Château de l’Oisellerie – Wikipedia

The Château de l’Oisellerie is located in the town of La Couronne, near Angoulême in the French department of Charente. Dating XVI ^{It is} And XVII ^{It is} A centuries, it now houses the agricultural high school of L’Oisellerie and the Departmental Center for Educational Documentation (National Education).

In 1267, the count of Angoulême ^{[ 3 ]} give way to the crown abbey. His name would come from a falconry installed there. Indeed, this fief of the abbots was halfway between the abbey and the forest of the monks which covered the whole north of the town of the Crown and belonged to the abbey.

The construction of the castle begins in 1498 with what is now a gable wing decorated with gargoyles and Gothic style hooks, with in the middle of the facade, the square turret containing the screw staircase. She is undertaken by Arnauld Calluaud, alderman of Angoulême, of the time of Louise de Savoie, countess of Angoulême and mother of King François I ^is . Arnaud had three sons, Guillaume, André and Jean. Guillaume became a prosecutor general of François i ^is And Jean, bishop of Senlis and abbot of the crown, enlarges and embellishes the castle. He increased it with a main building and the round tower.

In 1526, François I ^is Back from Spain where he was a prisoner, came to rest in his province of Angoumois and stayed in the castle. During a deer hunt, he broke an arm ^{[ 4 ]} .

Jean Calluaud, ruined, especially by a dispute with the Abbey of the Crown, sold the castle, in 1678, to Jean de Tiers, sieur de la Rochette, then on February 12, 1691 to François Maulde, adviser to the presidial of Angoulême ^{[ 4 ]} for an amount of 25 000 books ^{[ 5 ]} . The Maulde family will keep it for two centuries ^{[ 6 ]} .

Around 1900 settled a school of agriculture then transformed into an agricultural high school ^{[ 7 ]} .

Since 1989, the castle belongs to the General Council. This one decides to have a media library in the Departmental Center for Educational Documentation of La Charente installed ^{[ 8 ]} .

The castle was classified as a historic monument in 1911 ^{[ first ]} .

Two turrets form the angles of the primitive court; They found their pepper roofs and one is taken in the outbuildings. The entrance gate has a pedestrian door and a rider surmounted by merlons and slots. The main building is located in the courtyard ^{[ 9 ]} .

The first castle which constitutes the west wing (1517) is a upstairs building, with a steep roof covered with flat tiles; A square turret that contains the screw staircase presents later slots ^{[ ten ]} .

A square pavilion was built later, by which the junction with the other wing takes place, by a great degree. His high silhouette called him, to XVII ^{It is} And XVIII ^{It is} centuries the “keep” ^{[ 5 ]} .

The large north wing, the big cylindrical tower and the rectangular pavilion are the third quarter of the XVI ^{It is} century. A gallery, built around 1600, makes it possible to join the two main building ^{[ 5 ]} .

Some of the roofs are covered with flat tiles, others of slates.

The interior design was widely taken up in the years 1754-59, by the Malaude family, to adapt the house to the new comfort requirements ^{[ 5 ]} .

The sundial, dating from XVII ^{It is} or Xviiii ^{It is} century, is the subject of a classification of the subject of Historic Monuments ^{[ 11 ]} .

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  Inner courtyard (partial view)

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• Association Promotion Patrimoine, Philippe Floris ( you. ) and Pascal House ( you. ), Castles, Manors and Logis: La Charente , Patron & Media editions, 1993 , 499 p. (ISBN  978-2-910137-05-2 And 2-910137-05-8 , Online presentation )
• History of the Calluaud, lords of the Eisellerie and other places (Pre-study written by Louis Adrien Toussaint)

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