Chateauroux

Chateauroux is the capital of the Indre department in number one France and the second-biggest city within the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its citizens are referred to as Castelroussins. The vintage city, close to the river, office work a nucleus spherical which a more moderen and further full-size region, bordered by means of boulevards, has grown up; the suburbs of St. Christophe and Deols lie at the right bank of the Indre.

The fortress from which the metropolis takes its name have become built within the latter part of the 10th century with the aid of Raoul, prince of Deols. From 920 to 1008, the Norman raids forced the monks of the abbey of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, founded in Brittany via Saint Gildas, to deliver his relics to the abbey of Saint-Gildas of Chateauroux that they primarily based beneath the safety of the prince Ebbes of Deols, father of Raoul.

During the Middle Ages it become the seat of a seigniory, which surpassed to the Chauvigny from 1207 to 1473 and modified into raised to the rank of countship in 1497 for Jean V d'Aumont. In 1616, even as it have become held with the resource of Henry II, Prince of Conde, it have become raised to the rank of duchy. In 1736 it lower back to the crown, and was given to Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchess of Chateauroux, by means of the use of Louis XV in 1744. The present Chateau Raoul housing the prefecture places of work dates from the 15th century.