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The Château de Maubranche, in Moulins-sur-Yèvre (Cher), stands on a seigneury attested as early as the 12th century. Jacques Cœur, treasurer (argentier) to Charles VII, acquired it in 1451, and in 1470 Louis XI authorised the construction of a fortified house (enclosure, moats, drawbridge, towers, arrow slits, watch turrets, crenellations). The château underwent a siege in 1591, during which two towers were lost, before being restored and remodelled after 1596. Between 1888 and 1914, the architect Ernest Sanson modernised it in a classical style and had a gatehouse and stables built, while the landscape architects Henri and Achille Duchêne created a French formal garden (boulingrin, parterres, tapis vert, water organ), adorned with statues by the sculptors Félix de Chaumont-Quitry and Marie-Antoinette Demagnez. The château is listed as a historic monument (inscription, 2013) and its 90-hectare park is included in the supplementary inventory.