Château d'Ussé

Ussé is a castle in the

, who rebuilt it in stone.

In the fifteenth century, the ruined castle of Ussé was purchased by

style is mixed with new Renaissance motifs, and began the process of rebuilding the fifteenth-century château that resulted in the sixteenth-seventeenth century aspect of the structure to be seen today.

In the seventeenth century Louis I de Valentinay, comptroller of the

, who visited Ussé on numerous occasions.

Charles Perrault, author of the versions of several of the most famous fairy tales known today, often visited the castle and was a guest there. He had the castle of Ussé in mind when writing "The Sleeping Beauty".^[1]

Later, the castle passed to the

.

In 1885 the comtesse de la Rochejaquelein bequeathed Ussé to her great-nephew, the comte de Blacas. Today the château belongs to his descendant Casimir de Blacas d' Aulps the 7th Duke of Blacas.[3]

Famed for its picturesque aspect, Ussé was the subject of a French railroad poster issued by the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans in the 1920s^[4] and was one of several that inspired Walt Disney in the creation of many of the Disney Castles.

Ussé was classified as a

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  Charles Perrault's
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  The Sleeping Beauty
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See also

• List of castles in France

Notes

1. ^ "Château d'Ussé - Press release (FR)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.
2. ^ A. de Beauchamps, Histoire des campagnes de 1814-1815 (Paris, 1817), vol. II:44, noted in E. J. Knapton, "Some Aspects of the Bourbon Restoration of 1814" The Journal of Modern History 6.4 (December 1934:405-424) p. 408 note 13.
3. ^ Loire Valley Sites Review - Château d'Ussé Review, Fodor's, retrieved 8 November 2012
4. ^ William Leonard Schwartz, "How to Get the Railway Posters of France", The Modern Language Journal, 11.7 (April 1927:452-455) p. 454.
5. ^ Base Mérimée: PA00098034, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Château d'Ussé.

• Château d'Ussé website
• Château d'Ussé
• Un entretien avec le propriétaire du Château d'Ussé Stanislas de Blacas (en anglais)

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