Château de Briantes

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Le château en bref

Château de Briantes, in the Indre, combines an older restored pavilion with a more recent one, joined by a prismatic tower of about 30 metres housing a spiral staircase (15th–16th centuries). The estate retains a 15th-century dovecote of some 2,500 pigeonholes, considered one of the finest in the region. In the 13th–14th centuries, it belonged to the families de Garet and then de Malval; Pierre-Philippe de Cluis bequeathed it in 1569 to Jean de Bourbon-Busset, before it passed to the barons of La Châtre (1572–1589), Jacques Le Groing and, in 1740, Nicolas-Pardoux de Villaines. Converted into a farm after the Revolution, it was restored in the 19th century and then bought in 1910 by the historian and numismatist Adrien Blanchet, who lived there until his death. George Sand used it as the setting for ‘Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré’.