Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison dite de Rabelais
Langeais, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les façades et toitures sur rue : inscription par arrêté du 16 septembre 1943
- Protection dates
- 1943/09/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 26 rue Gambetta ; place Pierre-de-Brosse
- Commune
- Langeais
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.32499, 0.40652
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097800
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Selon la tradition, Rabelais aurait habité dans cette maison. La façade est ornée de pilastres cannelés à chapiteaux Renaissance. Les fenêtres avaient autrefois des meneaux.
English translation
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History
According to tradition, Rabelais is said to have lived in this house. The façade is decorated with fluted pilasters with Renaissance capitals. The windows formerly had mullions.
Nearby in the register
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- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptisteégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.