Charente

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Château de La Rochefoucauld

With its stacked galleries and great spiral staircase, traditionally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, La Rochefoucauld looks like a piece of the Loire Valley set down in the Charente. In the 16th century, François II de La Rochefoucauld, Francis I's comrade at Pavia, and his wife Anne de Polignac…