La Brède castle La Brède / FRANCE description:This water castle in la Brède would be built during the 14th century, on the ruins of a still elder castle.
During renaissance the castle was adapted giving it a more 'open' character. You enter via a series of bridges that in the past were drawbridges.
Till the 17th century, it belonged in sequence to the families de La Lande, de l’Isle and Pesnel. In 1686, the castle and area became the property of the de Secondat family, because Marie-Françoise de Pesnel married Jacques de Secondat. Jacques de Secondat was Montesquieu's father. The countess Jacqueline de Chabannes, descendant of Denise, Montesquieu's youngest daughter, lived in the castle till her death in 2004. She had no children, and wanted to protect the castle and open it for visitors, which is why the founded the foundation Jacqueline de Chabannes.
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