Country France Department Eure-et-Loir Canton La Ferté-Vidame Area 39.81 km² | Region Centre-Val de Loire Arrondissement Dreux Intercommunality L'Orée du Perche | |
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La Ferté-Vidame is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
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Map of 28340 La Fert%C3%A9-Vidame, France
History
The title of vidame of Chartres was, under the Ancien Régime, attached to the lands of [La] Ferté-Arnault. Among the famous men to bear the title vidame de Chartres were the English soldier Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales (d. 1460), Jean de Ferrieres, and the memoirist Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon. The chateau was Saint-Simon's main country house. At the French Revolution the seigneur was Jean-Joseph de Laborde, an ennobled business man with progressive views, who was to be guillotined in 1794.
Castle
The Château de la Ferté-Vidame was substantially rebuilt by the architect Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier in 1771. It is now a roofless shell.
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