Château de Candé

[1] François Briçonnet, the mayor of Tours and state treasurer, purchased the fief in 1499[2] and built a Renaissance house on the site of the old fortress.

[5] M. Drake del Castllo also founded a free school for some sixty young girls, in the valley between the château and the railway right-of-way.

[6] In 1927, Charles Bedaux, a Franco-American industrial millionaire, and his wife Fern, purchased the castle from Jean Drake del Castillo, the grandson of Santiago.

Bedaux installed a telephone, which at the time was unique in a French residence; it was directly connected to the exchange in Tours, and therefore required an operator to be present in the castle.

In 1937, the marriage of the Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII), and Wallis Simpson, conducted by the Reverend Robert Anderson Jardine, took place here.