The Château de Petit-Bois is a 19th-century mansion in
Cosne-d'Allier
Cosne-d'Allier (; oc, Còse) is a commune in the Allier department in central France.
Population
Sights
* Château de Petit-Bois
See also
*Communes of the Allier department
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in the
Allier
Allier ( , , ; oc, Alèir) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that borders Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire to the east, Puy-de-Dôme to the south, and Creuse to the south-west. Named afte ...
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Auvergne
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The château was noted for the design of the park, which by the use of an artificial channel and a screen of trees, gave it the appearance of standing on an island. Its former grounds have been destroyed, however.
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''Summed up and translated from the equivalent article at French Wikipédia, 6 November 2007''
Houses completed in the 19th century
Châteaux in Allier
19th-century architecture in France
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