Château de Meung-sur-Loire

Castle Meung -sur -Loire Loire is a castle in the town of Meung -sur -Loire in the Loiret of the Centre region of France, about 20 kilometers west of Orléans.

Castle Meung -sur -Loire is situated in the center of town on a small hill overlooking the Loire. Originally there was a medieval castle that was in 1101, besieged by Louis VI. , The thicknesses and remained Meung over several generations of the family. The last of the line was Jean de Meung, who through his continuation and termination of the begun by Guillaume de Lorris Rosenromans ( Roman de la Rose) was known.

From 12th to 18th century the castle served as the residence of the bishops of Orléans. During the Hundred Years War, the British occupied it, but a few weeks, on June 14, 1429 Jeanne d' Arc expelled after liberation of Orléans and from this position. 1461 François Villon was bischöflicherseits imprisoned for several months in the castle. He would have been almost hanged, had he not been the newly crowned King Louis XI. pardoned on the occasion of a visit.

In the 17th century the castle was abandoned and fell into disrepair. Louis XIV finally offered the Bishop Louis- Gaston Fleuriau d' Armenonville a large sum of money for the preservation of the property. The then carried out renovations and extensions were untouched the old towers and the original main building.

The Spanish reconnaissance, politician and author Pablo de Olavide had zururückgezogen in the time of the reign of terror, la Terreur during the French Revolution from 1791 until his arrest in 1794 here.

1791 auctioned Baron Jean -Jacques Lecoulteux, later founder of the Banque de France and mayor of Meung, the castle, the interior was changed radically in the 19th century. Today in the differently equipped, 21 rooms is to see different styles of music furniture.