The stairway is small but lets in a lot of light.
Both upper levels had a hallway and flowers.
This is the bedroom of the five Queens. Five women were raised here who went on to be influential and powerful wives of kings.
The ceiling is very detailed.
Catherine de Medici's bedroom.
The estampes room with drawings of the chateau through the ages.
A side room to the estampes room.
Cesar of Vendome's bedroom.
The next floor's main hall.
This is Louise Lorraine's bedroom. She heard about her husband, King Henri the third, dying here and turned it into a convent. She also wore white, the color of morning, until her death.
It has images of the royal cornet issuing tears and the symbol of death as a repeating motif here.
A portrait of her husband in in a corner shrine here.
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