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{{Short description|Historic mansion in France}}
[[Image:Chateau de Bouges House and Basin.jpg|thumb|right|Facade and basin of the Château de Bouges]]
[[Image:Chateau de Bouges Cover Shot.jpg|thumb|right|The Château de Bouges]]
[[Image:Chateau de Bouges Flower Garden 1.jpg|thumb|right|Flower Garden of the Château de Bouges]]
The '''Château de Bouges''' ({{IPA|fr|ʃato də buʒ}}) is an 18th-century mansion in the town of [[Bouges-le-Château]], in the [[Indre]] ''[[Departments of France|département]]'' of France, in the [[Loire Valley]]. It is classified as a ''[[monument historique]]''<ref>{{Base Mérimée|PA00097284|Château de Bouges}}</ref> and the gardens are listed by the [[French Ministry of Culture|Ministry of Culture]] as among the [[Notable Gardens of France]].<ref>{{Base Mérimée|IA36001301|Jardin d'agrément et parc du château de Bouges}}</ref> The château and gardens are open to the public.

== History ==
The château was built in 1765, probably by [[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]], on lands acquired by Charles-François Leblanc de Manarval, the master of the royal forges and the director of the royal manufacturer of cloth in [[Châteauroux]]. The château was modelled after the [[Petit Trianon]] at the [[Palace of Versailles]]. In 1818, the château became the property of [[Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord]], the former foreign minister of [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]. Talleyrand put it at the disposition of his niece and, according to rumours, his one-time mistress, [[Dorothée de Courlande]] (1793-1862), who held successively the titles of Comtesse Edmond de Périgord (1809), Duchesse de Dino (1817), Duchesse de Talleyrand (1838) and finally Duchesse de Sagan (1845). She was also owner from 1828 à 1847 of the [[Château de Rochecotte]] at Saint-Patrice. The château was later purchased by Tunisian general Mahmoud Benaiad.

In 1917, the château was purchased by Henry Viguier and his wife, Renée Normant, who restored it, decorated and refurnished it. Viguier was the président-directeur-général of the Paris department store Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville. In addition to the château, he owned a Paris town house on the avenue Foch, a manor house in [[Houlgate]] and a villa in [[Grasse]]. The Viguiers, who had no children, left the house and its furniture to the French state in 1968.

The château and the park were location scenes in the film ''[[Le Colonel Chabert (1994 film)|Le Colonel Chabert]]'' with [[Gérard Depardieu]] and [[Fanny Ardant]].

The château has a park of eighty hectares, which include a landscape garden, an [[arboretum]], a floral garden created in 1920, large greenhouses, and a formal French garden. It also includes large stables which were later used as garages by the last owners.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.chateau-bouges.fr/en/ Château de Bouges], Centre des Monuments Nationaux
* [http://www.parcsetjardins.fr/centre/indre/parc_et_jardins_de_bouges-208.html Photos of the gardens, from the site of the French National Committee of Parks and Gardens]
* {{Base Mérimée|PA00097284|Château de Bouges}}
* {{Base Mérimée|IA36001301|Jardin d'agrément et parc du château de Bouges}}

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[[Category:Châteaux of the Loire Valley]]
[[Category:Châteaux in Indre]]
[[Category:Gardens in Indre]]
[[Category:Historic house museums in Centre-Val de Loire]]
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[[Category:Monuments historiques of Indre]]
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