Château de Combourg

[1] The castle stands on a small hill next to Lac Tranquille ("Lake Tranquil") in the town of Combourg.

[1] The castle was made famous by François-René de Chateaubriand, the renowned French writer and politician, whose family had acquired the property in 1761, and it is where he spent part of his childhood.

Chateaubriand wrote in his Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, "I became what I am in the woods of Combourg."

The project was led by a prominent French architect, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, whose other restorations included the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, the medieval city of Carcassonne, and the castles of Pierrefonds and Vincennes.

Privately owned, the castle is listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.