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Manor of the Bscalery à Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire en Indre-et-Loire

Patrimoine classé
Demeure seigneuriale
Manoir
Indre-et-Loire

Manor of the Bscalery

    Manoir de la Béchellerie
    37540 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
Crédit photo : Auteur inconnuUnknown author - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
vers 1619
Initial construction
1752
Sale to widow Bellanger
1914-1924
Residence of Anatole France
3 mars 1941
Registration for historical monuments
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Manoir de La Bachellerie : inscription by order of 3 March 1941

Key figures

Beschel - Initial constructor Owner and builder around 1619.
Noël Girollet - Owner Chanoine Former owner before 1752.
Veuve Bellanger - Owner in 1752 Buyer of the mansion that year.
P. Besnardeau - Mayor of Saint-Cyr Later owner, local function.
Louis-Eugène Porcherot - Mayor of Saint-Cyr in 1867 Owner and political personality.
Anatole France - Resident writer He lived there from 1914 to 1924.

Origin and history

The Manor House of La Bélagerie, located in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire), is a building originally built by Beschel around 1619. He changed owners several times, notably in 1752, when the widow Bellanger acquired. The main house body, flanked by two pavilions and surrounded by terraced gardens, reflects a typical architecture of the second half of the eighteenth century.

In the 19th century, the mansion passed into the hands of local personalities, including P. Besnardeau and Louis-Eugène Porcherot, both mayors of Saint-Cyr. He gained a special reputation in the 20th century when the writer Anatole France lived there from 1914 until his death in 1924. This place, marked by its literary history, was inscribed in historical monuments in 1941.

The communes, organized in return for square, and the gardens overlooking the valley complete this architectural ensemble. The mansion illustrates both the evolution of bourgeois residences in Touraine and their role in French cultural life, thanks in particular to the presence of Anatole France, Nobel Prize winner of literature.

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