Château de Chambord (Loir-et-Cher) - Façade Septentrionale

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A postally unused carte postale published by Lévy et Neurdein Réunis, 44, Rue Letellier, Paris.

Chambord

The Royal Château de Chambord is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its French Renaissance architecture. The building, which was never completed, was built by King Francis 1 of France.

Chambord, which was built between 1519 and 1547, is the largest château in the Loire Valley.

In 1782, after the French Revolution, some of the furnishings were sold and timber removed.  It was then left abandoned until restoration in the 19th. century.

The château has 440 rooms, 282 fireplaces, and 84 staircases. There are also more than 800 sculpted columns and 128 metres of façade.

The roofscape of Chambord has often been compared with the skyline of a town. There are eleven types of tower and three types of chimney, without symmetry, framed at the corners by the massive towers.

Chambord influenced William Henry Crossland in his design of the Founder's Building at Royal Holloway, University of London. The Founder's Building features very similar towers and layout but was built using red bricks.

The centrepiece of the château is a spectacular open double staircase. Two spirals ascend the three floors without ever meeting. The writer John Evelyn wrote that: 

'...the staircase consists of 274 steps, 
and is an extraordinary work, but of 
far greater expense than use or beauty'.

Chambord is surrounded by a 13,000 acre wooded park with red deer, enclosed by a 31 kilometre (20 mile) wall.

Taken on: May 6, 2018

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