When was it built? No-one knows. Some sources say parts date from the 1100s. Others say that it was built in the 1300s as a Watch Tower. The consensus is the second half of the fifteenth century which makes it the oldest house in Amboise.

In 1494 Leonardo da Vinci started working for Ludovico Sforza, the duke of Milan.

Dendrologists, who study the growth patterns and structures of trees, say that Leonardo's Rule of Trees is spot on.

Renoir's birthday, 25 February

On 24 February 1848 news came from Paris that King Louis-Philippe had abdicated.

On 18 February 1478, George, duke of Clarence was murdered in the Tower of London on the orders of his brother Edward IV, king of England. Families!

Biographies have been written about Louise of Savoy and her children Marguerite of Angoulème and Francis I but few, if any, point out their cruel sides.

Marguerite was born in 1492 in Angoulême. Her mother, Louise of Savoy, was sixteen. Her father, Charles, Count of Angoulême, a member of the House of Valois-Angoulême, was thirty-three.