Milly-le-Meugon

Milly-le-Meugon is a village now attached to the city of Gennes, Maine-et-Loire department, France.

It is also the site of a castle, which also belonged to the Maillé-Brézé family, a notable family of the French nobility with close ties to King Louis XIII's powerful minister, the Cardinal Richelieu, and to King Louis XIV's first cousin le Grand Condé.

Claire-Clémence married the Grand Condé, thus becoming a French princess.

Her brother, the duke of Fronsac, was one of the most heroic figures of the time; both of them were born at Milly.

The outer bailey main gate (partially rusticated in vermiculated fashion), the monumental stable and walls were all erected during the French Renaissance; the later castle main building, in Italian Renaissance style (with its gate of honor), dates partly from the late 16th century, but was completely reshaped in 1835 by a German architect, Svenberg.