the largest château in the Loire Valley ; it was built to serve as a hunting lodge for François I, who maintained his royal residences at Château de Blois and Château d ' Amboise.

He is perhaps best known for his role in bringing hydro-electricity to Toronto, Ontario for the first time, and also for his famous château, called Casa Loma, in Toronto, which was the largest private residence ever constructed in Canada.

Today part of the château is home to the Écoles d ' Art Américaines, a school of art, architecture, and music for students from the United States.

Once his château was complete, Baron Ferdinand installed his extensive collections of French 18th-century tapestries, boiseries, furniture and ceramics, English and Dutch paintings and Renaissance works of art.

Under financial duress, Caraman sold the château in 1860 to Ferdinand Moreau, who continued the restoration, purchasing furnishings and works of art that were thought to be originally from the château.

The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th century Europe.

The château, its park and outbuildings are among the last remaining examples of 18th century Bohemian country houses embedded in its original landscape without visible changes in the wake of industrialisation or subsequent destruction during the communist rule and belong to the most valuable historic estates in Central Europe.

Through his wars and the glory of Versailles, Louis became, to a certain degree, the arbiter of taste and power in Europe and both his château and the etiquette in Versailles were copied by the other European courts.

Through his wars and the glory of Versailles Louis became, to a certain degree, the arbiter of taste and power in Europe ; both his château and the etiquette in Versailles were copied by the other European courts.

As well as his military deeds, he also brought back American tulip trees ( offered him by Washington ), the first to be imported into Europe, and these are still to be seen at the château de Saint-Ouen-la-Rouërie.

Michelangelo's two Slaves were among the rich appointments of the château Richelieu, where there were the Nativity triptych by Dürer and paintings by Mantegna, Lorenzo Costa and Perugino, lifted from the Gonzaga collection at Mantua by French military forces in 1630, as well as numerous antiquities.

He installed an outstanding collection of tapestries and furnishings and bequeathed the château to the Institut de France which still owns it today.

The château is now considered a French historical monument and contains a collection of tapestry.

Depicting scenes from mythology, nymphs and cherubs, the collection is an informal contrast to the strong and robust lines of the French-style château.