Private Tour of a Renaissance Treasure in Auvergne: Château de Messilhac
A drawer where children sat at meals, a dovecote hidden in a keep and wooden floors that have been temporary for five centuries.
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Olivier Dubois
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Above the second floor, the carved staircase stops dead and everything turns to wood: since the 16th century, makeshift floors have waited for stonework that never came. Olivier Dubois, owner since 1998, leads the tour of this house in the Carladès, from the Renaissance facade dated 1531 up to the chestnut roof frame.
Along the way, he opens the dovecote set inside a keep, with its revolving ladder, the kitchen and its drawer where children were seated, and the room where Queen Margot is said to have stayed in 1585-1586, whose wall paintings were made during the shoot of Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier.
