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The Château de la Ferté is located in Amilly, near Conflans-sur-Loing, in the Loiret department. The site is mentioned as early as 1080 as a fortified house, or ‘ferté’, with a port on the Loing. The present château is an 18th-century hunting lodge, enlarged in 1804 and converted into a classical residence. Its façade has two rows of six windows, a projecting pavilion on the courtyard side, and a horseshoe-shaped external staircase on the park side. Half-timbered outbuildings and two successive courtyards, reached by an avenue of plane trees, complete the ensemble. The terraced park overlooks the Briare Canal and the Loing valley; an old lime tree there is labelled Arbre remarquable de France. From July to October 1954, Habib Bourguiba was placed under house arrest here by the government of Pierre Mendès France, and discussions on Tunisian autonomy were held at the château. No protection under the monuments historiques designation has been identified. It should not be confused with the Château de La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, also in the Loiret.