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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHAMBORD

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 823 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CHAMBORD , a
village
  of central France, in the department of Loir-et-Cher, on the left bank of the Cosson, ro m. E. by N. of Blois by road. The
village
  stands in the park of Chambord, which is enclosed by a
wall
  21 M. in circumference. The celebrated chateau (see ARCHITECTURE: Renaissance Architecture in France) forms a parallelogram flanked at the angles by round towers and enclosing a square
block
  of buildings, the facade of which forms the centre of the main front. The profusion of turrets, pinnacles, and
dormer
  windows which decorates the roof of this, the
chief
  portion of the chateau, constitutes the main feature of the exterior, while in the interior are a well-preserved chapel of the 16th century and a famous double staircase, the construction of which permits two people to ascend and descend respectively without seeing one another. There are 440 apartments, containing pictures of the 17th century and souvenirs of the comte de Chambord. The cb~tcauwas originally a hunting-box of the counts of Blois, the rebuilding of which was begun by Francis I. in 1526, and completed under Henry II. It was the residence of several succeeding monarchs, and under Louis XIV. considerable alterations were made. In the same reign
CHAMELEON
  8 2 3
Moliere performed Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme for the first time in the theatre. Stanislaus, king of Poland, lived at Chambord, which was bestowed by his son-in-law, Louis XV., upon Marshal Saxe. It was given by
Napoleon
  to Marshal Berthier, from whose widow it was purchased by subscription in 1821, and presented to the duc de Bordeaux, the representative of the older branch of the Bourbons, who assumed from it the title of comte de Chambord. On his death in 1883 it came by bequest into the possession of the family of Parma.


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