The entrance gallery
The ground floor has a superb gallery with seven arches on one side and
on the other, a series of reception rooms. The floors are covered with ancient
flagstones and the formal drawing room has a Versailles parquet floor with a
“rose des vents” design. All the reception rooms have Renaissance fireplaces.
The office with private entrance
The ceilings have beams and some are magnificently painted.
The television room walls silk
The walls of the whole house are covered with beautiful materials from
Braquenier or P.Frey or silks made specially in Lyons for the Château.
The Chinese living room
Six main reception rooms, one of them with the Versailles parquet
flooring: a dining room, a “Chinese” sitting room (with a guest toilet in a tower), a television room and an office.
Powder room
The large living room
Versailles parquet floor with a “rose des vents” design. All the
reception rooms have Renaissance fireplaces.
The ground floor has a superb gallery with seven arches on one side and
on the other, a series of reception rooms. The floors are covered with ancient
flagstones and the formal drawing room has a Versailles parquet floor with a
“rose des vents” design. All the reception rooms have Renaissance fireplaces.
The formal dining room
The kitchen
A large kitchen (part of it in a tower), a large pantry, and a hunt
(sitting) room with an exit. In this room, there is a trapdoor in the floor
(hydraulically operated) leading to the 12th century cellar and
underground passages.
The antique oven special design for Bussiere!
The foyer
Renaissance door
The family room- salle de chasse
Trapdoor in the floor (hydraulically operated) leading to the 12th
century cellar and underground passages.
The very old part of the chateau 1234, cave
There are also stairs leading to a two-roomed apartment with a
kitchenette, shower and toilet, for the staff.
In the basement, there is a boiler-room with two huge Wissman boilers, a linen-room, toilet and exit.
Water comes entirely from three wells connected to a source dating back to the Middle Ages.
In the basement, there is a boiler-room with two huge Wissman boilers, a linen-room, toilet and exit.
Water comes entirely from three wells connected to a source dating back to the Middle Ages.
The formal stairs in the chapel
In the 19th century, the chapel in which the famous French
author Alfred de Vigny was christened, was transformed into a white-stone main
stairway which leads to the first floor, to the gallery that has a marble floor
with various patterns “à l’italienne” and bedrooms on one side.
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