The smallest of the Loire Valley châteaux

A 30-minute drive north of Saint-Aignan, and much closer to the famous Château de Cheverny, stands a building that the Cadogan guidebook for the Loire Valley says is really more a manor house (un manoir) than a château. It was built in the 15th and 16th centuries and "provides a good example of the architecture and living arrangements of the minor nobility of its period," the guidebook says.

Walt, Charles-Henry, and I visited Troussay back in July 2006.