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Le château en bref
Lésigny Castle, in Seine-et-Marne, was begun as early as 1508 by Louis de Poncher, secretary and treasurer to Francis I, who had a Renaissance residence built to replace the old moated medieval castle. Acquired in 1613 by Léonora Dori, it was confiscated in 1617 after the assassination of Concino Concini and granted to Charles d'Albert, favourite of Louis XIII. Damaged by fighting during the Fronde, it lost its towers in 1794 and was sold as national property in 1798. It retains elements of the former chapel, was restored in the 1960s and 1990s, and forms part of a 17th-century park that was truncated by the Francilienne.