Château de Plessis-lès-Tours (Du Plessis)

Described by John Evelyn during his visit as:

“We walked about two miles from the city to an agreeable solitude, called Du Plessis, a house belonging to the King. It has many pretty gardens, full of nightingales; and, in the chapel, lies buried the famous poet,”

In his footnote, Austin Dobson describes it as:

“The château of Plessis-lez-Tours, familiar in ch. iii. of Quentin Durward. It was built by Louis XI., who died there in 1483. Nothing but ruins now remain.”

In fact one wing remains standing.

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• Tuesday 7 June 1644

• Wikipedia entry on the Château de Plessis-lès-Tours (French)

• Wikipedia, site.