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The Pigeonnier at Chateau de Brézé has 3700 pigeon holes. Pigeonniers aka Dovecotes may be free-standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in the Middle East and Europe and were kept for their eggs and dung. The Castle Breze is a castle of the xvi th century, in the town eponymous , in the department of Maine-et-Loire , ten kilometers south of Saumur . The particularity of the castle of Brézé lies in its troglodyte network located under the castle and in the ditches, comprising both parts of everyday life (bakery, stable, silkworm ) and military (drawbridge, walkway). The castle has been classified as a Historic Monument since the6 mars 19791. The Château de Brézé is a private property belonging to Karine and Jean de Colbert, the latter being the son of the late Count Bernard de Colbert and the late Marquise Charlotte de Dreux-Brézé.
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France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.Text by Steve Smith.
