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The castle of Troussay, small manor house the Renaissance always lived, evokes at the same moment the wealth of the decoration of the castles of the Loire and the family and rural atmosphere of the small domain of Sologne of former days. It is situated in 3 km of the castle of Cheverny, in 8 km of the castle of Beauregard, and in 15 km of the castle of Blois. Built in the 15th century, in an exceptional fram of greenery, it is restored by the architect blésois Jules de la Morandière in the 19th century. The house is then enriched by decorations of a big interest stemming from the castle of Bury, from Onzain and of old hotels of Blois.
So, numerous elements of former decoration, a big artistic value, can admired beings there. Sculptures on stone which ornament facades and fireplaces, doors and wooden windows finely sculptured, painted ceilings (which that of the small lounge attributed to Jean Mosnier), the polychromatic stained glasses of the Renaissance. Without forgetting fireplace plates and former keys, stone floors Louis XII and the 16th, 17th, 18th furniture.
East of the castle, surrounded with a thick 150-year-old hedge of box tree, a kitchen garden arranged in square conceals of fruiterers, vegetables, flowers. The immense park invites you to admire its variety of remarkable tree as its cedars of Lebanon, cedars overalls, cedars of Virginia and this very former magnificent holm oak. The rural atmosphere of the small domain of Sologne of former days remains preserved by the arrangement in the picturesque dependences of a regional museum evoking the agricultural and domestic life of former days.
This small castle, was the house, in the last century, of the historian Louis de la Saussaye.
Exhibition : "the domestics in castles, formerly."
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