Château de Troussay

This is when Robert de Bugy, director of the salt storehouses of the region of Blois and squire of King Francis I of France was the recorded owner.

In 1732, for the first time, the building changed owners: the last Demoiselle de Bugy sold the château to the Pelluys family.

A friend of Prosper Mérimée and Félix Duban, he restored the château with the architect Louis de la Morandière [3] and incorporated decoration from other destroyed châteaux, according to his own motto "fort à l'abandon".

One finds linenfold there too, a Gothic motif par excellence, but also, on the door stop, a salamander, an emblem of François I.

Above, Louis de la Saussaye had engraved, in Greek, the sentence "Small is the house, but oh how much happiness, if it is filled with friends."

Modeled on the towers of the Louis XII wing of the Château de Blois, it shares their most notable characteristic: lattices of red and black bricks.

Other recovered sculptures were also mounted, in particular a porcupine, emblem of Louis XII, from l'hôtel Hurault de Cheverny in Blois and two sottise characters: the pope of fools and the insane mother.

The castle is privately owned and inhabited but six rooms on the ground floor are open to visitors: The ground floor is tiled throughout with red and yellow tiles dating from late 15th C.; only in the oval salon was it removed when the chateau was restored in the 19th C. The ceilings are of notable interest: in the Dining Room, the ceiling à la française is inspired by the François I wing of the Castle of Blois, it is beamed with painted decoration.

Found in the 19th century in a house in Fosse by Louis de la Saussaye, they were brought to Troussay and represent a sarabande of cupids, painted in grisaille.

Beneath the bust is engraved in Latin "do not contemplate in vain the effigy of Jean de Morvilliers, but rather seek to be the imitator of so great a man".

Noted pieces of furniture are perhaps a large armoire from Strasbourg dating from 1700 and a Louis XIII cabinet with marquetry of jasmine and tulip flowers.

The most remarkable object is the heavily decorated Renaissance oak door of the chapel, from the Château de Bury.

In front of the François I façade, stands a holly tree reputed to be more than five hundred years old, planted there according to the Solognote tradition to chase away miscreants with its prickles.