Château de Chémery

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de Chémery, in the Loir-et-Cher department, combines a medieval section to the west with a Renaissance section to the east, arranged around a rectangular courtyard surrounded by a moat, crossed by a drawbridge to the south and a wooden footbridge to the west. First mentioned in 1236 under Regnault de Chémery, it passed to the families of Chalon-Tonnerre, then Beauvilliers and La Roche-Aymon, the latter of whom converted it into a simple farm in 1729. Remaining in the La Roche-Aymon family until 1970, it was acquired that year by the writer Madeleine Lemaître, whose son, the artist Alain Souchon, lived there. Since 1981 it has belonged to the architect Axel Fontaine and his wife Cécile, who restored it. The château has been listed as a monument historique since 6 January 1926 and served as a setting for the television series Un gars, une fille.