Sagonne · Cher
Mansart’s perspective and gardens at Sagonne
When Jules Hardouin-Mansart bought Sagonne in 1699, he pulled down the eastern curtain walls of the medieval fortress to open a perspective, and remodelled the surroundings with plantations and gardens.
From the source
Château de Sagonne is a château at Sagonne, Cher, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 14th, 15th, 16th and 18th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
A fortress of the house of Sancerre raised in the fourteenth century to control the road from Bourges to Sancoins, improved by the Babou family after 1546, Sagonne was substantially altered by Mansart in the early eighteenth century and dismantled at the Revolution. The record notes that the enceinte originally had eight towers and two gates, and that to open a perspective Mansart destroyed the curtains on the east side and reshaped the approaches by creating plantations and gardens. Four towers with battered bases still stand in the moats; the ruins were classified in 1914.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00096871 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chateau%20de%20Sagonne%2001.jpg — CC BY 2.0
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