Situé entre Valençay et Chateauroux, le château, entouré de douves, se découvre au sein d'un domaine de 34 hectares, constitué d'un jardin ordonnancé prolongé par la forêt, et de bâtiments témoins d'une vie domaniale autarcique. Cet ouvrage en propose un historique ainsi qu'un panorama de l'architecture et des décorations des nombreuses pièces. ©Electre 2024
« Bussy is not a grandiose residence, but it is magnificently built and the interiors are of a singular beauty, the likes of which are not to be found elsewhere. » Such were the proud terms in which the Count Roger de Bussy-Rabutin described his chateau. He was a lively and witty man, a writer who was a member of the Académie française and who, with his cousin Madame de Sévigné, invented the literary genre known as « rabutinages ». But the audacity and ferocity of his texts got him into trouble with Louis XIV who exiled him to his home in Burgundy. He had revealed too much about the affairs of some of the ladies at court in his book Histoire amoureuse des Gaules. Banned from court, abandoned by his mistress but ever the rebel, Bussy devised an intriguing form of revenge. He had some three hundred portraits painted, each accompanied by an eloquent inscription, an enigmatic emblem, or an impertinent motto. These recreate something of Bussy's own lost universe and survive today as a remarkable testimony to the spirit of the age of Louis XIV.
Paru le : 03/09/2007
Thématique : Autres réalisations architecturales Architecture Renaissance - Classique et Baroque
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Judith Kagan
Éditeur(s) :
Editions du patrimoine
Collection(s) : Itinéraires du patrimoine
Contributeur(s) : Traducteur : Paul Smith
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-85822-887-4
EAN13 : 9782858228874
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 63
Hauteur: 23.0 cm / Largeur 12.0 cm
Épaisseur: 0.5 cm
Poids: 138 g
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