My name is Lord of Plaisance

Today, this bedroom offers a completly new and modern comfort perfectly integrated : luxury large queen size Bed (160 cm wide), top hotel high quality standards. And a very original bathroom...with roman mosaic and travertine marble, wooden panellings painted with local chateaux paintings (..Amboise, Chinon, Tours, and Loches, of course.. )

Its large window offer views, over our inside 15th century cobbled yard and Renaissance staircase tower.
As direct views around, towards very close Royal Chateau of Loches and Roman Cathedral Saint-Ours, where Agnes Sorel is resting.

Our long restoration of this bedroom took more than 10 years, with work and patience, to recover or find many details.
We centered mid-18th century, on years 1750 to 1823, for furnitures styles (Régence, Louis XV, Marie-Antoinette floral).
Repainted all the wooden panellings, with golden patterns, included their Heights with 12 galant tapestries (describing the History of the nobility from "fields lords", up to that of the "Cour du Roy" )
For the ceiling, we sculpted, molded, duplicated and glued more than 150 pieces of plaster and stucco of florals and cherubs. All the baroque spirit of 18th century Romanticism is back, sometimes libertine.
Its "bouillote" table, its "Marie-Antoinette" chest of drawers, and bedside tables, finely inlaid with colored flowers and adorned with fine chiseled bronzes, adorned with white, gray and ocher marble...We pushed the detail to the point of making our lampshades ourselves, from period engravings, as with all our decorative work.


" .. about Touraine ? we love it as an artist loves art .. " H.Balzac, The lilly in the Valley, 1835

1750 - 1823: 73 years in the history of the house

Jacques Grellet de Plaisance, Knight of Graleuil, Lord of Plaisance, and his wife Antoinette de Touvelot, lived here, through this incredible Revolution era, both tragic and romantic. The name of this room is a tribute to them, for their memory.

In 1750, father of "Jacques Grellet de Plaisance", bought the property "Maison de l'Argentier du Roy" for his birth, and offered it to his son for his wedding day in 1775
In 1789, Jacques was close to the King Louis XVI, Captain in the "Royal Brie regiment", and very exposed; he was sentenced to death in 1791, and had to flee, he narrowly emigrated to England, ...but...
By a clever stratagem, with his wife, they will save their House from the revolutionary furies.
His wife remained in Loches and benefited from the first freedom laws of the French Revolution (including those of divorce and property rights). She requests, and obtains, a divorce under her birth name (without particles) as Antoinette Touvelot... And to keep the House, as compensation.
In the midst of the "terror era", of 1793... ingenious! and effective, because the "citizen Touvelot" will have, through this clever plan, probably saved the "heads" of the 4 towers of the House - other symbols of power hated by the most "ultra" revolutionaries, and thus avoided damage to the house, by all the mad people of the moment. (Those who destroyed the white marble sculpture of the recumbent figure of Agnès Sorel, and threw her bones in the gardens of the Abbey Church..)
Terrible time, very dangerous, and violent, it was certainly difficult for a single woman.
However, Jacques and Antoinette continued to write to each other a lot.
In the year VIII (revolution new calendar), i.e. 1799, Bonaparte overthrew "the directory" governement . Jacques Grellet is amnestied and returns.! after 8 years of forced exile.
Together, they will cancel their divorce, and will live another 22 years, their love in this House, until their death. (in 1821 for him, and 1823 for her...only 2 years later, with unbearable grief).
A Beautiful Story in the Great History, witnesses of an incredible era...that was this exalted end of the 18th century