This is a photo of Castle of Chaumont. It was founded by Odo I (973-996), Count of Blois. The castle has changed ownership many times over it's history. Many people of the enlightenment and romantic periods have been guests at the castle including: Juliette Récamier (1777-1849) - a French socialite whose salon drew people from the leading literary and political circles of early 1800s Paris. She is considered an icon of neoclassicism, cultivated a public persona as a great beauty, befriended many intellectuals, sat for the finest artists of the time, and spurned an offer of marriage from Prince Augustus of Prussia. Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) - a German poet, writer, and botanist.  Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) - Swiss/French thinker, activist, and writer of political theory and religion.  Chaumont itself has a population of 1100 people and is a commune and town in the Loir-et-Cher department and the administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire.