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Le château en bref
The Château de la Chaussière stands in the commune of Vieure, in the Allier, north-east of the village, on a height overlooking the road to Ygrande and the surrounding bocage. It was built between 1875 and 1878 on the initiative of Théodore Riant (1832-1901), from a Parisian family of ironmasters, who wanted a modern residence with an open panorama after his marriage to Amélie Marcilly in 1865. The construction was entrusted to the architect Alfred Coulomb, a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who used modern techniques such as metal beams and concrete for the floors and roof frames. The building combines Gothic Revival and Neo-Renaissance styles with Louis XIII decorative elements, associating brick, stone and slate. It has a bartizan, a chapel with a pentagonal apse pierced by pointed-arch windows, and a spiral staircase inspired by medieval models. The landscaped park surrounding it was designed by the landscape gardener François-Marie Treyve, mixing local and exotic species. The château has been listed as a historic monument since 21 May 2007, together with its entire interior decoration, furniture, chapel and outbuildings. Privately owned, it opens to the public in the summer season.
