Jacques Coeur Palace

The Jacques-Heart Palace is a mansion located in Bourges, considered through the beauty of its architecture, the richness and style of its ornament, as one of the most sumptuous civil buildings of the 15th century and a masterpiece of civil architecture of flamboyant Gothic style. This constructing was born from the desire of the rich service provider Jacques Coeur to construct a "huge residence" in his homeland, however the financier of Charles VII in no way lived there.

Built in the 15th century foreshadows the mansions so as to flower within the Renaissance. This palace is the difficulty of a category as ancient monuments through the listing of 1840. Owned via the State given that 1923, it's miles managed, animated and open to visitors by means of the National Monument Center. In 1443, Jacques Heart offered 1200 crowns the stronghold of the floor 3, land of 5000 m 2 that belonged to Giovanni Bellini, canon of the Sainte-Chapelle in Bourges, and two neighboring houses that dominated the metropolis on a hundred meters four.

The production of the Hotel de l. A. Chaussee, which fee 100,000 gold crowns, started the equal year and appears to had been finished in 1453, when Jacques Coeur fell out of style in 1451, imprisoned until 1454, earlier than to get away and to take refuge within the Greek island of Chios, where he died in 1456. The palace was confiscated, with all its furniture, through King Charles VII, who changed into jealous, and through the crown.