English château

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Le château en bref

The French term « château anglais » improperly translates the generic English term country house (literally: country residence). These are more or less large residences, surrounded by a pleasure garden, ancestral properties of great families (titled or not) who also generally owned a townhouse in London (Townhouse (en)). These residences, principal or secondary, seats of power of aristocrats or great landowners (landed gentry) who, until the first third of the 19th century, drew their income from their lands and governed rural England, are described in French as manoirs, châteaux, gentilhommières.