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Château du Moulin Château de Chambord Chantilly, France: château château of the dukes of Anjou Château at Chambord, France, design attributed to Bernabei Domenico da Cortona, executed by Pierre Nepveu, 1519–47. Château de Chambord Château de Chenonceaux Château in Azay-le-Rideau, France. Château of Langeais, in the Loire valley, west-central France. Villandry
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Château du Moulin
Château de Chambord
Chantilly, France: château
château of the dukes of Anjou
Château at Chambord, France, design attributed to Bernabei Domenico da Cortona, executed by Pierre Nepveu, 1519–47.
Château de Chambord
Château de Chenonceaux
Château in Azay-le-Rideau, France.
Château of Langeais, in the Loire valley, west-central France.
Villandry
Explore the Loire River valley and behold the Gothic cathedral of Orléans and the region's historic châteaux
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Mansart, François: Château of Maisons
François Mansart
French architect
The Director's Pavillion, salt mines at Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, Fr., by Ledoux, 1773–75
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
French architect
Le Nôtre, André
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect
Paris: Place de la Concorde
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
French architect
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine
French architect
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
Jacques Lemercier
French architect
Dôme des Invalides, Paris
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
French architect
Brosse, Salomon de: Palais du Luxembourg
Salomon de Brosse
French architect
Hector-Martin Lefuel
French architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect
Pierre Lescot, marble portrait bust by Julie Charpentier, 1814; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Pierre Lescot
French architect
Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Pierre Fontaine
French architect

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