Château de Chaumont

Coordinates: 47°28′45″N 1°10′55″E / 47.47917°N 1.18194°E / 47.47917; 1.18194
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This article is about the château in Chaumont-sur-Loire. It is not to be confused with Château de Chaumont-la-Guiche or Château de Chaumont (La Serre-Bussière-Vieille).

Château de Chaumont in 2008

The Château de Chaumont (French pronunciation:

Louis XI, the king ordered the castle's destruction. Later in the 15th century Château de Chaumont was rebuilt by Charles I d'Amboise. Protected as a monument historique
since 1840, the château was given into state ownership in 1938 and is now open to the public.

History

Château de Chaumont stands above the River Loire.

The name Chaumont derives from the French chauve mont, meaning "bald hill".

Norman
Gelduin received it, improved it and held it as his own. His great-niece Denise de Fougère, having married Sulpice d'Amboise, passed the château into the Amboise family for five centuries.

Pierre d'Amboise unsuccessfully rebelled against King

Louis XI and his property was confiscated, and the castle was dismantled on royal order in 1465.[3] It was later rebuilt by Charles I d'Amboise from 1465 to 1475 and then finished by his son, Charles II d'Amboise de Chaumont from 1498 to 1510, with help from his uncle, Cardinal Georges d'Amboise; some Renaissance features
were to be seen in buildings that retained their overall medieval appearance.

The château was acquired by

Catherine de Medici in 1550.[4] There she entertained numerous astrologers, among them Nostradamus. When her husband, Henry II, died in 1559 she forced his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to accept the Château de Chaumont in exchange for the Château de Chenonceau which Henry had given to de Poitiers.[5]
Diane de Poitiers only lived at Chaumont for a short while.

A staircase within the château

In 1594, at the death of Diane's granddaughter Charlotte de la Marck, the château passed to her husband, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, who sold it to a tax farmer Largentier, who had grown rich on gathering in the salt tax called the gabelle. Largentier eventually being arrested for peculation, the château and the title of sieur de Chaumont passed into a family originating at Lucca, who possessed it until 1667, when it passed by family connections to the seigneurs de Ruffignac.

maître des requêtes ordinaire
to Louis XV, Monsieur Bertin, who demolished the north wing built by Charles II d'Amboise and the Cardinal d'Amboise, to open the house towards the river view in the modern fashion.

In 1750,

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray purchased the castle as a country home where he established a glassmaking and pottery factory. He was considered by the French as a "Father of the American Revolution" because he loved America.[citation needed] However, in 1789, the new French Revolutionary
government seized Le Ray's assets, including his beloved Château de Chaumont.

Aerial view

château de Blois;[6] M. d'Aramon installed a museum of medieval arts in the "Tour de Catherine de Médicis". By 1851 the "Chaumont suite"[7] of the early-16th century Late Gothic tapestries with subjects of country life emblematic of the triumph of Eternity, closely associated with Chaumont and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was still hanging in the "Chambre de Catherine de Médicis"; the tapestries had been cut and pieced to fit the room.[8]

The castle has been designated as a

English naturalistic landscape fashion. She donated Château de Chaumont to the government in 1938.[10] The Château de Chaumont is currently a museum and every year hosts a Garden Festival from April to October where contemporary garden designers display their work in an English-style garden.[11][12]

Gallery

  • The chapel
    The chapel
  • Stables
    Stables
  • The castle seen from the garden
    The castle seen from the garden
  • Coat of arms of Louis XII
    Coat of arms of Louis XII
  • The floor of the lounge
    The floor of the lounge
  • Lounge of Prince de Broglie
    Lounge of Prince de Broglie
  • Château de Chaumont
    Château de Chaumont

See also

References

  1. ^ Blackie, Christina (1968), Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivations, Gale Research, p. 39
  2. ISBN 9780941434621
  3. ISBN 9780865650367
  4. ISBN 9780199768394
  5. ISBN 9780199768394
  6. ^ Françoise Boudon, "La correspondance de Duban ou les trois humeurs de l'architecte", in Félix Duban: les couleurs de l'architecte, 1798-1870, Bruno Foucart, ed., 2001:9; M. Melot and J. Melet-Sanson, Le Château de Chaumont, 1980.
  7. ^ Interlaced Cs on the château depicted in the tapestries, with the flaming mountain (chaud mont) emblem of Charles [d'Amboise] de Chaumont strengthen the traditional link with Chaumont (Dorothy G. Shepherd, "Three Tapestries from Chaumont", The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48.7 [September 1961:159-177], p. 165)
  8. ^ Shepherd 1961:163f; allegory identified, 172ff.
  9. ^ Base Mérimée: Domaine du château de Chaumont, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  10. ISBN 9780199768394
  11. ^ Official website.
  12. ^ "ArtPremium – A Spring Symphony". ArtPremium. 16 May 2017. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2018.

Further reading

  • Bosseboeuf, Louis Auguste (1906), Le Chateau de Chaumont dans l'historie et les arts (in French), A. Mame

External links

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