Pays de la Loire

Pays de la Loire

Château du Lude

A Hundred Years' War fortress turned pleasure palace by the Daillon family, Le Lude gained a Louis XVI wing and then Renaissance Revival interiors in the 19th century. It towers over the Loir valley in the Sarthe, above its terraced gardens. It is one of the last great châteaux of the Loire still…

Pays de la Loire

Château de Lassay

Lassay is nothing but towers linked by ramparts: a 15th-century fortress built to hold the borderlands of Maine against Normandy and Brittany, and handed down almost intact. Its artillery bulwark, shaped like a ship's prow and exceptionally well preserved, still guards the only entrance. Bought…

Pays de la Loire

Château de La Chevallerie

Carved paneling on every floor and Versailles parquet all the way to the top, a rarity even in grand houses: that is what convinced the designer Timothy Corrigan to buy La Chevallerie in 2018, after visiting more than fifty châteaux. An 18th-century main house flanked by towers and 17th-century…

Pays de la Loire

Château de Briord

Left for nearly a century without modernization, Briord has kept the 1770 paneling described in its Revolutionary inventory, the tower of the comte Pelet de Lautrec and the Belle Époque fancies of shipowner Jean-Baptiste Étienne, from a Chinese bedroom to a painted hunting room. The château stands…

Pays de la Loire

Château de Brissac

Left unfinished since the second duke abruptly stopped his father's building work in the early 17th century, Brissac pairs two medieval towers with a seven-story palace said to be the tallest château in France. This giant of Anjou, in the Loire Valley, keeps its painted and gilded ceilings, the…

Pays de la Loire

Château de Serrant

Two centuries of building, from 1539 to the 1710s, never broke Serrant's unity: the Bautru family faithfully extended the Brie family's Renaissance tufa facades, around medieval moats still in water. Spared by the French Revolution, this château in Anjou keeps the collections of its successive…