Chateau de Chazelet is a fortified castle surrounded by a moat, flanked by five round towers and a square tower with loopholes and battlements. The world's first reinforced concrete bridge spans the moat - AsNotedIn
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| 1540/00/00 | Francois Pot, Lord of Chazelet, obtains from the Lord of Chateauroux the right to build a castle in Chazellet like a fortress, with ditches and drawbridge. Pot, married to the daughter of Renier de Lage, builds his castle on the site of an old one. | |||||
| 1789/05/18 | The Marquise de Douhault, owner of Chateau de Chazelet, dies in Orleans after having smoked tobacco. The mysterious affair of the Marquise de Douhault may have inspired Wilkie Collins in writing "The Woman In White". | The Woman in White | ||||
| 1854/00/00 | Alexandre Dumas | Visitor | Alexandre Dumas is a guest at Chateau de Chazelet where the Count of Tilieres gives him a silk and silver tapestry representing the woman with the unicorn. Alexandre Dumas will sell this tapestry to Victor Hugo a few years later. | |||
| 1865/00/00 | Alfred Dauvergne | Architect | In the 1860s, the Alfred Dauvergne modernizes the 15th century castle for Count Taupinart de Tiliere. | |||
| 1872/00/00 | Alexandre Dumas | Author | Written in Brussels in 1852, "The Mysterious Doctor" by Alexandre Dumas and Henri-Francois-Alphonse Esquiros is published. The novel is set at the Chateau de Chazelet. | |||
| 1872/00/00 | Alexandre Dumas | Author | "The Daughter of the Marquis" by Alexandre Dumas and Henri-Francois-Alphonse Esquiros is published. Written in Brussels in 1852, the novel takes place at the Chateau de Chazelet. |
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| Monier Bridge |
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