Category: History - European

The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 10, October 1900 The Château of Chambord: France; Louis XVI. Sconces

The Château of Chambord is one of the most unique palaces of the Renaissance in existence. "It is," writes Jules Loiseleur, "the Versailles of the feudal monarchy; and was to the Château of Blois, that central residence of the Valois, what Versailles was to the Tuilleries,--th...