Ancien château

English translation

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History

In lower Berry, Renaissance architecture was implanted by a group of noble and well-to-do families, more or less involved in the Italian wars. These Berry châteaux are closely related to the so-called Loire châteaux. This is a former manor-house converted into a farm, with machicolated corner tower and residential building regularly divided by pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The château occupies the extremity of a promontory whose extremity is isolated by a ditch. The land is entirely surrounded by defensive walls. A stone bridge, which replaces the old drawbridge, leads to the old postern which is flanked on its left by the old rectangular keep crowned with machicolations. Attached to the keep is found the main residential building, comprising a central pavilion flanked by two wings. Facing this dwelling, the courtyard is bordered by outbuildings. At the extremity of the outbuildings, a round tower outside the enclosure wall forms a second keep. Other towers flanked the circular or square ramparts, of which only the bases remain.