Château du Plessis-Bourré

Built in less than 5 years from 1468 to 1472 by Finance Minister Jean Bourré, the principal advisor to King Louis XI.

The château has not been modified externally since its construction and still has a fully working drawbridge.

Château du Plessis-Bourré was once owned by La Maison De Nuchèze.

see the De Nuchèze wiki for more info The château was purchased in 1911 by Henry Vaïsse who, when he died in 1956, bequeathed it to his nephew, François Reille-Soult, Duke of Dalmatie, descendant of the marshals of the French empire Soult, Reille and Masséna.

They lived there with their three children, Victor (1976), Matthias (1978), and Jean-Baptiste (1980), for 31 years, the longest stay of a single family since 1473.