FRANCE Château de Chenonceau is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, Loire Valley.
The Château de Chenonceau is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme. Catherine de' Medici's bedroom Bedroom of Catherine de Medici. This bedroom contains 16th-century sculpted furniture and is decorated with a series of 16th-century Flemish tapestries retracing Samson's life. They are remarkable for their edges filled with animals symbolising proverbs and fables, for example the fable of The Crayfish and the Oyster or Skill is greater than Cunning. The chimney and the floor tiles are Renaissance. To the right of the bed The teaching of Love by Correggio painted on wood, of which the London National Gallery has a version painted on canvas
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