
The Château de Vigny is a
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.
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in the commune of
Vigny,
Val d'Oise
Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674. , France. It was built in 1504 on the site of a mediaeval structure for Cardinal
Georges d'Amboise
Georges d'Amboise (1460 – May 25, 1510) was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and minister of state. He belonged to the house of Amboise, a noble family possessed of considerable influence: of his nine brothers, four were bishops. His father ...
, with substantial alterations in the 1880s in the
troubadour style
Taking its name from medieval troubadours, the Troubadour Style (french: Style troubadour) is a rather derisive term, in English usually applied to French historical painting of the early 19th century with idealised depictions of the Middle Ages a ...
for its then owner, Comte Philippe Vitali, Prince of Sant'Eusebio. It was entered ("inscrit") as a
monument historique in 1984.
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References
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Further reading
* Claude Danis, 2002: ''Châteaux et manoirs en Val d'Oise'', pp. 88–89. Editions du Valhermeil: Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône
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Châteaux in Val-d'Oise
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