Chateau de Valencay

Chateau de Valencay is a residence of the de-Estampes and Talleyrand Perigord households within the commune of Valencay, the Indre branch of France. Although geographically, it is a part of the province of Berry, its structure invitations comparison with the Renaissance chateaux of the Loire Valley, significantly the Chateau de Chambord. The manor became praised as one of the maximum lovely on earth thruough George Sand, who additionally noted that no king has owned an extra picturesque park. It is at an elevation of 135m.

The chateau, sited at the brink of a plateau that overlooks the little Nahon River, have become built on a royal scale through the de-Estampes own family of financiers over a duration of a few 200 years. Construction started out in 1540 at the behest of Jacques d Estampes in vicinity of the demolished 12^th century citadel and end up now not completed till the 18th century, whilst the south tower modified into delivered. The 18^th century saw a fast succession of proprietors, consisting of the infamous Scottish banker John Law, who bought the property in 1719.