Use in Film and Television
The house and its grounds were used as the home of the main villain Hugo Drax (played by Michael Lonsdale) in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. In addition, the chateau appeared in several episodes of The Revolution, which is a documentary television series about the American Revolutionary War that was broadcast by History in 2006. It can also be seen in the background in the film The Man in the Iron Mask.
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