Milly-le-Meugon
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Milly-le-Meugon is a village now attached to the city of Gennes, Maine-et-Loire department, France. It is also the site of a castle, which also belonged to the Maillé-Brézé family, a notable family of the French nobility with close ties to King Louis XIII's powerful minister, the Cardinal Richelieu, and to King Louis XIV's first cousin le Grand Condé.
Overview
[edit]Among this family's best-known members are Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé and her brother, Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, grand maître de la navigation (an equivalent to Grand Admiral). Their father, Urbain de Maillé-Brézé, 2nd marquis de Brézé and Marshal of France, had married Richelieu's sister. Claire-Clémence married the Grand Condé, thus becoming a French princess. Her brother, the duke of Fronsac, was one of the most heroic figures of the time; both of them were born at Milly. The duke of Fronsac is buried with his father in the church of Milly.
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The whole precincts of the castle are classified as monument historique (historical national monument): the ruined medieval keep and walls (inner bailey) date from the 13th-14th centuries. The outer bailey main gate (partially rusticated in vermiculated fashion), the monumental stable and walls were all erected during the French Renaissance; the later castle main building, in Italian Renaissance style (with its gate of honor), dates partly from the late 16th century, but was completely reshaped in 1835 by a German architect, Svenberg.
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Faucou, Anne & Hilaire, Héloïse (2000) Le Curé des fleurs: l'abbé Souillet, de Milly. [Le Coudray-Macouard]: Cheminements