See also:

• CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

CHATEAU (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)  , the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French word for See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle (q.v.) . The development of the See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval castle, in the 15th and 16th centuries, into houses arranged rather for See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence than See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence led to a corresponding widening of the meaning of the See also:

• TERM

term See also:

• CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

chateau, which came to be applied to any seigniorial residence and so generally to all houses, especially See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country houses, of any pre-tensions (cf. the Ger . Schloss) . The French distinguish the fortified castle from the residential See also:

• MANSION (through O. Fr. mansion, mod. maison, from Lat. mansio, dwelling-place, stage on a journey; manere, to remain)

mansion by describing the former as the chateau fort, the latter as the chateau de plaisance . The development of the one into the other is admirably illustrated by surviving buildings in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, especially in the chateaux scattered along the See also:

• LOIRE

Loire . Of these See also:

• LANGEAIS

Langeais, still in perfect preservation, is a See also:

• FINE

fine type of the chateau fort, with its loth-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century keep and 13th-century walls . See also:

• AMBOISE
• AMBOISE, GEORGES

Amboise (1490), See also:

• BLOIS

Blois (1500–1540) , See also:

• CHAMBORD
• CHAMBORD, HENRI CHARLES FERDINAND MARIE DIEUDONNE, COMTE DE (182o-1883)

Chambord (begun 1526), See also:

• CHENONCEAUX

Chenonceaux (1515–156o), Azay-le-Rideau (1521), may be taken as typical examples of the chateau de plaisance of the transition See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, all retaining in greater or less degree some of the architectural characteristics of the medieval castle . Some description of these is given under their several headings . In See also:

• ENGLISH

English the word chateau is often used to translate See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign words (e.g . Schloss) meaning country See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house or mansion . For the Loire chateaux see See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

Theodore See also:

• ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348)

Andrea See also:

• COOK
• COOK, ALBERT STANBURROUGH (1853– )
• COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (1829–1883)
• COOK, ELIZA (1818–1889)
• COOK, JAMES (1728-1779)
• COOK, THOMAS (1808-1892)

Cook, Old See also:

• TOURAINE

Touraine (1892) .