Saint-Aignan Castle

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Le château en bref

Saint-Aignan Castle overlooks the town of Saint-Aignan, in the Loir-et-Cher department, on a fortified rocky spur that was built in the 11th century by the Count of Blois to counter the ambitions of Fulk Nerra. Granted to Geoffrey of Donzy in the 12th century, it then passed to the powerful Husson family, who made it the seat of the first barony of Blois. It subsequently belonged to the Beauvilliers family (elevated to duchy-peerage in 1663), then to the Talleyrand-Périgord, Choiseul-Daillecourt and Mérode families, and finally to the La Roche-Aymon family, who still own it today. Listed as a monument historique since 30 July 1946, it now operates as a guest house.