Château de Chambord
The castle of Chambord is held in a few miles of Blois, in the Sologne. Palate emblematic of the first French Rebirth, the castle of François 1st constitutes today a stage impossible to circumvent in the circuit of the Loire château.
It is in the middle of a vast giboyeuse forest, punt and muddy, often embrumée, that this white and unreal palate emerges from the marshes. The plan of the building is that of a strong castle of plain. It comprises a vast rectangular enclosure, confined round towers, on a side of which a keep sets up. This last has colossal proportions, and constitutes with him only the almost whole castle. The unit releases however a deep feeling of majesty, and the geometrical clearness of the plan, the harmony of the proportions and the imagination of its roofs roughcast of turrets, chimneys and attic windows vertiginous were, through the centuries, as many sources of amazement. According to Alfred de Vigny, “… one hardly conceives how the plans were traced… it is a dream carried out”.
1800 workmen, says one, worked with the construction of Chambord, since 1519 and during more than thirty years. If shade of Léonard de Vinci - friend of the king and official “architector” who died a few months before the opening of the building site - plane on the astonishing staircase with double revolution, one does not know however the author of this strange residence, at the same time extraordinary and uninhabitable. Sovereigns and Européens ambassadors admired it, and remained confused about it. François 1st, who dreamed some, spent only a few weeks there, leaving it vacuum of pieces of furniture and inhabitants after each passage and, finally, unfinished…
Is it thus necessary to see there the will of king de France, vis-a-vis Charles Quint and Henri VIII of England, to impose itself in changing Europe, a given image of the centralization of the capacity which is established then?If Henri II (1519-1559) continued a few times work of them, those were finished only under the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715), who liked this prestigious place at the point to make there several punctuated stays of huntings, ballets and the stage performances of Molière.
Although seldom inhabited thereafter, it preserved a function symbolic system, representing what an absolute capacity could do as regards construction useless, born only imagination and good pleasure of the sovereign. Chambord became then the prestigious “gift” and the residence whose in various ways the dukes of Orleans at the XVIIème century profited; Stanislas Leczcinski, beautiful father of Louis XV and king de Pologne in exile, and the Maurice marshal of Saxony at the XVIIIème century and, with the XIXème century, the Berthier marshal then the duke of Bordeaux, become count de Chambord.
State-owned property since 1932, this mythical building accomodates today more than 800.000 visitors per annum.
It is in the middle of a vast giboyeuse forest, punt and muddy, often embrumée, that this white and unreal palate emerges from the marshes. The plan of the building is that of a strong castle of plain. It comprises a vast rectangular enclosure, confined round towers, on a side of which a keep sets up. This last has colossal proportions, and constitutes with him only the almost whole castle. The unit releases however a deep feeling of majesty, and the geometrical clearness of the plan, the harmony of the proportions and the imagination of its roofs roughcast of turrets, chimneys and attic windows vertiginous were, through the centuries, as many sources of amazement. According to Alfred de Vigny, “… one hardly conceives how the plans were traced… it is a dream carried out”.
1800 workmen, says one, worked with the construction of Chambord, since 1519 and during more than thirty years. If shade of Léonard de Vinci - friend of the king and official “architector” who died a few months before the opening of the building site - plane on the astonishing staircase with double revolution, one does not know however the author of this strange residence, at the same time extraordinary and uninhabitable. Sovereigns and Européens ambassadors admired it, and remained confused about it. François 1st, who dreamed some, spent only a few weeks there, leaving it vacuum of pieces of furniture and inhabitants after each passage and, finally, unfinished…
Is it thus necessary to see there the will of king de France, vis-a-vis Charles Quint and Henri VIII of England, to impose itself in changing Europe, a given image of the centralization of the capacity which is established then?If Henri II (1519-1559) continued a few times work of them, those were finished only under the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715), who liked this prestigious place at the point to make there several punctuated stays of huntings, ballets and the stage performances of Molière.
Although seldom inhabited thereafter, it preserved a function symbolic system, representing what an absolute capacity could do as regards construction useless, born only imagination and good pleasure of the sovereign. Chambord became then the prestigious “gift” and the residence whose in various ways the dukes of Orleans at the XVIIème century profited; Stanislas Leczcinski, beautiful father of Louis XV and king de Pologne in exile, and the Maurice marshal of Saxony at the XVIIIème century and, with the XIXème century, the Berthier marshal then the duke of Bordeaux, become count de Chambord.
State-owned property since 1932, this mythical building accomodates today more than 800.000 visitors per annum.
posted by titzu at 10:04 AM
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I traveled to Chambord last week, it was an incredible experience. It really shocks by the architectural structure and the royal power. The rooftop terrace and the double-helix staircase astonished me.
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