The Château de la Bastie d'Urfé (also known as Bastie d'Urfé or Bâtie d’Urfé) is a French

château A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions. Nowaday ...

in the town of

Saint-Étienne-le-Molard Saint-Étienne-le-Molard (; frp, Sant-Ètièven-lo-Molâr) is a commune in the Loire department in central France. Geography The river Lignon du Forez flows through the commune. Population See also *Communes of the Loire department The fol ...

, historically within the province of

Forez Forez is a former province of France, corresponding approximately to the central part of the modern Loire ''département'' and a part of the Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme ''départements''. The final "z" in Forez () is not pronounced in the Loire ...

. In the 16th century it was rebuilt in the Renaissance style by

Claude d'Urfé Claude d'Urfé (1501, château de la Bastie d'Urfé-1558) was a French royal official of the 16th century. He acted as governor and bailiff of Forez after that county became a royal domain. He was a friend and confidant of Francis I and fought alon ...

and bought in 1836 by Caroline de Lagrange (1806-1870), daughter of count

Joseph Lagrange Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangiaintarsia Intarsia is a form of wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. The start of the practice dates from before the seventh century AD. The technique of intarsia inlays sections of wood (at times with contrasting ivory or bone, or mother-of-pear ...

panelling of the 16th-century chapel is at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20150315024257/http://www.ladiana.com/Monuments/labatie.html *http://labastie.chez-alice.fr/ Castles in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Forez Monuments historiques of Loire (department) Maisons des Illustres {{France-castle-stub