History of the Castle :
There was a castle in Chambord - undoubtedly a fortress before 1518, property of the Counts De Blois. King François 1st (1515-1547) adored the place and decided to make there build a sumptuous residence as from 1519. The most prestigious architects considered this project, the first of which famous Leonardo de Vinci. The pharaonic construction site begins with the construction of the central part called "donjon".
In an astonishing paradox, whereas its treasure was permanently dry, the expensive sovereign hardly haggled over the expenditure when it was a question of embellishing Chambord. He thought even a moment of diverting the course of the Loire (with four kilometres from there!) To bring water to the foot of its stone dream. Undoubtedly dissuaded by his engineers, one was satisfied to deviate one of his small affluent, nearer and less capricious: Cosson. Work continued during all the reign of the prince to the salamander. They were stopped only in 1524 and 1525, His son Henri II continued paternal work, but the castle of Chambord was never completed. The palate passed then with hands in hands to the liking of the royal will. Louis XV his father-in-law Stanislas Leszcynski Chambord was last once mixed with the History with our country after the French defeat with 1870-1871 successively granted it and the fall of the Second Worsens the State repurchased Chambord and its field with the heirs to the count Henri, in 1930.

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