Château d'Ussé, Loire Valley

The tradition maintained at Ussé is that this was the castle Charles Perrault had in mind when writing "The Sleeping Beauty"


In the fifteenth century, the ruined castle of Ussé was purchased by a captain-general of Charles VII who began rebuilding it in the 1440s.

In 1612, the new owner, Jacques d’Espinay, son of a chamberlain to the Duke of Brittany and himself chamberlain to the king began the process of rebuilding the fifteenth-century château that resulted in the sixteenth-seventeenth century aspect of the structure to be seen today.

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