Talcy (Loir-et-Cher)
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Loir-et-Cher | |
| Arrondissement | Blois | |
| Canton | La Beauce | |
| Community association | Beauce Val de Loire | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 46 ′ N , 1 ° 27 ′ E | |
| height | 107-126 m | |
| surface | 15.21 km 2 | |
| Residents | 243 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 16 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 41370 | |
| INSEE code | 41253 | |
 Aerial view of the place |
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Talcy is a French municipality with 243 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Loir-et-Cher in the region Center-Val de Loire . It is located about 20 kilometers northeast of Blois and is therefore on the outer edge of the Loire Valley in the fertile Beauce .
history
Domain as the origin
Talcy was first mentioned in 1221 when it was a seigneury . The domain belonged to the St. Lazare family from Beaugency , to which the roots of today's Talcy Castle also go back .
History of the lords of the castle
The actual history of the castle begins with the Florentine merchant and banker Bernhard Salviati, who acquired the property in 1517, albeit without being able to exercise sovereign rights. He was in the service of Franz I and was a relative of Catherine de Medici by marriage . He gave the castle its current appearance through renovations and extensions.
The castle in the middle of the village looks rather simple and very strict on the outside, while the inner courtyard resembles that of a large estate. It is also known less for its architecture than for its residents. Two beautiful daughters of the Salviati family went down in literary history as muses of the writers Pierre de Ronsard and Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné : Cassandre Salviati and her niece Diane.
In 1562, Talcy Castle played a major role in French history for a few days, because on June 28 and 29 the regent Catherine de Medici and her underage son Charles IX met there. with representatives of the Huguenots such as Antoine de Bourbon and Louis I. de Bourbon for the so-called Conference of Talcy. During this meeting, the two parties tried unsuccessfully to put an end to the clashes between Catholics and Huguenots in the French kingdom.
The French state secures the existence
The plant remained in the possession of the Salviatis until 1667, later three generations of the Burgeat family owned it. The last owner was Valentine Stapfer, sister of the Swiss diplomat Philipp Albert Stapfer . After she died of old age, the heirs sold the property to the French state in 1933, but agreed in the purchase contract that the furniture, wallpaper and tapestries that had been preserved could not be removed from the castle. The facility owes its exceptionally complete interior design to this contractual clause.
Other sights
Right next to the palace complex is the Saint-Martin church, a single-nave hall building with a polygonal choir closure from the 16th century: windows with tracery in the flamboyant style; 16th century bells; Altar and altarpiece from the 18th century.
In the area around Talcy there is the " Menhir de la Sixtre". There are also remains of buildings from Gallo-Roman times. At the entrance to the village there is a preserved windmill typical of the region.
Saint Martin Church
Saint Martin Church - interior
Preserved windmill
literature
- Bernard Champigneulle: Loire castles . Prestel Verlag, Munich 1977, p. 32, ISBN 3-7913-0276-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Château de Talcy on coeur-de-france.com ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
